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Make your own Free Easy Favicons
By admin | January 2, 2008
Click for free icon creator:
Now Also Includes Animation and Scrolling Text Options!
Please use a ‘jpg’, ‘gif’ or ‘png’ for the creation.. save it with the many options..
A favicon (short for ‘favorites icon’), also known as a website icon, a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. A web designer can create such an icon, and many recent web browsers can then make use of them. Browsers that support favicons may display them in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page’s title in a tabbed document interface.
The original means of defining a favicon was by placing a file called favicon.ico in the root directory of a webserver. This would then automatically be used in Internet Explorer’s favorites (bookmarks) display. Later, however, a more flexible system was created, using (X)HTML to indicate the location of an icon for any given page. This is achieved by adding two link elements in the <head> section of the document as detailed below. In this way, any appropriately sized (16×16 pixels or larger) image can be used, and although many still use the ICO format, other browsers now also support the animated GIF and PNG image formats.
(replacing ‘example’ with your site info):
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon"><link rel="icon" href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">
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FireFox Detective on Download.Com
By admin | October 11, 2007
The original FireFox Detective is now on Download.Com, easy to install and transparent to current FireFox Users, its a great way to make a statement for the best browser available.
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Incorporating a Forum into Your Wordpress Blog
By admin | September 1, 2007
If you are thinking about adding a forum to your WP blog, heres some helpful information and some tips.
There are several options here, two main ones:
Integrating External Forum Software:
There are plugins and documentation to use Simple Machines Forum (SMF) and combine your Wordpress userbase and make the two work together, there are at least two plugins available to simplify this procedure. The documentation is extensive and a bit complex.
For other popular forums, (such as phpBB) there are some plugins and documentation, but no complete integration package as far as I can tell.
Integrating Internal Forum Software:
These are more light weight, but provide easy setup and configuration, as they are simply Wordpress plugins..
There are at least two available:
RS Discuss - a beta release without a lot of documentation.
XDForum - in use here, is very easy to configure and blends in well with the overall theme of a WP blog.
Whether you’re looking for a full-featured external forum software (e.g. SMF, Vanilla) to integrate, or just a WordPress forum plugin (RS Discuss or XDForum). Obviously, the latter will be easier to setup, though there are several other factors you will want to consider. Mainly, an external forum software will have an entire community working on it - meaning that they’ll have a whole host of add-ons/plugins which a WP forum plugin won’t have, and your questions will generally be answered faster. External forum software is usually more stable and extendable as well.
from the forum
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