Simplified Microformats for Your WordPress Website

by admin on January 10, 2012 in WordPress with No comments
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Microformats are a set of open data and standardized formats designed for human readers and robots. Microformats.org says, “Microformats are design principles of formats adapted to current usage patterns and behaviors. These are highly correlated with semantic XHTML and semantic Web.” Microformats provide a clear structure to your Website making it more accessible & readable by both visitors and search engine robots. Nowadays, the major search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask & Blekko are giving more preference to Websites having Microformats. Thus each Webmaster is focusing to use this new ME for his/her Website, but they have to perform the manual HTML Markup coding to add Microformats. However if you are using a CMS like WordPress, the work to add Microformats become much easier. Phew! – Yes, WordPress offers XFN annotation of internally-stored links by default and allows you to add few plugins to add more Microformats. In this write up, we will discuss how to add the Microformats in your WordPress Website. Continue reading →

Following Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WACG 2.0) in WordPress

by admin on December 30, 2011 in WordPress with No comments
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WACG) is not a new thing for us still let me reiterate its definition here to start the article flow. WACG is a part of series of Web Accessibility Guidelines published by W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. These guidelines are especially crafted for the disabled persons so that they can access the World Wide Web in a much convenient way. The first version of these Guidelines, i.e., WACG 1.0 was published on May 5, 1999 and the latest version WACG 2.0 was launched on December 11, 2008. WACG 2.0 has core 4 principles and 73 guidelines. It may not be possible for us to iterate each one’s solution here. However, we will try our best to include the most important guidelines and the solutions to follow them in this write up. Continue reading →

Important Considerations While Naming a Blog

by admin on September 3, 2011 in Blogging, WordPress with 3 Comments
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Name your Blog the Right Way: Some Useful Considerations

Gone are the days when it was a common saying ‘What’s in a name?’ In the Web world, the name matters a lot and cannot be ignored for it leads to the establishment of an Identity. Bloggers often in a hurry to start blogging, choose whatever that comes to their mind as blog name. Whereas, the right thing to do is spending some time to select an attractive, catchy and relevant blog name. Continue reading →

Is it a Breeze to Integrate Facebook in My Website?

by admin on August 24, 2011 in Blogging with 6 Comments
Integrate Facebook in Website
Today, we are using online society to mark our Website presence in the largest crowd, to promote it, to join with our subscribers/followers/readers, and to sale the services/products. Facebook is the biggest social networking hub available online with 600 million active users, and more than 900 million objects to interact with. In addition, 250+ million users are accessing Facebook through mobile. If you integrate your Website with Blog irrespective of its niche, then it is sure that you are on a stage where you can address more than 600 million users at a time and notify the search engines that you have a social identity on the largest online network in the World. So, how you can do this? There are few steps for that and very first is to integrate the Facebook on your Website. Is it easy to do that? Yes, who said it is difficult and you need prior experience and technical knowledge for this. Let us start now. Continue reading →

Creating Mobile Version of a WordPress Website

by admin on August 3, 2011 in WordPress with 9 Comments
Creating Mobile Version of WordPress Website
For the last 4 years, the Internet is being accessed more by mobile handsets than through computers. In 2009, the count of Mobile Internet population had reached the half population on this earth. This year ITU reported that number of Mobile Internet Subscribers reached to 4.6 billion, out of which 3.8 billion activated mobile handsets were in use and 3.4 billion were unique mobile phone users. In 2010, BBC reported that there were more than 5 billion active mobile phone users in the World. In Asian countries like India, most of the Internet users had their very first usage on mobile phone. Seeking these statistics, one must understand to have a mobile version its Website for heavy traffic and more chances to become popular in the online world. One can use Wireless Markup Language (WML) to code the mobile version of his/her Website. Handling the WML is a tedious task, but you can make it simple if you are using WordPress. In this write up, we will discuss the ways to create mobile version of a WordPress Website and tools to monitor your mobile Website through Mobile. Continue reading →
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