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Though Google hits from people searching with keywords H1 Visa, H1-B and all sorts of are still welcome. Why because most of these people are tech oriented [I guess] and are welcome to http://contents-magic.com/.

This post is however not about H1 visa. It is about the Importance of H1 tags in your WordPress theme. Most People don’t realize when they design their themes that there are things beyond the title tags and URL that affect your page ranking in search engines. [Find more →]

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If you are running a blog, and mostly like you are, then you should always keep a test site of your blog. This test site will serve the very important purpose of testing changes that you might be interested in making. [Find more →]

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So my client want me to do the following :

I want to run a poll on my web site, as often as I want. I want run the poll in the sidebar of the front page only. I want to have a polls archive page where all the polls can be archived.

Simple enough. But I had no idea of how polls works or what polling software are available. So I had to go through a learning curve. And I am writing this article for you so that you don’t have to go through the same. [Find more →]

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I was triggered by an article More People use Win98 then Vista.To find the latest stats on different trends of browsers, operating systems, screen resolution etc, I keep on visiting Browser Stats Page of W3 School. However the trends on this page are a general snap shot. It may not give me the best picture of the audience I am serving.

The w3 schools suggest that 54% of the users are using 1024×768 [till Jan 07] . The stats is too old now and more importantly it is for a general audience.
It should not be a surprise [anymore] that different audience group use very different technology. This revelation came to me once I checked the screen resolution stats a while back. [Find more →]

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In our previous article of this series, we talked about a few general Steps to Create Your Own WordPress Theme. In this article we will go a bit deeper and see a few things practically. Since Graphic Design is not the main area I work in, we would not talk mainly about that. We will continue in this article from the point what you receive from your graphic designer.

Your graphic designer will provide you a set of html and psd files. In this article we will generate the php code for the most important file of your theme, index.php. So Lets dive into action. [Find more →]

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Are Links Counter Intuitive points towards this, and this is nothing new for anyone who is reading anything one the in last little while. Whenever you read any document on the web you do see a number of links in the document.

For some of us this is a blessing when links are external. You can see more contents from more sources and therefore chances are that the material you are reading is more authentic if it has external references. [Find more →]

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Comments are great for any blogger. Comments tell your visitor within a glance that your thought are not isolated. There are people sharing there are ideas with you. They tell you what they like. They tell you what they dislike.

If traffic is like blood to your blog, then comment are the white cells. There are definite attacks on the blogs with spam comment. For this a while back the invented ‘rel=nofollow’ attribute. Although the three major search engines Google, Yahoo, and Ask all take different meaning for ‘rel=nofollow’, it still works in discouraging spammers trying to put their links on your site. It works perfectly for forums at least.

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Well I am not. But are you ? According to the quiz I scored 21/30, and thus I got the title of warlock. What is yours?

Are You an Internet Security Wizard?

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A while back I had this problem. binary moon inspired me to solve the issue and I guess this is worth sharing amongst wordpress enthusiast. While creating any WordPress themes, designers generally hard code the main pages navigation to a few general pages like front pages or archives etc. The obvious reason for this is that you cant predict which pages are available with any WordPress blog. [Find more →]

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Creating a WordPress theme is not quite as hard as one might think. Since you are reading this article I assume you are a either a web developer and want to know how to create your own theme or you are running a blog and want some one to create a theme for you. If you belong to the later category this article will help you in knowing what to communicate to your theme designer. In this article I am talking about what you must know before you actually create a theme. In next articles I will go deeper to actually create a fully functional theme step by step.

Before You Begin

Here is the high level plan. Before you start developing your theme, you must decide a few very important things. [Find more →]

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