12 great tutorials on creating a new Wordpress Theme I am very much impressed with wordpress and keep on discussing about wordpress in my various posts on reencoded these days. Thanks for appreciating 85 Beautiful Free WordPress Themes, 26 Free WordPress Photo Gallery Themes, 20 great WordPress Footer Designs, 30 great uses of WordPress and 23 WordPress Themes for your Website. There are countless designers developers using wordpress for blogging and as a CMS for their website. Some of them use to go for paid themes, some like to customize free themes according to their need and some love to create a new wordpress theme from scratch. To help desingers entering into the wordpress world I would like to share some tutorials which can help creating a new worpdress theme from scratch. So here is a list of 12 great tutorials on creating a new WordPress Theme. How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch So you want to create WordPress themes huh? How to Create a WordPress Theme from Scratch The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial
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28 Ways to Make Money with Your Website by Daniel Scocco There are several lists with “ways to make money with a website” on the Internet, but none of them seem to be complete. That is why I decided to create this one. If you know a method that is not listed below, just let us know and we’ll update it. Notice that ways to make money with a website are different from ways to make more money from it. Methods to increase your traffic or click-through rate will help you make more money, but they do not represent a method of making money per se. For example, one could suggest that blending AdSense ads with the content is a way to make money from a website. The list is divided into direct and indirect methods, and examples and links are provided for each point. Direct Methods 1. Google AdSense is the most popular option under this category, but there are also others. The source of the traffic can also affect the overall CTR rate. List of popular CPC advertising networks: 2. List of popular CPM advertising networks: 3. Related links: 4.
Rick Sammon What Twitter and Facebook's 2009 Trends Tell Us About Ourselves The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space. As the year comes to a close, several social media companies decided to take a look back and reflect on the events, people, technologies that captured our interest this year. Twitter took the first crack when it revealed the most discussed topics of 2009. Both reports are interesting and have a lot of useful information, yet nobody's really taken the time to analyze just what these trends mean. First, A Recap of Facebook and Twitter's Top Trends of 2009 Before you start reading this week's column, please make sure to take a good, long look at this year's top trends for Facebook and Twitter. First, Twitter's 2009 trending topics: Here are Facebook's top status trends: 1. The #3 trend on Facebook? As we all now know, we dodged a bullet, for H1N1 proved not to be any more deadly than most common flu variants. 2. 3. 4.
Wordpress : ressources PDF | Webdeez Une fois n’est pas coutume, Webdeez vous propose plusieurs documents d’explications et de conseils au format PDF pour mieux gérer un site ou un blog sous WordPress. Ces 4 feuilles indispensables sont en anglais – ou en allemand (Je n’ai pas voulu les traduire car le code de la plateforme de WordPress étant en anglais aussi, il sera ainsi plus facile de repérer les expressions auxquelles se rapportent les conseils). Ces PDF vous proposent tout d’abord un document très important, puisqu’il s’agit d’une check list (ou comment faire le point et ne rien oublier pour créer un blog/site sous wordpress), des informations sur la plateforme WordPress, qui compose le squelette du blog/site, des explications sur les expressions que l’on retrouve dans les thèmes et templates WordPress, des conseils dur le référencement (SEO) de votre blog, histoire de ne pas être complètement inconnu des moteurs de recherche comme Google ou Yahoo . – Source : wptoy.com – Source : wpcandy.com – Source : bueltge.de
350+ Fresh Twitter Icons Twitter has grown a lot and so has the number of twitter icons. My previous collection contained more than 400 twitter icons. This collection is equally huge with really great illustrations by some really good designers and more than 350 twitter icons. This list is for twitter geeks and addicts, for all the bloggers, webmasters and web designers. Revenus et audience de la blogsphère francophone - état des lieu Cet article fait un petit état des lieux sur l'audience et le chiffre d'affaires générés par les blogs francophones du domaine de la hight-tech (hormis quelques exceptions) les plus importants. 1. Ce qui est bon à savoir avant de commencer Je tiens d'abord à faire quelques précisions, notamment sur le chiffre d'affaires réalisé par certains Webmasters. Il faut que l'on soit tous d'accord, il ne s'agit pas ici d'un revenu net, mais bel et bien du total des ventes de services facturés par le blogeur. Il est donc bien évident, que pour la plupart d'entre eux, il ne leurs reste pas grand chose une fois qu'ils ont payé les frais d'hébergement (serveurs dédiés, noms de domaine, ...), les charges (50% en générale, exemple : Urssaf, CSG, impôts sur le bénéfice) et tous les autres frais annexes (design, campagnes de pubs, déplacements aux différentes réunions, frais de justice, amendes ...). La grande majorité ont d'ailleurs des revenus nets négatifs. 2. Voici donc les chiffres tant attendus. 3. 4.