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Partial Feed for the Rest of this Month

hso — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:09:40 +0000

I will be experimenting with partial feeds for the rest of this month. The splogger issues with my content is not yet resolved. I know switching to partial feed is going ass backwards and will inconvenience those who read my blogs on readers, but bear with me while I figure a work around. Copyright © 2008 [...]

SEO Friendly Images to Replace Text in Navigation Menus

hso — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:20:03 +0000

Using images in place of text can be tempting especially since an image can offer you more visually than just text does. However, most of us end up using text for the simple reason that Google and Yahoo’s search engines are not able to read your images effectively (even with alt text?). Here’s a quick, [...]

Who is Stealing your Mojo? RSS Feed Scraping, Splogs and How to Fight them

hso — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:14:03 +0000

If your site gets any traffic at all, chances are your RSS feed is scraped and misused by some one trying to score on SERP for the work you have toiled on. This very blog is constantly ripped by sploggers who have no regards to intellectual property rights or just plain simple dumb to realize [...]

Display Continuous List in Two Columns

hso — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:51:33 +0000

Here’s a quick and easy way to present a continuous list in two or more columns without having to hard code it. A recent project required a list of authors across two columns; the author names and links were auto generated using a WP tag so listing them in 2 columns required some simple CSS [...]

Baba The Storyteller Story: The Fool

hso — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:26:19 +0000

I worked on a site a while ago for a famous West Coast Kora Musician and Master Teller of Tales, Baba. Yesterday, out of the blue he sent me a nice piece of story which I thought I should share with the world. With everything that is happening around us, the war and our economy, [...]

May 2008 Reboot May Not Happen

hso — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:37:12 +0000

I have 30 minutes to come up with a design, slice it, code and go live. So the May 2008 reboot is not happening. I will come up with something original and clean soon, in the mean time you will have to make do with “The Studio” mod. Copyright © 2008 Headsetoptions.org. This Feed is for [...]

Block Rocker WordPress Theme

hso — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:13:24 +0000

Block Rocker is an “back to the basics” widget ready WordPress theme based on a TextPattern template by Squared Eye. Demo, Download and License Test the theme by running the demo, then grab a copy of Block Rocker WordPress theme. This theme is free for personal use, we urge you refer to the license section below before [...]

WordPress 2.5 Upgrade: WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now Message Appears after Upgrade Troubleshooting

hso — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:27:53 +0000

When a client of mine upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 from WordPress 2.5 she encountered an issue where the database will not upgrading, resulting in the “WordPress 2.5.1 is available! Please update now.” flashing in her dashboard and every other admin pages. On initial search of the WordPress support forum, we found the following strings that [...]

SEO Tip Open Comment Author URL in new Window

hso — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:52:44 +0000

For good SEO, it is preferential to open your comment authors URI in a new page. Why you might ask? Google and other search engines track sites you visit, they can tell what that site contains (obviously), how long you stayed there and where you went next. The intended use of this information is to [...]

WordPress 2.5.1 and CVE 2008 1930

hso — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:37:25 +0000

WordPress 2.5.1 is already out, so the blog you upgraded last month, is outdated and worse, could be vulnerable. A Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE 2008 1930) which reads as below is now known to be the reason for this hastened release: An attacker, who is able to register a specially crafted username on a Wordpress [...]

Web Design or Blog Design

hso — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:20:25 +0000

I get this question a lot; do you web design or blog design? and I say, is there a difference? Most new site that I work on are built using free CMS like WordPress and Textpattern so they tend to have a bloggy feel to it, so I see where this question might arise from. But [...]

Spring 2008 Reboot Prelude

hso — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:49:11 +0000

The site is in transition to a simpler and visually engaging design, in the mean time, experience what a free theme and a sleepless weekend can do to your site! This mid-spring pre-reboot reboot is just an idea mash-up. The true reboot will be available on May 1st 2008 and will be built using hand [...]

Free Advanced WordPress Theme Unbound

hso — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:04:37 +0000

Unbound is an full-function advanced WordPress theme with touch free “CSS” customization functionality built in. The theme has practically no set up time and works straight out of the box. Just like our other free premium advanced WordPress themes, “Unbound” comes packed with all the great functions and features we offer for free, such as… Theme edit [...]

Anatomy of a Magazine Style Premium WordPress Theme - Part 3.2 “Conditional Navigation Menus”

hso — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:07:41 +0000

As the tutorials run longer than we prefer, we have broken section 3 into 3 sub-sections, you can find sub-section 1 regarding second level menu here. The navigational aspect of a site, especially one that is database driven, should have menus that are dynamically generated just like the rest of its content, but is seldom the [...]

The Superest is Super Fun

hso — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:30:21 +0000

Here’s a super fun-tastic super hero super game. The Superest offers hours of entertainment as you follow the trails of superheros, their triumphs and eventual defeat by a new hero. The objective is not to determine who wins, because in this game, just like in politics, eventually everyone is defeated. Copyright © 2008 Headsetoptions.org. This [...]

Advanced WordPress Theme Silk

hso — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:09:22 +0000

Silk is a free advanced WordPress theme with fully customizable “edit without touching any coding” functionality and almost zero set-up. With the exception of creating a category called “Featured”, there is practically no set up required to use this theme. Just like our other free premium advanced themes, Silk includes all the following cool functions [...]

Advanced Free Premium WordPress Theme Fresh

hso — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:59:33 +0000

Fresh is a free premium (fremium) advanced WordPress theme. This full feature theme is built with our fully customizable advance edit “without touching any coding” functionality. Just like our other free premium advanced themes, Fresh includes loads of cool functions as listed below: Advance theme edit options, which helps in editing design elements such as colors, fonts, [...]

Photoshop Express tries to top Flickr

hso — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:16:20 +0000

Not a big fan of Adobe, but this is worth the post. The new offering from Adobe packs more firepower than any other social media network (including Flickr). With their competitive edge in the media manipulation market with Photoshop, it is no wonder that they decided to call this online application “Photoshop Express”. I suggest [...]

Richmond Web Tech, Startup, and Entrepreneur Meetup: April 16th

hso — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:34:24 +0000

If you are a local, drop in and meet Richmond net entrepreneurs, web designers, and network with folks interested in the internet and technology. Here’s a link to the meet up, sign up for free and stop by. I personally would like to meet some WordPress enthusiasts. Copyright © 2008 Headsetoptions.org. This Feed is for personal [...]

Free Magazine Style WordPress Theme Colourise

hso — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:29:50 +0000

Here’s another free magazine style theme “Colourise”. This is a full functional theme can be completely customized without touching any code. The theme includes all the cool functions of all our earlier free premium themes, here’s a short list: Advance theme design edit options to edit colors, fonts, header and more without touching the CSS. Featured-regular posts, accomplished [...]