The ‘Read More’ or post summary feature has now become a standard on many blogs based on WordPress or otherwise. However one glitch with this feature, which is rather overlooked by newbie theme developers, is that , by default, when a visitor click on the Read More link, the web page loads and then automatically forwards or jumps to the spot where the tag is set in the post, skipping all the content above it. (more…)

Do you like the way news channels display moving headlines? If yes, then you should check out this blogger widget called Scrolling Headlines. This blogger hack displays recent posts as headlines. iwebgator.com has presented a simple widget for achieving this. (more…)

WordPress undoubtedly is one of the best and most widely used blogging (or CMS?) platform in the world. Be it the wide support or the great many number of plugins, to the power of customization in ones hand, its so good. But as they say, along with great power comes great responsibility. As people just went on adding plugins, themes et al, the loading times of some blogs have gone through the roof. Here are some wuick tips to speed up your blog. (more…)

The seasons of gifts is upon us. Either way that you look, there are discounts all around. Everybody wants to cash in and get the market share by offering their premium products for free. Lunarpages, one of the most popular and leading hosting providers, is offering a $50 discount on all of their plans this Christmas. Read on redeem the coupon and get your discount. (more…)

Goo.gl‘s URL shortener is hot property now! And why not, you get a good looking URL that is supported by none other than Google! The only official way of using it at the time of posting was using either it through feedburner or by using the Google toolbar. The feedburner option is for blogs only and wel, I’m not a big fan of toolbars. So here is a FireFox add-on for it! (more…)

Just wanted to slip in a quick tip. Google Images has certainly simplified life by allowing us to search for an image pretty easily. Certain parameters can be adjusted using the ‘Show Options‘, from the toolbar below the search box. One option is for specifying the size of the image. They include Any size, Medium, Large, Icon, Larger than…and exactly. (more…)