Welcome to redesigned and improved zParacha.com. I have been thinking of giving my blog a face-lift for some time. I considered several options including designing/developing a new theme from scratch, buying Thesis and then modifying it, or buying a premium theme. Since I have several options I kept considering pros Continue Reading »
It is amazing that many web developers still use onload method embedded in the BODY tag, like
<HEAD>
<BODY onload=”document.contact.userID.focus();”>
<form name=”contact”>
<input type=”text” name=”userID” >
</form>
</BODY>
</HEAD>
There are two problems with this line of code.
Embedding code (behavior) with HTML (structure) makes it Continue Reading »
Google agrees that the time has come for us to lay IE6 to rest. Google announced in a blog post that it will stop supporting IE6 from March 01, 2010. Google will start by phasing out IE6 support for Google Docs and Google Sites, but I believe eventually Continue Reading »
Color coordination plays a big role in the look and feel of a website. An appealing color scheme is an important prerequisite for eye catching web design. Dull or very sharp colors or mismatch colors will not only look ugly it may overshadow other nice elements of your website. Continue Reading »
Positioning text in the center of an element is easily done using text-align:center property. But how do you position an entire element, for e.g; a div or an image in the center of the containing parent element?
For example, if you want to put an image at the center of your Continue Reading »
If one of your new year resolutions for 2010 is to improve your blogging and take your blog to the next level then I have a great news for you. ProBlogger Darren is offering a sweet deal on his very popular 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook. Continue Reading »
I have TwitterTools plugin to tweet my new blog posts to my twitter account. Recently I noticed that my tweets from TwitterTools plugin do not have the URL to my posts. I checked my plugin settings and everything looked OK.
var addthis_pub = ‘parachaz’;
var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email,twitter, Continue Reading »
One of the challenges web designers face is to get various web browsers render their web pages in a consistent manner. The reason is every browser assigns slightly different default styles to certain page elements.
A simple approach to handle this cross-browser inconsistency is to overwrite browsers’ default Continue Reading »
Earlier this week WordPress 2.9.1 was released to fix some minor bugs found in release 2.9. It also fixes the annoying issue some bloggers faced with posts scheduling and pingbacks. It is always a good idea to keep your WordPress installation (and all plugins) uptodate, so I would strongly Continue Reading »
While you are celebrating the arrival of the new year, don’t forget to update the year on the copyright notice on your blog. The simplest way is to edit the file and replace 2009 with 2010, but a better solution would be to replace the year in your copyright declaration Continue Reading »
