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"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.-Denis Diderot"

Organizing your theme folder

 
Hello, its wednesday again.. Happy Halloween.! Today, I shall be giving out a tip on how to organize your theme folder, in wordpress so as to get a grip on what you are doing. This is not so much wordpress, as more of a best practice.. Don't insert your entire code into your sidebar.php, header.php, home.php, page.php, single.php pages... Instead work with chunks.. What do I mean? I shall demonstrate by example.. If you look into my ...

Managing state in wordpress

 
Sometimes we want to display a different button for when you are logged-in and another for when you are not.. (See pictures) Login button example logout button example /*we figure out if user is logged in? If not logged in, show button, else show button */ a href='/ wp-login.php”target=“new” class=“login”> login / wp-login.php?action=logout” target=“new” class=“logout”> logout

Instead of styling the link classes, you can also just change the text

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Motion Blur - Radial

 
This is quite a simple effect actually.. I took a photo, and pasted it on 2 layers using Serif photo Plus 6.0, my image editing tool. One layer i selected an irregular path and feathered to a 100, and masked it. The layer below, i applied a radial motion blur. And hey presto, a neat effect resulted. Dont you think so?

chilligavva i-phone ready..

 
I am happy to announce that the chilligavva site is i-phone compatible. Read all about it here..

Is your site i-phone ready?

 

In an ideal web world, all websites should display the same in any media or device.. (screen, printer, mobile, speech synthesiser etc. etc.)  This actually helps a lot of readers recieve the website in a manner that is correct for them.  What do I mean?  The sight impaired can either recieve a site in a braille friendly manner or listen to the site read out to them  in an audio format. (text to speech.).

For a very normal reader,

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Sexy, Hitler, Britney?

 
I was mightily amused when i read this article.. The article speaks of a 2004 Google popular searches listing... The top searchers for other keywords were as follows (in order from first to third place): "Jihad" - Morocco, Indonesia, Pakistan "Terrorism" - Pakistan, Philippines, Australia "Hangover" - Ireland, United Kingdom, United States "Burrito" - United States, Argentina, Canada "Iraq" - United States, Australia, Canada "Taliban" - Pakistan, Australia, Canada "Tom Cruise" - Canada, United States, Australia "Britney Spears" - Mexico, Venezuela, Canada "Homosexual" - Philippines, Chile, Venezuela "Love" - Philippines, ...

A New Award for me yet again…

 

Thank you  Zubli and Shinade for yet another award.  This time its the OPAL award...

This is the second award I have earned/won so far.  Read all about it over here at Shinade's blog.  I am so flattered and pleased.  A real heartfelt thank Shinade and Zubli....

A little while ago, I had recieved the Silver award.  they then upgraded me to an Opal Award.  I feel

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Thank You….

 
Thank you dear Chilligavva fans, readers and visitors. I especially thank all the people who helped generate a whole lot of incoming links to this site. A special thanks to my loyal supporters, David Airey, Zubli, Kim Barker, David Bale and Shinade :) I shall always hold you in the highest regard...