Use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to Maximize the Performance of Your Small Business Website
Posted on January 26, 2008
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Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is a method of website design that allows for the separation of content and design. By incorporating CSS into the design of your small business website, you can increase the ability of search engines to spider your website, reduce your small business website page load time, make your site more user-friendly, and easily edit the appearance of your web site. Read more
Create Dynamic Database Driven CSS Navigation Menus with Dreamweaver, PHP and MySQL
Posted on January 26, 2008
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Since originally writing this article, there has been a new Dreamweaver extension released that can build your database-driven CSS drop-down menus for you. It’s CSS Menu Writer 2 from WebAssist. It creates unlimited levels of menu navigation in horizontal or vertical formats. It comes will a bunch of preset styles, so you can either use one out-of-the-box or customize it to meet your needs. Now, back to the article…
This article will demonstrate an easy way to create dynamic CSS-based navigation menus that allow you to change your website navigation sitewide with one simple MySQL database update. For this example, I will be using the Chrome CSS Drop Down Menu available from Dynamic Drive. It’s a free, lightweight CSS menu that is easily customizable and only uses a small amount of JavaScript. There are other free CSS menus available such as the Suckerfish menu and other commercial menu options are available. Read more
Installing a New WordPress Theme
Posted on January 25, 2008
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As a logical first post on WebRehash.com, I thought I’d share how I customized the blog with a different WordPress theme. For readers new to the blog scene, there are many blog platforms out there, but I chose to use WordPress because of it’s extensive plug-in support and the fact that it is very easy to customize.
I installed WordPress via the Fantastico scripts that come included in my web hosting plan. If you don’t have a “click and install” type of function from within your site admin section, you can download the installation package from the WordPress website here. Read more
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