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5 tips to make your blog more popular
CatsWhoCode has been launched on June 9, 2008. 6 weeks later, we got a pagerank of 4, more than 1500 unique visitors/day, 150+ rss suscribers and many articles has been tagged popular on digg-like websites as such as del.icio.us, reddit, designfloat and dzone.
Here's how did we managed to have theses kinda good results in only 6 weeks.
5 plugins and tips to secure your Wordpress blog
Webmasters and bloggers often have a huge fear of being hacked, and the more a website is popular, the more it is exposed to various hacking attempts. Here are 5 tips and plugins that will allow you to secure your Wordpress install, because prevention is always better than cure!
30 Gnome themes to enhance your Ubuntu experience
To be honest, I never really liked Human, Ubuntu's default theme, and seems that many other people don't. Happilly, on GNU/Linux systems it is easy to customize everything, even the buttons aspect or the windows borders. Here's a list of 30 Gnome themes of all styles, from the Windows XP look-a-like to the very original skin, to enhance your Ubuntu experience.
10 Mootools scripts for enhancing your html forms
You know it: Forms are one of the most important part of a website. But forms also require a lot of work. Happilly, the excellent Javascript framework Mootools is here to help: Here's 10 scripts to enhance your forms, both visually and functionally.
Wordpress How-to: customize the IWPhone plugin
I just wrote a post about the IWPhone plugin on Hack Wordpress. This very handy plugin creates an iPhone/iPod Touch friendly version of your blog, by removing unecessary elements, auto-scaling images and adapt content to iPhone/iPod resolution, allowing you to read the content without even having to zoom. Even if this plugin is great, you'll have to customize it a bit in order to make it perfectly fits your blog design.
Top 10 CSS buttons tutorial list
That's obvious: Buttons are a very important part of a website: They're the most common way your visitors can trigger an action and interact with your website. Sadly, even theses days many web pages still displays ugly buttons. Here's our "Top Ten" CSS buttons tutorial list, for giving your buttons, submits and links the beauty they deserve.
Wordpress How to: Customize OpenBook theme color scheme
Since the release of the OpenBook, many bloggers asked me how they can modify the color scheme of the theme. Before the release of OpenBook next version, which will probably allow the user to set the colors in Wordpress admin panel, here's an easy, step by step guide to give your OpenBook theme the look you want, even if you don't know any web language.
My name is Jean-Baptiste Jung and I'm the man behind Cats Who Code. I started to use the Internet back in 1998 and started to create websites three years laters in 2001.
10 icons sets to customize your GNU/Linux desktop