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6 tricks and tip to create a “Magazine” WordPress theme

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 47 Comments

A lot of bloggers enjoys the “magazine” WordPress themes. Even if there’s a lot of Magazine themes availables, in my opinion nothing is better than creating your own. I have compiled 6 excellent tips and tricks to help you to create a killer WordPress theme.

19 ffmpeg commands for all needs

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 138 Comments

ffmpeg is a multiplatform, open-source library for video and audio files. I have compiled 19 useful and amazing commands covering almost all needs: video conversion, sound extraction, encoding file for iPod or PSP, and more.

How to: Customize your Twitter homepage

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 20 Comments

Many blog owners uses Twitter to promote their blog and stay in touch with other bloggers. I recently joined, and felt that my Tweeter homepage will be a lot better if I customize it.

Negative comments: 8 reasons why they’re good for your blog

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 26 Comments

All bloggers loves to receive feedback on their articles. But how do you handle negative feedback? As a blog grows, it becomes more exposed to negative comments. Despite the fact theses comments aren’t flattering, they’re good for your blog. Here’s 8 reasons why.

How spammers spams your blog comments

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 43 Comments

As a blogger, everyday I’m receiving hundreds of spam comments. I was very curious about how spammers can sends so many automated comments to thousands of blogs. Here’s an exemple which demonstrate how to spam blogs using PHP and Curl.

8 tips and tricks to create a killer “advertise” page for your blog

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 23 Comments

Most blogs are selling ads spaces, or at least, they try. During the last weeks, I visited many blogs and studied how do they spread the info about their ad spots sells. Here is 8 tips and tricks to create a killer advertising page for your blog and attract new advertisers.

5 tutorials to web design, the apple.com way

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 20 Comments

In terms of web design, Apple.com is a very good exemple of clean semantic code and stunning graphics. Here’s 5 high quality tutorials to design like apple.com and recreate Apple’s menubar, breadcrumbs, stylesheets…

How to: Create a BSoD-like 404 page

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 15 Comments

That’s a fact: It’s very annoying to click on a link and find an Error 404. So what about a little bit of fun? In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a Blue Screen of Death-like 404 page.

10 tips & plugins to get more comments on your WordPress blog

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 60 Comments

Comments are a very important part of a blog: This is where your readers gives you feedback about your posts. Many bloggers loves to receive feedback on their articles, but it’s not always that easy, especially on a newly created weblog. On Cats WhoCode, I got 690 comments for 36 articles, so here’s some simple tips I had implemented on my blog for getting more comments.