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Yaro Starak interview

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 10 Comments

Yaro Starak is a well known blogger, the author of the popular site Entrepreneurs Journey which tells bloggers how to make money online. Yaro recently launched the Blog Mastermind, a training course for everyone who wants to makes money from his/her blog. As we wanted to know more about it, here’s our second blogger interview here at CatsWhoCode.

20 beautiful dark themes for Gnome and Ubuntu

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 57 Comments

Some weeks ago, I shown you a list of 30 themes for enhancing your Gnome desktop. Many readers loved the dark themes from this list, so here’s a new list of 20 dark and absolutely beautiful themes for your Gnome desktop.

How to: Turn your WordPress blog to an online shop

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 38 Comments

Ever wished to sell your ebooks, premium themes or your band’s mp3 directly on your Wordpress blog? Here’s eShop, a Wordpress plugin especially designed to turn your blog into an online store.

WordPress: “Magazine style” Horizontal dropdown menu

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 121 Comments

Even if most blogs have a very simple navigation, Worpress allows you to create very advanced menus. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a “Magazine Style” horizontal drop-down menu, for your categories or even your pages.

How to: Customize your GNU/Linux desktop in 7 easy steps

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 56 Comments

I absolutely love Linux, but in terms of design I have saw better than the default theme of most of the available distributions. Here’s a complete how-to for giving your Linux desktop the look you want and customize everything, from themes to fonts.

Top 10 Javascript slideshows, carousels and sliders

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 79 Comments

When you’re looking for a very eye-candy way to display your content, slideshows are always a good choice. Here’s our selection of 10 cross-platform, absolutely stunning slideshows, carousels and sliders, based on Mootools, JQuery, Yahoo! User Interface, and Script.aculo.us.

10 icons sets to customize your GNU/Linux desktop

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 72 Comments

Some days ago, I wrote a post about 30 gnome themes to enhance your Ubuntu desktop. In order to make one more step in Linux desktop customization, here is a list of 10 very cool icons sets for your Linux desktop.

5 tips to make your blog more popular

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 29 Comments

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

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 48 Comments

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

by Jean-Baptiste Jung. 71 Comments

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.