Creating an SEO Friendly WordPress Theme – pt.1

Posted on August 8, 2011 by mike

WordPress is already partially SEO friendly “out of the box”, and with numerous plugins a theme can be made to be a search engine’s best friend. But we are making our theme from scratch, so instead of relying on a plugin, why don’t we create our new WordPress theme to be SEO friendly from the outset?

In part 1 of this series we will be looking at creating a simple theme (without style) and examining the head section of the standard markup created by WordPress to see where we can improve it’s relationship with search engines.
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Hack attempts

Posted on August 5, 2011 by admin

A number of people, from a number of different countries are attempting to hack into my site!

As far as I can tell their attempts have not been successful, but if anyone notices anything strange or malicious happening whilst visiting MikesAccount please let me know. Thanks :)

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Creating a fluid page layout

Posted on August 4, 2011 by admin

Creating a website page layout that scales nicely for different resolutions and font sizes is quite simple to achieve using cascading style sheets. In this tutorial I attempt to create such a layout, and try to create a simple example webpage using xhtml and css.

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WordPress Theme

Posted on July 30, 2011 by admin

Arghh! I can’t decide on what theme to use for MikesAccount.com! I find a decent theme, and then discover it’s full of stuff the theme author thought would be “cool”, but in reality are NOT!

So, I hereby plan on creating a theme (so please don’t be offended if the design around here changes).  It must be:

  • SEO friendly – No point writing a blog if no one’s going to find it,
  • Lightweight – Minimal amount of images, light on bandwidth
  • Clean – I can’t stand blogs that are full of unnecessary junk.
  • User friendly – Easy navigation, etc

Depending on how I get on with this, I may make a tutorial/guide for other people to follow and make their own WordPress theme.

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Current projects

Posted on July 29, 2011 by mike

At present I have two projects which I am working on. One of them is a Jokes website, the other is a bulk domain name checker.

I’m undertaking these projects to better my knowledge of web programming concepts. The jokes website is helping me learn how to create a PHP MVC framework, along with improving my PHP skills – in particular OOP based PHP. The bulk domain checker is also being written in PHP, but I am also using Ajax in this project which is a new thing for me.

I may document these projects further as I progress with them. If you have any suggestions (or comments) on these projects, just let me know :)

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