Lorrel IE 7 tweaks for Wordpress

Posted on November 6th, 2006 in Uncategorized by daya

 

If you are the author, tweaker, or users of a Wordpress Theme or Wordpress Plugins, I highly recommend the following:

  1. Download Internet Explorer 7 and put your Wordpress Themes through their paces.
  2. View all the different page views from the front page, single post view, and search, category, and archive views. Make sure all the parts and pieces fit together and stay where they are supposed to stay.
  3. Validate your Wordpress Theme. Things can get messed up along the way, so test now to make sure it is in full working order before IE7 hits.
  4. Test your feeds to make sure they are working, including for your entire blog, blog comments, category feeds, and any custom feeds you may have. IE7 will automatically detect RSS feeds and ask users to subscribe, and will even offer frequent updates and alerts for feeds.
  5. Using Ajax in Wordpress Themes or Wordpress Plugins? According to the IE Blog, a specific order to the request changes needs to be set. Contact authors of Ajax Plugins if you’re not sure to make sure their Wordpress Plugins are compliant with IE7.
  6. Check the Information Index for Internet Explorer7 to make sure your Wordpress Theme or Wordpress Plugins will work within IE7.

If your Wordpress Theme or Plugins does pass the IE7 tests, make sure you label it accordingly.

While you are at it, why not check your Wordpress Theme design and code in some other updated browsers. Or take this opportunity to update your Wordpress Theme or Wordpress Plugins with all the user’s fixes and suggestions so you get publicize it as “new and improved” and “works with IE7?.

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Googles web optimizer! Get your site optimized by Google.

Posted on November 6th, 2006 in General by daya

   Google and Yahoo! know that speeding pages to their users is crucial. Both companies have invested millions of dollars in the server capacity and software enhancements that it takes to quickly serve search results to millions of users everyday. However, the optimizations that these companies perform do not stop at infrastructure investments. They optimize the delivery of their data right down to the data itself.

Have you looked at the page source of a Google query? They implement some smart coding practices that, when applied consistently, add up to significant page size savings. They use concise JavaScript code. Their function and variable names are always terse. Their CSS IDs are one or two characters long and the color values commonly use three digit hex values rather than six digit values whenever possible. They don’t send a lot of white space in their source code either.

How about getting your own Website optimized from Google

That should something really interesting isn’t? Yes, Google has launched new Website optimizer, If you are Google AdWords customer, you can get goggles your Website optimized by Google for free. This again on invitation just signup for Google web optimizer here, and get your Website optimized today.

 

But Do not forget to watch the Google interesting web optimizer video here

Click here view the video

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