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Get Mashable Style Image Fading Effect On Your Blog

Rishabh — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:24:56 +0000

Have you ever wondered, how mashable loads so incredibly fast? Recently, they have tweaked their CSS files with some nerdy codes that lead to decrease in the load time of their entire website. What they actually did is, they incorporated some jQuery codes into their CSS style sheet that makes images load in a fading way, as you scroll down the page.

Last night, I was wondering how about coding the same? While researching on the jQuery techniques that they might have used, I stumbled upon a plugin for the same. And it was a treat! Imagine if you get a ready-made plugin for a thing which is just like plug and play!

Well, the plugin is called the Lazy Image Loading Plugin and can also be downloaded from wordpress.org. I installed it on my other photography blog, shutterskills.com and I found it awesome!

If you are facing trouble getting around, here’s a nice tutorial

Do let me know, how you found the Mashable Style image fade plugin

10 Features To Check Out In WordPress 3.0

Rishabh — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:10:04 +0000

WordPress 3.0 is scheduled to be released in May 2010 and there are some really great features, which are surely going to blow the mind of all wordpress lovers. Let’s take a look.

1. Choosing Username and Password

You’ll encounter new features as soon as you start! Currently, when you first install WordPress, you are assigned a default username of admin, and a randomly generated password. No more – now WordPress lets you choose a username and password when installing.

2. New Default Theme!

WordPress 3.0 comes with a new default theme, called TwentyTen (2010, like the current year – go figure). Apparently, the WP team has an aim to release a new default theme every year! TwentyTen is a nice theme. The main typeface used is Georgia; it has two columns, with a widgetized sidebar and footer – and it even has some nice dropdown menus built in! Needless to say, custom header and background (new feature) functions are also available.

3. Custom Background Support

WordPress 3.0 adds custom background support. Add the code below to your functions.php to make your theme support it:

add_custom_background();

Once that’s done, you’ll see an option called Background added under Appearance in the WordPress admin. This will allows you to upload a header image and customize it.

4. Multi-site Capabilities and WPMU Codebase Merge

WordPress and WPMU (WordPress MultiUser) are merging their codebases. This makes it much easier to handle large WordPress networks. See the Multi-Site settings under Settings>Network.

5. Custom Post Types

A great new feature! Before, all you could add from the WordPress admin section was new posts and pages. Now, you can create new post types to show up

6. Custom Taxonomies

Custom taxonomies have been made easier to use, as well as hierarchical – which means you could have a taxonomy called ‘Rating’, with sub-taxonomies like PG-13, R , U etc.

7. Easy Menu Management

This is my favorite new feature in WordPress 3.0 – a menu manager. It’s developed by WooThemes’ WooNav, and I absolutely love it. You can create multiple menus, categories, and even custom external or internal links! The menu feature even comes with a default widget to add to any widget ready area – awesome, isn’t it?

8. Welcome Guide

WordPress 3.0 will be including a guide with it which helps users to know the system better and teach them basic usage.

9. Specific author templates

We already have hierarchy for categories and tags like category-{slug}.phpfollowed by category-{id}.php in the Template Hierarchy, but now you can do the same for authors. So, if the author name was ‘Rohan’ with id 1, WordPress would first look for author-rohan.php, thenauthor-1.php before author.php in the template files for display.

10. Media UI redesign

Started, but not implemented in WordPress 2.9, the Media tab in the admin panel may get a UI redesign

Techylabs PageRank Update

Rishabh — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:59:51 +0000

Here’s some good news for us. On April 2, 2010, Google showered Techylabs with some love and presto! We’re now a PR-1 Tech Blog

This is the first PageRank update and we’re quite happy that we’ve taken the first step in the journey. Techylabs was started in January 2010 and in 3 months, we’ve attained a Page Rank of 1. We hope that we’ll keep adding more to this milestone. Meanwhile, you stay tuned for more fun here, at Techylabs

Google Adsense Exclusively For Students

Rishabh — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:15:28 +0000

Are you a student and a passionate blogger? Do you design websites and scribble your ideas on the world wide web? Well, Google knows you and has come up with a surprise! Google has announced their Adsense program, which is exclusively for students out there. And according to Google:

It’s okay to spend every waking minute on your website – so long as you get paid for it.

So, students, no need to really be an entrepreneur before you can make money on the internet. As long as you’re interesting, there are endless possibilities. If you need tips for starting or setting up a blog for yourself where you can make a few bucks, feel free to Contact Us.

Hostgator March Discount Code

Rishabh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:29:07 +0000

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