This is a post expanding on the backend / developer site structure.

Is it perhaps the most important thing of a site. It aids the following factors;

1. User navigation
2. SEO factors
3. Search engine indexing
4. Useability
5. Conversions

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Relatively recently, you would have noticed that on a lot of phpLD based website directories that thumbnails are not working. The fix for this such problem is relatively simple and depending on your template you will need to edit:

• link.tpl
• main.tpl
• details.tpl

You then simply replace the msn girafa or alexa screenshots code with:

http://www.artviper.net/screenshots/screener.php?&url=

Therefore, the complete image tag would look like:

<img alt=”site preview” class=”thumb” src=”http://www.artviper.net/screenshots/screener.php?&url={$link.URL|escape|trim}” />

There are plenty more alternative services out there. This one however, does have good reviews and more information about implementing this service for the phpLD thumbnails problem can be found here.

Below are the top 5 websites that the web developer should look around in, participate in and study before making their new website.

1. http://www.smashingmagazine.com - A detailed blog full of CSS, showcases, fonts, graphics, tutorials and events. The fun doesnt stop there, it includes a toolbox, a ‘Best off’ section and articles are written in plenty of detail with lots of trackbacks, and comments from other authors. (more…)

This post is designed to show you that free software is good software. The software listed in this post is all open source software - meaning its free to install and use.

1. Pidgin - Instant Messenging Application.
   

   Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.

2. Notepad++ - Programming Text Editor
   

   Notepad++ is a free source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

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It has been announced that Wordpress 2.3 will be released on September 24th
.  With the current availability of Beta 2 (at the time of writing this post) you should be aware that the code is still “rough” and you should be confident and comfortable with web technologies if you are willing to try it out.

That said, this is still rough code, so you should only test the beta if you are comfortable troubleshooting PHP issues, filing tickets, and backing up your blog’s data.

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