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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Across my sites, I try to use a common file structure. I even make sure that applications I decide to install or use use this file structure to some extent and if they dont use it, I dont use that application and write my own or find another. Simple.

photo credit: totalAldo

A common site structure is necassary in terms of the site shell and the generated content the site produces (HTML/CSS/JS etc…).

In terms of a site structure, here is one that I tend to try to find and use from a developers point of view. A site structure like the one listed below will help to maintain the site, address problems and ensure that each site component is individual from another.

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photo credit: Heather R.

Bit of a while since an update due to a few things, but take a look at the open source releases over at DooBDee.net.

If you are interested in phpBB, wordpress and most things computers / coding / internet entrepreneuring then open source releases is for you.

An excerpt from the site;

Welcome to DooBDee.net. This website is designed to cover open source releases, internet resources, downloads and support.

The navigation of internet items on the left hand side aims to cover specific areas of the Internet. This website is heavily focused on internet resources for webmasters, web and computer users.

Check out open source releases, its worth it. Technorati Profile

Todays post is sponsored by: Web Inspiration.

To create a theme (since version 2.2) is to make the theme widget enabled, so this is how you do one.

In order to make a theme widgetized, we have to do this. Open sidebar.php and add this:

<?php /* Widgetized sidebar. */
if ( !function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

// Sidebar content here.

<?php endif; ?>

Thats all there is to it!

Todays post is sponsored by: Web Inspiration.

I’ve seen in some sites something that really caught my eye. It’s a bar that emulates the warning bar that IE displays when they want to give us some kind of warning. It caughts my eye because I use Firefox. =)

It looked like a good way to caughts users eye because they tend to pay attention to those warnings, so this is the way we can drive our users attention to whatever topic we want.

So let’s start this tutorial.

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