Top 4 WordPress Theme Development Resources

category: Blog
tags: Web Design,Web Development,WordPress

I’ve been researching tutorial sites for advanced WordPress theme development lately and have discovered some excellent resources. The Wordpress community is passionate about the platform. This is reflected in the outstanding theme development I’ve seen in the past several months.

Here is my collection of resources for aspiring and advanced WordPress developers.

Keyword Research to Increase Revenue

category: Blog
tags: Keywords,SEO

Understanding which keywords to use in your site copy and article marketing initiatives is crucial to ensuring the time invested in promoting your sites actually pays off. Selecting the right keyword over the wrong keyword can effect the success of your site and how much money you make.

Building Backlinks

category: Blog
tags: Backlinks,SEO

The single objective for any website owner is to get links to the homepage and individual pages on the site, called “Deep Linking”.

Definitions

One-Way Links: When a website links to you but you don’t link to them. One-way links are the most valuable as they carry more “link juice” weight in terms of Google Ranking.

Reciprocal Links: Links shared between sites. A logical link between two sites retains value. A link from sites that share not common interests carries the least weight.

How to Build High Quality Links:

Create Authoritative Content

Creating valuable, helpful content is the first step to getting other sites to link to your site.  If a webmaster or blogger finds information of value to their users then they might place a link to your site on theirs.

Zen Cart Blank Checkout Page Error- Solved!

category: Blog
tags: Coding Tips,Web Development,Zen Cart

I was recently preparing the launch of a new Zen Cart store for a client when encountered a blank page on checkout. There was no error, just a blank page. Baffled, I reloaded the CHECKOUT page and processed another test transaction only to see the blank page appear farther up the checkout process on the CART page.

The admin showed the orders were being processed, so the data was hitting the database. I had no where to go, and was looking at either systematically going through each template file and each database table to see if I could find any evidence of what was causing the errors.

Beat Writer’s Block-Hire a Writer!

category: Blog
tags: Article Marketing,SEO

I’ll be writing about article marketing often as it as safe and proven method for acquiring backlinks and building Page Rank (PR). Submitting articles to the major article directories is an excellent way to build traffic to your site. First it does not get any more “White Hat”, which Google just loves. Second, you can get others to market your content for free simply because they are too lazy to create their own. Third, it builds credibility for you as an authority for your product or service.

Protect Your Typography with EM

category: Blog
tags: CSS Coding,HTML Coding

The main reason is to accommodate varying screen resolutions and protect your site from going haywire on different monitors. First, IE6 and IE7will not allow users to resize text that has been sized in pixels. Face it, your readers will need to resize text at some point for a whole host of reasons. They could have bad eyesight, or they could be using a super hi-rez laptop monitor, or they might be be giving a presentation.