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March 9, 2010

More Fun with Firefox Tabs

This post is partially instructional and partially a look into how my brain works. (Be afraid... :)

A bit of history. A few months ago, a friend of mine posted something on Facebook about how frustrating it was to click a link in her news feed, get taken to a new page, then hit the Back button and find herself back at the top of the page (forcing her to scroll back down to try to find where she was before hitting the link). That prompted me to write a post on how to work around that problem: QuickTip: Open Web Links in a New Tab.
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Thesis: Replacing List Bullets with Images Using CSS

Replacing standard HTML list bullets with images can be a great way to tie them into your overall theme and make your site more visually appealing.

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Thesis: Format Previous Entries Pages Like Your Home Page

When you set up a WordPress blog, you can use the WP Settings > Reading panel to limit how many posts appear on a "blog" page, i.e. any page that displays a list of posts. When you have more than that many posts, you get Previous Entries and Next Entries links at the bottom of the page that let you navigate through them all. This is referred to as pagination.

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Thesis QuickTip: Adding Thumbnails to Your Teasers

I love the teaser feature of Thesis, where you have two columns of shorter blurbs linking to older blog posts. You can get a lot more links on your home page without making visitors have to scroll forever. However, by default, the teasers only display text, which is a little bland. And it's a real waste for sites that have a lot of attractive imagery in their posts, like photography, travel, and food blogs. Fortunately, it's very easy to add images to your teasers and Thesis offers several options for sizing and positioning them without requiring any coding at all.

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Working with Tabs in Firefox

Tabs were one of the best features ever added to browsers (remember when you had to have multiple browsers open on your computer to have access to several websites at a time?). Here are just a few tips on ways to work with them in Firefox.

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Thesis: Applying Functions Only to Specific Pages

In an earlier post, I showed you how to write a simple function that places a text box above the headline of your pages. But you don't always want certain content or functionality to apply to every single page on your site. In this post, I'm going to introduce you to conditional statements, which let you specify which pages your function will apply to.

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Thesis: Where Do You Put the Code?

In an earlier post I described how to write a simple custom function that would add a small piece of content into a specific location on your web page. One point of confusion that occasionally comes up is where you actually put this code.

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Thesis: The Basic Anatomy of a Custom Function

In my previous post, What Are Hooks and How Do You Use Them?, I explained that hooks are simply placeholders within the Thesis code where you can insert your own code to add extra content or functionality to your theme. These pieces of code are called functions and, in this post, I'm going to explain the basics of writing one.

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Build Your LinkedIn Network

Having an outstanding profile on LinkedIn while your network consists of only your three best friends is kind of like going to a party in a fabulous new outfit, then spending the evening huddled in the corner with, well, your three best friends.

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Thesis: What are Hooks and How Do You Use Them?

When you first start working with Thesis, you're going to see a lot of references to hooks. But unless you're already used to customizing code in WordPress, it can be a confusing concept to wrap your head around (at least it was for me!).

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