Daily Archives: March 5, 2012

How to Create a Custom Theme for Your WordPress Blog with Minimal Coding Required

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How to Create a Custom Theme for Your WordPress Blog with Minimal Coding RequiredYou want to start your own blog but you don’t want to look tacky by using an existing design. Creating your own theme can be daunting, but with some assistance you can have a unique design for your blog in no time. This post will help you put it all together using WordPress, the most popular (and free) blogging software available.

How to Create a Custom Theme for Your WordPress Blog with Minimal Coding Required

Creating a WordPress theme can take quite a bit of work when you’re starting from scratch because you have to put together quite a bit of PHP code (the programming language WordPress uses) before you can even get to creating the look and feel of your site. We’re going to save you the trouble by providing those files pre-made for you, plus a skeletal structure of the CSS you’re going to need to make your WordPress site look the way you want. The PHP code is based upon the work of Ian Stewart, but has been updated for WordPress 3.3.1. If you’re ready to get started, here’s what you’ll need:

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Convert FLV Videos With FLV Video Converter via Martin Brinkmann

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Many of the videos that you download from video hosting sites like Youtube these days are saved as flv files on your computer (check out our Download Youtube Videos guide for tools to download videos from the popular video hosting site). And while you have plenty of programs at your disposal to watch them directly there (VLC and SMplayer are two), you may not be as lucky if you want to watch them on the big screen instead.

That’s when you may realize that your video DVD burning software is not supporting flv files, or that it is not enough to burn the flv files to disc in hope that your hardware media player supports the format.

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How To Make Youthful, Glowing Portraits In Under a Minute – How-To Geek

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You’ve seen it in magazines, photo websites, advertisements, and loads of other places—that romantic, almost saccharine look applied to an image to soften skin texture and create “glowing” portraits. Here’s how to get that supermodel glow in under a minute.

You can apply this effect to nearly any image, but it will probably do its best work improving portraits or pictures of people. But if you’re like most of us, you probably have a lot of these kinds of pictures. Open up some of them, and see how ridiculously easy it is to apply that warm, professional-looking glow effect.

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20 Awesome Pinterest Tools

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Pinterest already offers users some great tools to help them get their accounts get noticed, including a Follow Button and Pin It button which can easily be installed on any website. But with such an active community, it’s no surprise that there are a ton of other interesting tools, apps, and sites which aim to enhance the Pinterest experience.

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WordPress plugins, Pinterest analytics, cool Pinterest layouts and hacks, and mobile access – Pinterest’s vibrant community has pretty much left no stone unturned.

We’ve put together a list of 20 of these tools, in no particular order.

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