I’ve decided to start working on a new theme for sharkfoo.com.  The 2 column layout is not working for me, I’d much rather have a 3 column which would enable me to put ads in the sidebar instead of peppering them around in the content.  So stay tuned for that, also I have some new […]

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If you’re into designing themes for wordpress or you just want to try out a new theme without having to take your site down, build a separate test area, or want to do theme testing behind the scenes, you must get this plugin.  It’s called Theme Test Drive, and it allows you, as the admin, […]

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One of the building blocks of a popular website is its design.
It’s the first thing the visitor sees when they happen upon your site and first impressions are the most important to new users. There’s something about a website with a good design. You get the feeling that the author actually cares about […]

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Wow, I didn’t even see this till today, its a special deal Site5 is running till the end of March. It’s their 9 year anniversary special. I been using these guys for about 6 years now, run multiple sites with them and couldn’t be happier, even though I signed up when it was […]

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This is more of a rant then useful information.

Ever since Digg showed up in the mid 2000’s webmasters have been clammering to get their material dugg. In my opinion Digg is like a joke news site, like the Daily News show on Comedy Central. Now don’t get me wrong, I love funny news, […]

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These are just a few links I’ve been reading through the past few days, I figured I would post them up for you all to enjoy and hopefully learn something.

Smashing Magazine - Navigation is the most significant element in web design. Since web-layouts don’t have any physical representation a user can stick to, consistent navigation […]

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I’m going to try a little experiment here on sharkfoo. I will see if creating a post just once per day will produce a steady increase in daily traffic, hopefully it will. Another one of my goals is to get 500 visitors checking the site, once a day, in the next 30 days. […]

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I’m a firm believer in the phrase, “if you’ve don’t have anything good to say, don’t say it at all.”  It would have been wise for this writer to take that into account.  Check out the following screen shot and understand.

What is the point of even writing those sentences, they don’t make the visitor feel […]

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A lot of times you can pull from your own experiences what you liked and didn’t like about a website. Take a look at the sites you visit frequently and put together a small list of things about that website that you like. Maybe the fact that its easy to navigate, the colors, […]

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FYI I’m working on fixing the logo/css, if I remove the text it bumps a couple of divs around… it’ll be fixed shortly.

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