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#2025: Recent Posts With Thumbnails In WordPress Without A Plugin

Posted: April 12, 2010 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 1,477 views // View Comments

Add recent posts with thumbnails to your site, without having to hassle with a Wordpress plugin.

Today, I wanted to break my focus a little bit from SEO and get into the world of WordPress design—specifically the topic of adding thumbnails to your WordPress blog’s recent posts without the use of a plugin (it can be done). WordPress Plugins are cool, but can be a little temperamental over time as newer versions of WordPress are released.

Executing this is actually fairly simple in my mind, and you can see it in action in my site’s footer.

Step #1: The TimThumb PHP Script

This fancy little script from Darren Hoyt’s…

#1399: Using CSS Image Replacement for Non Web-Safe Fonts

Posted: October 8, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 473 views // View Comments

CSS Image Replacement can be a great way to utilize non web-safe fonts in your designs, while not hurting your SEO.

If you’re a designer, you’ve run into the issue of web-safe fonts in your designs before. If you’re not a designer, then you might be wonder just what IS a web-safe font?

Web-safe fonts are those fonts likely to be present on a wide range of computer systems, and are used by web content authors to increase the chance that content will be displayed in their chosen font. If a visitor to a website does not have the specified font, their browser will select an alternative — in the case of dingbat typefaces the alternative is unlikely to have similar…

#267: Web Design with SEO in Mind

Posted: March 11, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 134 views // View Comments

When designing a site, always keep SEO in mind. What's the point in designing something pretty if nobody finds it?!?

I’ve seen it a million times. A beautifully designed website will come across my desk, but the current or prospective client complains, “Why isn’t my site being found in the search engines?”

I’m here to tell you that good design doesn’t necessarily mean good SEO. In fact, most designers and programmers don’t have the slightest clue where to being when it comes to search engine optimization.

Since I double as an SEO Analyst and Web Designer, I’m going to give you some tips for designing a search-friendly website.

1. The Design First, SEO Second Stigma

One of the biggest issues…

#77: JQuery Scrolling Effect for Designers

Posted: February 3, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 8,573 views // View Comments

Utilize JQuery to create an awesome scrolling effect on your website's pages.

Want to learn how to do a cool JQuery Scrolling Effect on your site? It’s actually very easy to do! You can thank my good friend Eric Leslie at On Scene Media & Marketing for requesting this JQuery Scrolling Effect Tutorial.

JQuery is an awesome yet easy coding language and there are many other cool things you can do with it. I will try to show you how to implement the JQuery Scrolling Effect on your site in 5 easy steps…

You can see an example of JQuery Scrolling in action on…