Arguably old news in today’s link-blogging blogosphere, but I could think of no better way to publicize my RSS feed for free icons than to promote the feed icons implemented by Mat Brett to establish a standard. After the announcement by the Microsoft RSS Team to adopt the firefox feed icon and the subsequent post by the founder/leader of the Mozilla QA and Testing program about the current state of affairs of feed icons, Matt saw an opportunity. A new feed icon standard needed to be established. » Read the rest of the entry..

Using CC icons on your Website?

Each of the icons listed that employs a CC license may be using one of several different variations. Therefore, you must check with each author to make sure you comply with his or her wishes. CC licenses may specify non-commercial use / and or author attribution — no bid deal really.

Using LGPL (and GPL) icons on your Website?

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I’d like to use the tags I have made for posts as their keywords in the Meta field. It makes good SEO, even if keyword tags are going out of style, it can’t hurt. This is what I have so far:

[php]
< ?php if (function_exists('UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet')) {
// Check if UTW exists, if so then do this: ?>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”< ?php echo UTW_ShowCurrentTagSet('tagsettextonly'); ?>“>
< ?php } ?>
[/php]

I place this little tidbit of code within the header PHP within the following if statement so that it only shows up on pages or posts:
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Awesome Wikipedia Icon that actually represents the wikipedia:

In some cases, the knowledge are “boxed”. But we always can explore beyond…

See the image below and view the author’s page on Deviantart.

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Over at the K2 forums, people are diligintly helping other people out. Its a great place to get answers about php coding for your wordpress site and the K2 theme. One of the members of the forum (steveo) wrote up the following code for a dynamic sticky using K2. Originally, I had written up a short tutorial on how to make certain posts ’sticky’, or stay at the top of your blog while other posts lined up behind. This allows you to feature some posts over others. The original code for Kubrick, the default theme for wordpress is here.

Steveo has gone and tweaked it up for K2. His original post is here, with the code pasted below: » Read the rest of the entry..

URI: www.furl.net
Popularity: Alexa - 4th, PR 8
Special Feature: Saves entire copy of page

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Providing links to social bookmarking websites is a no-brainer. This article explains why you should have social bookmarking sites for your users.

Executive Summary

The primary reason to do provide social bookmarking links is exposure. Exposure translates into visits to your website which translates into prestige (whether perceived or not is up for debate) and revenue (if you sell a product or have advertisements on your site).

Social bookmarking provides: » Read the rest of the entry..

I posted this short blurb over at the wordpress support forums. I hope something good comes of it.

I love wordpress, I use it all the time for a variety of projects. The people who have put it together and those who contribute are awesome. Good job.

One feature that I like has been the wordpress dashboard which displays a variety of important news you may be interested in. For the most part, the links displayed in the dashboard are reasonably informative. However, I really really do not like the newest set of links that are showing up the the dashboard — ‘Dougal Campbell: links for 2006-03-XX.’

First of all why should I care what Dougal thinks is newsworthy? And lets be frank, who cares that he used to play the trumpet? Please remove superfluous information about Dougals former life as a trumpeter out of my wordpress dashboard.

What happens when you pollute formerly (somewhat) useful information with these useless links is that users like myself will completely ignore the dashboard and its associated links — even the important ones.

If you are going to force users to display links in their wordpress dashboard, at least make the links important.