At times when creating a site, you may encounter a situation where you need to include more content into DIV than the design is made to handle.
Maybe you want to include the latest news, blogs feeds, or RSS information, but you would like to keep it contained to a small section of the web page.
To do this you can create a scrolling DIV area that will automatically scroll when there is an overflow of content within the DIV. The effect looks much like an iFRAME, but is a far more search engine friendly and user friendly way of doing it.
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I have gotten several questions about the social bookmarks bar that is seen below each of my blog posts, so I thought I would clarify a little.
The Social Bookmarks Bar is a plugin developed for Word Press to allow readers of a blog to quickly bookmark and share their favorite articles as the read a blog. The original version of the Social Bookmarks Bar can be found in the Word Press Codex.
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Many users of Word Press have found issues with their title tags that render their links poorly in the search engines.
These are the main problems that users wish to fix about the title tags are:
.) Place post title before the blog title
.) Remove the dash (or ») when there is not post title.
.) Users wish to remove the “»” altogether from the title tags.
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From time to time it is helpful to make entire DIV or SPAN click-able as link would be. This is often helpful when you want to make a section of an image, or perhaps a background image function as a link would.
The effect is made possible with some simple JavaScript that uses the “onclick” action to trigger the link behavior.
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