I decided to start using an awesome WordPress plugin today, named WP Greet Box. Pretty much, it sees where your visitors are coming from, and automatically shows a targeted message to them depending on where they came from. Smashing Magazine has been using it for some time, and I had just assumed it was a specific plugin they made for themselves, but it is actually available for everyone!

Check out their homepage for more plugins by them as well.

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If you’ve ever wondered how you can get WordPress to actually let you edit the “more” link at the bottom of post previews that show on the homepage, you’ve found the right place.

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Head on over to the templates page to grab my first free WordPress theme, “Simple Space”.

Those of you who’ve been to my site a few times will notice that it’s actually the last theme I used on this very site! I’ve also uploaded the Photoshop PSD for free download and use. There are many, many unused and hidden layers in it, and if you unhide them, you can see many ideas I had for that design that I decided not to put up.

Enjoy, and of course, more are coming.

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By now, everybody pretty much knows that valid web site code is pretty important, especially if you want your site to render fast, correctly and have clean code. A few years ago you could debate that conforming to the W3C standards wasn’t necessary, and that tables were still more useful than CSS, but those days are over.

So it’s no wonder that many web designers have really begun taking interest in their own code, making sure it is valid, while at the same time making it work in IE (damn you!). Keeping that in mind, you would think the pioneers of “Web 2.0″ would make sure their web site would keep with this new standard. Unfortunately, you’re wrong.

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