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Web Development

How I launched a new blog in just 3 hours

March 14, 2009

A few weeks ago our state government here in Queensland announced that an election will be held in 4 weeks time (one week from today). I have an interest in state-level politics and had long considered starting a site dedicated to the topic. With the election announcement I figured there is no better time than [...]

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Sample WordPress content for theme developers

September 22, 2008

WPCandy.com has put together a nice sample content file that can be imported into a WordPress site to help make testing and development easier. Writing dummy content is one of the more boring aspects of setting up test sites with WordPress so this sample file makes a great edition to the developer’s toolkit.

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WordPress Developer’s Toolbox by Smashing Magazine

September 18, 2008

Smashing Magazine has put together a comprehensive WordPress Developer’s Toolbox containing links to tutorials and references for almost everything you can think of when it comes to developing sites with WordPress. The format is a bit confusing but the content is well worth checking out.

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A little SEO goes a long way

July 2, 2008

Have you checked lately to see what your listings on Google look like? There are thousands of WordPress themes on the web for bloggers to use, and not all of them include even basic search engine optimisation (SEO). This theme here at Crane Factory was made from scratch, and initially I had no meta tags [...]

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Learn PHP and MySQL Web Development

May 28, 2008

If you spend some time working under the hood with WordPress you will start to realise the power of the PHP programming language and the MySQL database engine. These two technologies make software such as WordPress possible and are behind some of the biggest and most popular websites on the internet today. Which is why [...]

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