Month: July 2009
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Email Marketing – Open Rates: subject line rules and content is key
I’ve been a/b testing a lot lately – I usually do this with most of my campaigns, using a sample group to test and then sending the best subject line to the rest of the list. Our email providers latest update claims to do this automatically (if you want) – but I’m not sure I…
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Alphabetical ordering of wordpress post
I found this post (http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/01/22/6-ways-to-customize-wordpress-post-order/) about how to get your wordpress posts sorted alphabetically and thought I would drop it here until I have time to get a fix on my recipe’s website [Edit: now amalgamated in to oliverjobson.co.uk] which I created to store some ideas for food and share them amongst friends and family…
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CSS Z-Index – Creating an adjustable background image for a page
I have been messing around with z-index recently for styling documents. I have been meaning to use it as a much more efficient way of creating cool backgrounds but it’s always been a bit of a mystery! It still seems a bit wierd – I don’t think it is supported very well in new browsers…
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WordPress code for highlighted category links
If you want to display a higlighted category to your visitors so that they know where they are in the site, use the following code, which checks to see if the page is of a certain name, category or if in the case that a single post is being displayed, it checks if one of…