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• FEATURE: Better visitor experience when clicking on a link/search or commenting. Especially when the server or the connection is slow. It is configurable in the WP Admin Panel. Thanks to Vijayendra Mohanty for suggesting it
• FEATURE: You can now disable the Left-Sidebar to have a bigger main column. Thanks to Becky Lai for the idea that is showed on www.sockparade.com

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• FEATURE: Configurable options in WordPress Admin Panel!
• SUPPORT: WordPress Widget support
• ENHANCEMENT: Made the TextSlider code much nicer. And works much better now.

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A minimal, simple, crisp, clear and light 3 column design. This plugin independent theme highlights the excerpt of the latest article on the home page. Continue reading

Because I had some spare time, I took a good look at the Google Personalized Homepage… It looks very much the same as Live.com at first sight (although loading speed of Google is much better). Be amazed about the tremendious amount of items and gadgets you can add.
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After releasing my AjaxBerlee WordPress theme George and Milan’Che reported problems with Google’s AdSense. This left me with a problem. Because new page requests in my theme are parsed over the old ones. Continue reading

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With proud I present to you ….. my theme. I finally decided it’s works good enough to be used by others. Continue reading

Cache is your friend, not the enemy

Internet Explorer handles AJAX responses different than other browsers. It will cache the response. The tendency on most articles I’ve read is: Caching is bad and you need disable caching!. No!!! Although Microsoft didn’t program Internet Explorer to respond according to RFC IE should do, that’s not an excuse to totally disable Cache. When visitors click on a link they expect something happens. Although AJAX makes the response time shrink, you don’t have any guarantee about the novelty of the content. Continue reading

I am an ajax-fan, in fact I watch every soccer match on TV. Ok, but that’s probably not what you want you are interested in .

I really start wondering how to improve the response time after I concluded that it would be allot of work to convert this theme to a lightpress theme (I had to make a lot of plugins to get it to work). Continue reading

Last week I had some spare time and took a look at the Ajax hype. Instantly my attention was drawn by the loaders and to say the least, the load time on the WordPress blogs. Since I wanted to implement Ajax at my site, it was a bit of a turn off.

I first looked of course at the Gianni Milanesi’s AjaxWP. This looks promising if you like some DHTML in combination with Ajax. It’s also easy to setup… so what’s the problem? Continue reading

When I updated to version 2.0.3 of wordpress, I came across a some ajax plugins. Live search 1.2 seemed great, but the version just did not work as described…. bummer… so I came across Ajaxsearch 0.1 and surprise, surprise, it actually worked. The idea behind Ajaxsearch, intentionally or not, is very smart. Continue reading