With the version 1.0.6 of Layers theme, it supports microformats. Though WordPress itself comes with some microformat structure in the form of tags (rel-tag), XFN in terms of blogroll links. Still, there many of them are left which can be used to increase the semantics of your code following the principle, data should be readable for humans as well as machines.

If you didn’t know about microformats

A microformat (sometimes abbreviated as uF is a web-based approach to semantic markup that seeks to re-use existing XHTML and HTML tags to convey metadata and other attributes. This approach allows information intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, calendar events, and the like) to also be automatically processed by software.

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In a bit more simpler meaning, if you have a software which can understand a web page written with microformat, it would be possible for the software to automatically recognize the informations like, contact information, geometric information, bookmarks etc.

If it is still not very clear, what will extra benefit will you get from it, just try operator firefox addon once with Layers theme. The theme uses hatom, hcard, XFN, rel-home, xFolk microformats.

The article by otto helped a lot for this update.

I am very happy to announce that my first wordpress theme Layers (call it contribution) is live at wordpress theme directory. Though some bugs were accidently left there, ( as a post doesn’t clear the floating element above it. so the image with float:left property just overlaps the other post ) I have uploaded the fix, so soon the version is going to change from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4

No doubt, I love WordPress.

So here we do have a really nice update from wordpress.org, that is wordpress themes directory. ( Which is for self hosted blogs ) It was a long awaited release as right now themes.wordpress.net is not functional. (Not accepting new themes for a very long time now). So the only way to release your theme was to publish it on your own site, or other web directories which never gave it a central spot. Read the rest of this entry »

Finally my first wordpress theme is now is about to release. Today’s time was invested in searching an open-source license for the same and rest was to convince me to use it. I had no confusion in my mind about themes commercial and non-commercial use. So had two obvious choices.

1. GPL
2. Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License Read the rest of this entry »

I noticed this effect long time back and was really stunned by it’s graceful beauty. For a quick quick introduction to fancy menu go to this page. Great mootools library of JavaScript shows it’s magic with very elegant semantic XHTML and CSS in this technique. Definitely a great read!

For the JQuery port of the fancy menu effect read this post or this post at meta20.net (aka Smooth Menu for JQuery)