New Bootstrap Version by Twitter

Today Twitter released a new version of their popular html/css boilerplate for webpages. A good time to introduce my favorite bootstrap features …

1. Icons, Icons, Icons

Bootstrap includes a fat icon sprite with 120 small icons from glyphicons.com. all have transparent background and are available in black and in white.

2. Inline Labels

Put some highlights in your texts with inline labels.

3. Real Button Porn

Buttons in different colors, with and without dropdown and in groups or lonely.

… and what is your favorite feature from twitter bootstrap?

Image Watermarks in WordPress

Here a quick and easy way to put watermarks in your images. Just copy the code in the function.php of the active theme and you can watermark your pictures in wordpress admin.

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Firefox 4 – Neue HTTP Header

Mit der neuen Version des Firefox wurden einige neue HTTP Header eingeführt die Entwicklern die Arbeit etwas erleichtern sollen und den Benutzer besser schützen.

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Translate your Site with Google Translate and jQuery

With the new Google Translate API and the jQuery Plugin from Balazs Endresz you can add more language versions within seconds.

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WordPress Quicky: Use the [Shortcode] API

Another quicktipp for wordpress plugin developers. With the shortcode API you can easily provide additional commands for wordpress authors …

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WordPress Quicky: Exclude Categories

Another quicktipp for wordpress theme developers.

If you want to exclude one or more categories from a page (startpage, category-page), you can call the query_posts function with negative category-ids …

<?php query_posts($query_string . '&cat=-1,-2,-3'); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    <!-- POST -->
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

WordPress Quicky: Register Sidebar Widget with 3.0

Another quicktipp for wordpress plugin developers. Registering a sidebar widget can end with a fatal error if you use the code from the wordpress documentation …

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Use Google Closure Compiler Local with PHP

In “Google Closure Compiler with PHP” i described how you can use the compiler online via http. Now i will show how you do it local on your server with the java command line application …

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Google Multiple Sign-in aktiv

Google hat jetzt das angekündigte Multiple Sign-In aktiviert. Endlich kann man mit unterschiedlichen Benutzern auf verschiedenen Google Diensten angemeldet sein ohne das man mehrere Browser geöffnet haben muß. Multi Sign-In funktioniert derzeit nur mit Gmail, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Sites, Google Calendar und Google Code, weitere Dienste können folgen.

Das neue Feature muss auf der Account-Seite aktiviert werden und ist noch nicht überall aktiv.

Multi Sign-in available

Google Ranking Checker Class in PHP

Check out the new version 1.2.0 of the class! It supports locale settings and is released under a creative commons license.

New Google Ranking Checker »

The only goal for an SEO is a good or very good google ranking. To ensure this you have to monitor your rankings and compare it to the positions of your competitors. With the Google AJAX Search API and my little PHP Class you can easy build a Google Ranking Checker …

The class needs an Google API key for the AJAX Search API (get it here) … it’s just one field and a click and you can start. You can check multiple keywords for multiple domains or urls, just pass this two arrays to the check() method.

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