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Guzel Pro Magazine is the newest generation of Guzel Magazine. If you are using Guzel, you will surely like this one too. Basically there was very minor CSS / template work done in the new generation but the Guzel pro version is released today with many powerful features which will be explained below

Guzel Pro has all the features Guzel magazine has plus …

This theme is totally free!
Guzel Pro now has a professional control panel - no more template editing!
Guzel Pro now has all required plugins built in - no more plugin installation / activation!
Guzel Pro now has language support built in - add any language, instant conversion of your theme
Guzel Pro now has multiple stylesheets support - Change the default look instantly by changing your stylesheet file from Control Panel. Automated, and very flexible.
Guzel Pro now lets you select featured categories, and which categories to display home page posts from - no more entering of IDs..the categories are neatly listed in dropdowns in the theme control panel.
Guzel Pro now provides 3 fully-widgetized sidebars.
Guzel Pro now fixed many CSS issues from old release.

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As you might have already heard WordPress 2.7 is currently in development and people have already found out one of the major changes soon to come out for release. This major change features a revised navigational layout with a left-hand navigation column that was designed in response to user feedback on the rather poor navigations from writing, managing, design and plugins. Because the navigation came straight from the Crazyhorse prototype that was developed quickly for usability testing, it is still a work in progress.

Navigation sections and labels are still being decided, and as you would expect there are lots of good ideas floating around. The WordPress mission has of late been to increase user involvement, in fact, users are now able to suggest some design decisions. WordPress has even created a survey intended to give users the ability to play a part in deciding how the navigation options should be developed (grouped and labelled). If you are a user of WordPress and want to have your opinion heard, take the survey.

However, with a quick Google search there are already many navigational plugins that can move the tabs to the left side as the new update soon will. So if your not one to wait or don’t like to upgrade to a new version straight away this could be a nice alternative.

If you are struggling to find a way of publicizing your blog or website because you simply do not want to spend money on advertising, or don’t have any you could spend, then why not try some free and easy ways that will get targeted visitors to your website.

One method of getting well targeted and recurring traffic is to use a site such as Yahoo Answers, or Wiki Answers. People regularly ask all kinds of questions on there, so search for a question that is related to your particular niche (the topic you write on) and see whether you can help to answer their question and link to your blog, where they could find more information or related material. People will appreciate you being able to help them and see you as being knowledgeable in the field, so they are more likely to visit your particular page (note that the links you post are no follow so it is purely for traffic).

Yahoo and Wiki Answers can be very useful to use in this way, and yet are often overlooked. If you are finding it hard to get a lot of people on your site then this is one of the best ways to get some traffic but not have to pay for it. Other methods include using sites such as stumbleupon and digg, but that comes under social bookmarking.

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True Elegance is our new elegant wordpress theme with elegant colours, style, and design. True Elegance is a 3-column wordpress theme with fully widgetized sidebars. The theme also features recent activity in a visually appealing panel on top which can be controlled via AdminCP.

The theme has been coded to allow for advertising positions on top of the sidebar so you can use the ad space for your sponsors easily. Moreover, the theme is highly customizable and flexible to any kind of content.

Users will be able to subscribe to your blog easily through the RSS Subscription form which presents two ways to subscribe: rss feeds, and email subscription.

True Elegance theme features:

This theme is totally free!
This theme comes loaded with control panel to setup feedburner and top panel
Elegant, premium theme design
Ad Optimized Theme
Highly Customizable WordPress theme
Valid xhtml strict code, CSS code
Widget-ready theme - Three Widgetized Sidebars
Cross-browser compatibility: Passed test on IE6, IE7, FF2, FF3, and Safari
Free Dedicated Support via Forums - Powered by Gabfire
User-friendly commenting system with gravatar support
Trackbacks and Pingbacks are seperated from User Comments
Clean, well commented code

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I was preparing myself to upgrade Gabfire to the latest release of WordPress 2.6.1. But the funny thing, when I went to download latest package, I found that WordPress 2.6.2 is available.

It seems that Stefan Esser has reported a critical bug which requires a new release to be built up. It is important for you to upgrade your blog if you allow open registration on your blog.

A short quote from WordPress development blog about the latest release
Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand(). With his help we worked around these problems and are now releasing WordPress 2.6.2. If you allow open registration on your blog, you should definitely upgrade. With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another user’s password to a randomly generated password. The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit.
You can check the complete list of changes on this page

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People continuously announce that content is king, if you do a search you are likely to find that the top sites all have a lot of content. However, the pure issue here is that these people are making these assumptions on a correlation research basis. This means that people see top sites that have a load of content and assume that, that is the best way to the top, unfortunately it is not that easy.

When someone does a search they are looking for information and the search engines job is to provide them with relevant websites. Now this is where people start to over simplify, think of it this way;

Take 10 new, equal sites, all 10 use the same keywords, all are 10 pages long with the same content, one of these sites has 100 backlinks for each keyword, which ranks the highest? The one with the most relevant backlinks will, it’s that simple.

Yes create great content, unless you want them to press back after a quick skim of your site, but do not underestimate backlink building. Warning, avoid link exchanges at all costs they are bad for ratings and can damage your PR in some cases of excessive link exchanging.

Here are a few simple things you can do to increase backlinks whilst still adding fresh content to your website.

1. Do you publish an ezine? If so add a file …

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Designing navigation is one of the most criticial aspects of building a website. No matter how much useful information as website offers, if the navigation is complex visitor will get confused. Web surfers are usualy click away and never return if they find that a site’s navigation confusing or convoluted because of not visible or misplaced links.

There is no doubt that a good navigation system will increase the number of pages viewed by visitors. Increasing the pageviews will bring more signups,, sales or new members which are the crucial ingredients of success for a website.

Here in this entry, we have collected various navigation menus designed with Javascript and CSS. All the following examples are very handy and easy to modify to suit your needs.

Hybrid CSS Dropdowns - Demo - Tutorial

CSS Sprites 2 - Demo 1 and Tutorial

Phatfusion - Image Menu - Demo & Download

Drag and Drop ordering in a TreePanel - Demo

LavaLamp jQuery Sliding Menu I - Demo and Tutorial

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