Hello fellow netizens!

Rounded corners have their uses but sometimes we need to go back to simple blocky designs. Swift comes with rounded corners implemented through CSS in the navigation or menu areas. However, you can see that Bulalo has no soft, rounded corners anywhere.
So, how do we remove the rounded corners from the nav bars? Satish, creator of Swift, was kind enough to provide the following instructions:
1. Go to Style.CSS, find and remove the following code under NAVIGATION STYLES:

#nav1{ -moz-border-radius-bottomleft:10px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright:10px;
-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:10px;
-webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:10px;}
#nav2,#commentform label.comment,h4.postcomment{ -moz-border-radius-topleft:10px;
-moz-border-radius-topright:10px;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius:10px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius:10px;}

2. Replace with the following code:

#commentform label.comment,h4.postcomment{ -moz-border-radius-topleft:10px;
-moz-border-radius-topright:10px;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius:10px;
-webkit-border-top-right-radius:10px;}

The Style.CSS is accessible via CPanel. It is found directly within the Swift theme folder. We didn’t delete the original code though. Simply commented it out (putting the code between “/*” and “*/” like this ==> /*– code here –*/) in case we wanted rounded corners again.

Easy as pie! Try Swift now! Download it here.

CRAP or NOT?

Hello fellow netizens.

There were a lot of changes with this blog. First was the new domain (we were formerly ReapMoneyOnline) and then this new theme we are in. Took us some time to find the theme that we feel will meet the needs of this blog and its readers. We wanted something simple, we wanted something easy, and we wanted something fast! We got Swift!

Swift is a newcomer to the free WordPress theme scene and, truthfully, it isn’t perfect, yet. However, the beauty of this theme lies not in maturity or being feature-filled but in the complete support of its creator, Satish, to Swift users.

Satish actively solicits ideas from Swift users, incorporating them into future revisions of the theme, without losing sight of the goal of making it the fastest and easiest theme to customize. Swift, therefore, has the potential to be THE bloggers’ theme of choice.

Nuff said, see for yourself. Download Swift here and visit the support forum here.

Is this post crap or not?

We once had an interesting conversation in a webmastering forum. We asked if forum members will click on a bare affiliate link. Most of those who replied said they won’t. One particular member was insistent to the extent that he would prefer affiliate IDs to be cloaked and hidden from him in order to click on a link.

However, hiding affiliate links isn’t only about getting clicks. Sometimes we need to hide links that are too long or too ugly. For those who want to hide affiliate URLs in WordPress blogs, we found two (2) plugins that’re easy to install and use (yeah, we tried them a while back):

1. Hidden Affiliate Links.

2. GoCodes.

Hope somebody finds them useful.

Oh, we’d like to ask too if people would prefer to click on affiliate links whose IDs aren’t hidden…

The new WordPress 2.7 admin dashboard is loaded with eye candy. However we wanted something that will access the individual menus faster. Something that have some fly out functions.

Fortunately, we got introduced to the Fluency Admin 2 dashboard theme. It makes the WP dashboard friendlier to the eyes with its gray shades and, yes, it got menus that flies out the side of the bar.

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Fluency is a plugin so it installs like other WP plugins. Here are two screenshots we borrowed from the developer’s site.

Note: This post is not about wordpress admin blank, wordpress demo admin, or wordpress admin section css formatting.

Spam comments are all over the blogosphere but their favorite target seems like the make-money-online and web development niche. ReapMoneyOnline still gets a lot of spam with multiple porn and drug links but lately there were more creative varieties like the following, which got us fooled the first time:

1. “I found your site on faves.com bookmarking site.. I like it ..gave it a fave for you..ill be checking back later.”
2. “I regularly Check your blog and find your articles interesting.. keep the good work up.”
3. “Sunday In searching for sites related to AdSense but more specifically to %KEYWORD, I found your site which has great content.”
4. “I liked your blog, I will return with more time, greetings.”
5. “found your site on del.icio.us today and really liked it.. i bookmarked it and will be back to check it out some more later ..”

ReapMoneyOnline also got the following hits from Google: “comment*luv en*abled” and “this*blog*uses key*word*luv.” The asterisks were added to disguise the words. For anybody familiar with the CommentLuv and KeyWordLuv plugins, the mentioned keywords appear in the comment form. Seems like a lot of enterprising folks are specifically targeting comment-friendly blogs.

Well, for those who are using CommentLuv, the plugin now has an option to use images instead of text to remind commenters of its presence. For KeywordLuv, we tried the blackhatters’ trick of disguising a URL with asterisks. Althoug, it will probably have little effect on reapMoneyOnline now since the relevant keywords are already in the SERPs.

Oh, we have a particularly endearing spam comment… “Dear friend, i find your post, very interesting. I run a website related to porn industries, and such a information are very valuable.” Honest fellow.

Got some memorable spam comment to share?