NameCheap Contest this Friday!
This Friday, prepare yourself for another twitter trivia contest!
The prizes are: five domain names per hour, and for five winners will be eligible for the grand prizes that will consist of three MacBook Pros, a 16GB WiFi iPad, and a WiFi Amazon Kindle.
I’m a loyal participant in this NameCheap contest, just to let you know, I got this domain from entering their earlier contest. So there is a big chance you’ll find my twitter account enlisted in the winners list *LOL* (a little confidence won’t hurt, rite?)
How to Participate
To join this contest you have to fulfill these requirements (it is so damn simple):
- You have to own a twitter account, because that’s where we’ll play the game
- The question will be tweeted by @NameCheap, so make sure you follow them
- The prizes for domain names are actually funds for your NameCheap account, so make sure you register a NameCheap account (it’s free)
CSS Tips: Class or ID?
I work a lot with websites, and I’m having this fond for WordPress engine since the most thing that I should work with is how to re-design a theme. I’m not so good with image manipulation or graphic design, hence I work a lot with CSS and the template parts.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used for styling the site (HTML) elements. By declaring how an element should look (or behave), the work is becoming less. Name it fonts size, colors, how images looks, and event positioning certain elements, all is become much easier once the styling has been declared.
Styling the elements can be done either generally, or specifically. For instance when you declare a single CSS for <p> tag, then every time you use that instance it will styled as you declared. But when you need to create a different looks for another <p> tag somewhere on your page, then you can be more specific by using an ID or a Class.
The easiest way to tell the difference is by looking at the CSS part of your website. An ID is noted by using “#” (hastag symbol) while a Class is noted by using “.” (period symbol).
Subdomains VS Subdirectories
For you that host your website on your own domain name, there would be a time when you start thinking about creating a new group of information or simply trying to add a different website to your domain. And since a web-hosting service implements file management system (which involving files and folders), it is a common thing when people simply create a new folder to help them manage their content (and help others to see the differences).
Well, a well-organized web-hosting space is important, and yes creating a new folder to group things up is simply correct. But the way the search engine crawls your website is something that requires more of your consideration.
I landed on Matt Cutts’ explanation about subdomains and subdirectories in Google (read it here), and I learnt one conclusion;
If you’re simply trying to deliver a more-in-depth whatever your domain is talking about, then you can just create a new subdirectory (http://domain.com/folder)
Meanwhile, if you are creating a totally different website with content that doesn’t related to your primary domain name, then go for subdomain (http://subdomain.domain.com)
I found this is useful, because I am involved with numerous websites which sometimes required the right approach.
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