Greg Rickaby over at Greg Rickaby on WordPress has written an excellent post about how to add Drop Caps to Genesis and Thesis, two of the most popular WordPress frameworks.
What the heck are Drop Caps? It's likely you've seen them even if you didn't know what to call them. See Image ---->
As Greg rightly points out Drop Caps are becoming quite popular in the Blogosphere. Fortunately, they're pretty darn easy to add if you're using either Genesis or Thesis.
For Genesis:
Drop Cap with CSS Pseudo-Class
.entry-content p:first-of-type:first-letter {
font-size: 40px;
color: #666;
padding:...
The New Yorker has an extremely interesting profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Jose Antonio Vargas was given unprecedented access to Zuck and conducted several interviews with him, his closest friends, and even his girlfriend. I have to admit, I love Facebook. It’s one of the most important sites in the world. However, Zuck scares me a little bit. I’m not sure what his real intentions are or if we should all trust Facebook as much as we do. But then again, Google scares me in the same way. One of the interesting things about Zuck is that his friends call him the “poorest rich...
Here’s Mashable’s founder and CEO Pete Cashmore on how he grew Mashable into one of the world’s most profitable and influential blogs.
var so = new FlashObject ("http://bizweektv.pb.feedroom.com/businessweek/bizweektv/pboneclip/player.swf", "Player", "425", "344", "8", "#FFFFFF");
so.addVariable ("Environment", "");
so.addVariable ("SkinName", "pboneclip");
so.addVariable ("SiteID", "bizweektv");
so.addVariable ("SiteName", "bizweektv");
so.addVariable ("ChannelID", "");
so.addVariable ("StoryID", "ddcb0e9ffa0953416a06e1cc644a7bbbc5fd16e3");
so.addVariable ("Volume", ".5");
so.addVariable...
The installable version of WordPress just reached version 3.0 , but the hosted version –- WordPress.com — has its own milestone to report today: 200,000,000 blog posts on the platform since its inception. That total comes from 11.4 million blogs that are hosted on the site, and in all, WordPress reports the site is seeing more than 260 million people visit its blogs every month (according to data from Quantcast).
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WordPress.com Passes 200 Million Blog Posts