Whenever you're designing a website, it's generally a good idea to pay some attention to small details. Details can make the difference to a flat, boring, lifeless website, and a nice, usable, fun website.
Here are a few things to remember when working on the details of your site. If you follow some of these general guidelines, it can really help to improve a website to make it stand out a bit.
Google Analytics is a great tool for checking and analyzing website traffic. But at times it can be a pain to go through your theme, and find just the right place to put the tracking code. There are plugins that can do this, but they aren't really necessary to do this. Thanks to the magic of WordPress hooks, you don't need to worry!
With just about everything, there are certain best practices that everyone should follow. With CSS, these are some rules that both beginners and experts need to consider, to style your website designs the right way.
As you probably know, the Vancouver 2010 Olympics are just over a week away, and you'll see the logo on just about anything. Another huge part of their branding is their website, Vancouver2010.com.
I came across the Vancouver 2010 Olympics website, and after staring at the nice colour scheme for a minute, I also came up with a few ways that it could be improved even more.
A question was asked in the comments for "Make Your Own Ajax Contact Form" about preventing a PHP script from being accessed directly.
This can be done for security reasons. In the example of the Ajax contact form tutorial, it would be to prevent potential spammers from taking advantage of a security vulnerability.