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My rel=”external” does not work on my WordPress site?

admin — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:13:57 +0000

As most of us know it is good practice to make all the links that will leave the site to link out, to open a new tab or window so the visitor does not have to leave your site to visit the link. Turns out though, that the standard xHTML tag rel=”external” does actually not work on a WordPress site.

There’s a plugin you can use for this issue that then uses the target=”_blank” or target=”_new” properties, but these don’t actually validate by W3C standards, but there’s an even easier fix, paste a short line of jQuery in the header or your external js file.

$(function(){ jQuery("a[rel*=external]").attr( "target", "_blank" ); });

It will add target=”_blank” on all the rel tag with “external”. It will still be a valid xHTML tag because the DOM was already loaded when we added target=”_blank”.

> Source: WpLeet (WordPress Elite)

Pantone Inspired Christmas Tree Ornaments

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:21:24 +0000

We have seen the Pantone Espresso Cups, beautiful notebooks, Wall Racks, Messenger Bags, Cuff Links, Fla… well you get the drift.

It seems as though no matter whether they stick the Pantone color chips on it for whatever reason just looks good—or it may be just designers nerding out. And now we can hang them in our Christmas Tree too!

> Pantone Christmas Tree Ornaments by Seletti

Centrale Sans by Type Depot on sale for $49

admin — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 02:23:40 +0000

Original Price $250 now for only $49 for 14 font styles!

About the Font:

Centrale Sans is a beautiful sans serif typeface designed by Type Depot—a small type design studio based in Sofia, Bulgaria. This sans serif font features some playful touches that comes in various beautiful weights from extra thin to bold. As with most sans serifs its stays legible and readable at smaller sizes. The openness helps Centrale Sans to be pretty good performer as a web font as well.

Centrale Sans comes in pack of 7 weights plus their matching italics. You can purchase it for $49 instead of $250 for the whole family until 1st of November 2011.

> Visit the Type Depot website