Articles by Mukund

Simple Accordion Effect Using Jquery: How to

August 4, 2011

There are quite a lot of tutorials on the web about the accordion effect. But, none appears to be clear. Being a webmaster & web designer myself, I find it difficult to understand the tutorials out there. So, I thought I should explain this stuff in the most simplest way possible and that’s what we have got in this article too. To those who do not know what an accordion effect is, just take a ...

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How To Make Entire Block Clickable Using jQuery?

August 3, 2011

I’m sure many web masters out there link various websites on their blog. Some tweak the links with a background color while few keep it simple! What if we make an entire block click-able rather than just the anchor tag present in the block. To better understand about the same, take a look at the “Random Posts” section on the footer of SML. You’ll notice that only the links are click-able but not the entire ...

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Most Commonly Used Custom & Web Safe Fonts By Web Designers

August 3, 2011

When it comes to designing a template, the first and foremost thing one should consider shall be the font that he/she is going to use on his/her blog. Well, there are hundreds and thousands of custom fonts available out there on the web. I’ve just hand picked few of them that are most commonly used by web designers. To play safe, I’ve also enlisted the top 8 web safe fonts whose importance shall be highlighted ...

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Robots.txt file on BlogSpot Blogs: Google SEO Mistake with BlogSpot Search Pages

July 30, 2011

Well, it’s quite interesting to know that there’s a different story behind the robots.txt file for blogs run on blogger. Basically, a robots.txt file is placed on the root directory to block the search engines from crawling specific directories or pages on your blog. By this way, webmasters take control to let the spiders know what directories are accessible and what needs to be indexed. The most common question asked by BlogSpot bloggers is: How ...

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How To Display Author Profile Picture On Google Search Engine?

July 27, 2011

It looks attractive to see an author image appear next to post titles with a small snippet on the homepage of a blog (like you see on Shoutmeloud). What if the same happens on Google Search Engine as well? Yes, we can achieve the same effect on Google Search Engine using the Authorship Tool. Just take a look at the following screen shot for better understanding. Isn’t it cool? Well, definitely yes! Why should I ...

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How to Design Attractive Subscription Box With Hover Effects Using CSS Sprites

July 26, 2011

Subscription box is a must have for any blog or website to let readers connect with you on various social networking site. Though to make most out of it, it’s important to have an attractive subscription box on your sidebar or at any prominent space around your blog post. In this article, I’ll illustrate the same effect but with a more practical example. I’ll be using the same technique to create an attractive subscription box with ...

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How to Stay Productive as a Web Designer when your not hired?

July 25, 2011

Being a freelance web designer and hired does not mean that, your always equipped with work. At some point of time, I’m sure you’ll be out of work. May be you just completed a project and you have some spare time before you start with the next one. At worst cases, you don’t have another one. What do you do, during this period? Well, in this article, I’ll discuss few ways in which you can ...

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How to Be A Better Designer

July 22, 2011

It isn’t a strange fact that many webmasters turn into web designers these days because it is quite obvious that a webmaster tries to tweak some design stuff, more often than not, to improve the appearance of his blog. Gradually, he tends to learn web design and seeks a path into the world of web design. Only a handful of people reach great heights choosing web design as their career while many do not. So, ...

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