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As web designers we have all welcomed the transition from 640×480 to 800×600 and finally to 1024×768 – the currently accepted web design “standard”. The extra horizontal and vertical space has allowed more content to be placed “above the fold”. Designs have gotten more sophisticated and images have been made much larger.
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An example of how to show latest Wordpress posts on static pages outside of the blog.

The basic idea is to assign each link a unique ID so that when they are placed inside a box with a specified class only the corresponding link will have the current state. This way you can have the same unordered list navigation code on every page or have it included and still apply the current state CSS.

Wordpress automatically adds the classes current_page_item and current_page_ancestor to the corresponding lines of the list that is generated from the template tag wp_list_pages. If you have multiple levels of pages you can use these classes to show and hide the expanded navigation and add current styles.

This error is usually fixed by double checking what the three questions ask on the WordPress installation error page.
WordPress Install Error
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

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The more recent versions of the popular blogging platform WordPress have been giving errors when trying to upload a file through the WordPress admin. The two most common errors seem to be “Unable to create directory” and “The uploaded file could not be moved to”. To fix these errors try this:
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Designing websites with CSS or cascading style sheets can provide advantages in allowing search engines to index your site more easily. It also gives web designers a nice, clean way to organize and format content. In this example, I show how to use CSS to use lists to organize and style vertical navigation.