Wordpress Installation guide for Ubuntu 10.04/Mint isadora Linux(part 2):

According to wikipedia.org:

“WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plugin architecture and a templating system. Used by over 12% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites, WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today.”

                                                     (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress)

For more information on wordpress visit wordpress.org.

Installation:

First download wordpress-3.0.1.tar.gz from wordpress.org and extract it using archive manager to your desktop,now open your terminal and use the following commands to copy extracted folder from desktop to your web document root folder (see part 1 for web document root directory).

Wordpress installation guide for ubuntu 10.04 /Mint Isadora Linux(part 1):

This installation guide has two parts, this part contains instructions for installing the prerequisites: Apache,MySql,php5 and phpmyadmin.

Installing apache:

#sudo apt-get install apache2

To ensure correct installation point your browser to http://localhost/ and press enter, you will see “it works” in your browser window.

Building Rounded corner boxes with shadows using CSS3:

With CSS3 now its easier to present the web content in more fascinating ways with less effort,the newer version includes a lot of new properties like border-radius ,text-shadow ,box-shadow,box-sizing and resizing ,word wrap and new attribute selectors etc.for more information you can visit www.w3c.org.
Here is a little example of rounded corner box with shadows :

CSS3 Rocks