http://bradtheblogboy.com a blunt blog about blogging - new theme being built Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:37:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry about the mess everyone.  I am making some changes around here this weekend and will looking at a few different theme designs to decide what I like and don't.   If the theme changes on you mid read sorry for any disruption. The current theme is the Freemium Theme by Ptah ... http://bradtheblogboy.com/theme/sorry-about-the-mess/ One of the least used and most powerful features of wordpress is the page template. The page template to make a long story short integrates non standard coding into your blog seemlessly. It is probably used most often as an archive page in free themes, but most of those free ... http://bradtheblogboy.com/theme/the-hidden-welath-in-wordpress-page-templates/ I was going through my Woopra stats not so long back when i noticed something very exciting and very unexpected.  My political blog, Brad's Tiny World, was receiving a lot of traffic from CNN and within a few days of watching that incoming traffic I started noticing them coming from ... http://bradtheblogboy.com/plugins/links-from-the-unexpected/ The biggest means to increasing regular readership is involving your occasional readers through a better comment experience.  These five pugins will do just that if you do it right. 1) Nofollow Free:  Without going nofollow free few small blogs have a hope in hell of drawing lots of comments straight out ... http://bradtheblogboy.com/comments/5-wordpress-plugins-that-drive-comments/ Those were the words I heard often enough at as kid when I was being cautious. I heard them from friends who tried to goad me into trouble making either with or for them. I heard them from many a male relative who simple mistook caution for timidity and ... http://bradtheblogboy.com/comments/quit-being-such-a-pussy/ Every blogger wants a reaction to their posts. Whether or not everyone will admit, this is the whole reason we do what we do it. It is no fun talking out of your ass if everyone ignores you. So ask yourself what are you doing for those ... http://bradtheblogboy.com/comments/what-are-you-doing-for-your-commentators/ I was recently had the unfortunate experience of using a one of my local libraries computers to access one of my blogs.  Not only are they still using IE 5.X they have very limited resolution.  Despite 17" monitors and a couple of 19" for the really blind folks the resolution ... http://bradtheblogboy.com/blog-contests/theme-building-challenge/ If you read my blog, it is most likely you are either a) a friend who is trying to get inside my head, or b) want to make money from blogging. I am going with the latter. You, like me, may be frustrated with Google for a variety of reasons ... http://bradtheblogboy.com/monetizing-your-blog/blogging-for-bucks/ BlogBoy doesn't often make political stands when it comes to the online world, but this is one that can't be ignored. There isn't a blogger alive who doesn't need to consider freedom of speech issues in fact. In Yahoo news this morning they write about public online spaces ... http://bradtheblogboy.com/hosting/cya-for-bloggers/ there may be a bit of downtime in the feeds and you may have to resubscribe to the Feedburner accounts.  We are transferring services between accounts, and Feedburner warned us possible interuptions.  We will transfer the account on 6/26 so please be advised. Thanks brad http://bradtheblogboy.com/non-seo/note-to-blogboy-feed-readers/