Yeah right, not if you are talking about a blogging god. The one thing Bloggers need to do is realize that they have readers who want to see something new out of them every day. Frankly that is also the quickest way to burn out as a blogger, especially for those of us managing multiple blogs. There... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
I am surprised these days how many people still don’t know what an RSS/XML/Atom feed is. Almost every website be it a blog or anything else has some variation of that nice little orange symbol that looks like this: Okay now that you all know what those are, the question some of... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
Akismet This is the best in spam control there is hands down. Ultimate GA (Google Analytics) You can use the Google Analytics services without this plugin, but frankly why would you want to. It makes the service so much easier to use and, even better will write a lot of the code into your blog for... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
One of the best tools I have found of recent to help improve our blogging is the ScribeFire extension for the Firefox browser. It allows you to automatically post to your blog while surfing. It works for self-hosted WordPress, WordPress.com TypePad.com LiveJournal.com, and a few others. My hopes... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
Everyone needs to go have a look at their Technorati accounts today and make sure that their posts are getting indexed properly. Because of some flaws and coding errors, and down right hacking by theme designers your Blog may be at risk. Not only is Technorati not indexing, it can very well lead... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
The First thing you need to do when thinking about a theme is deciding who you are designing it for. There are a number of tools that will tell you what your visitor’s monitors resolution is set to and this is a key factor to consider. As often as not these days new computers come with a wide... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
You can have the coolest blog layout and even more impressive content, but without readers it is merely a vanity project. We all want lots of Google traffic because as everyone knows it is king of the search engines. The fact is when you are a noob Google traffic is going to be hard to come by unless... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
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WordPress 2.5 seems to be more particular than early releases to coding errors. One possible result is the loss of sidebars and footers. Elezend asked about this very problem on Lorelle on Wordpress, then again at Brad’s Tiny World. Elezend’s footer which contains MyBlogLog and Blog... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
The install of WordPress 2.5 is a pretty painless event if you can follow easy directions and don’t go out of your way to make things harder than they really are. I know what you are thinking thinking, why would anyone want to make things harder than they need to be. The answer is simple,... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
