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Blogger/BlogSpot Themes

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I am in no way an expert in Blogger or BlogSpot, but I am passing along to your a nice free article on how to write a theme there since I know some of you blog there.
How To Create A Blogger/Blogspot Theme by Brad
This tutorial will cover the steps needed to create your own blogger [...]

New Blogs to Subscribe To

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I found two new blogs (new for me) that have really given me some insight which I will try and expand on later, but for now you really should be reading these blogs or getting the feeds.
First Is Copy Brighter, which is full of great tips on reputation building.  Zac Johnson is very knowledgeable with [...]

The Power of Twitter

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I promised a post not so long back on how to make the most of Twitter for blogging.  In the mean time a couple of big name blogs ShoeMoney and ProBlogger have gotten into twitter pretty hard and can give you their takes on the networking with your fans side of it better than I [...]

Permalinks

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Permalinks for those of you who don’t know are just what they sound like, permanent links to everything in your blog. The WordPress default, which I have temporarily reverted too, looks something like this http://domain.com/?p=123. Prettier examples look like http://domain.com/2008/04/18/sample-post/ or http://domain.com/category/sample-post/ There are however problems when making this switch on occasion as I am [...]

Deterring Spam

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We all know it and we all hate it, and believe it or not we have all participated in it to some degree as internet noobs. There are several ways to deter spam on a blog. First is the use of plugins, I like Askimet WordPress. it works really well and used [...]

The Daily Round Up

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Here is your daily round up of everything you should have read today, but didn’t because you were jerking all morning, napped this afternoon, farted around with your new theme project this evening, watched idol, blogged about idol, wondered where all this traffic came from on The Other Blog, fooled around some more with your [...]

Two New Plugins for me

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WordPress Excerpt Editor
Excerpt Editor lets you easily make post excerpts from all your posts and pages. With a host of options that will allow you to customize the excerpts including one to let you show the latest post in its entirety and the rest in excerpt or even giving you the entire home page [...]

On The Seventh Day He Rested…

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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 [...]

Brad’s Essential List of WordPress Plugins

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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 [...]

Blogging Made Easy… Easier… ish

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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 were dashed that [...]