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 was horrible. ... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
There were several old combinations that worked well together but since WordPress 2.3 came out many of them stopped working properly or stopped working altogether. Fear not there are replacements out there. Unlike many of the regurgitated idiot lists currently out there, everything I list will work... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
The question of whether you should make theme adjustments is always a difficult one to answer. It is even be harder to do and not negatively affect your onsite readers. That being said here are my thoughts. Limit major theme changes to no more than once a month. Anymore than once a month clearly... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
It has been another behind the scenes weekend for me tweaking the theme over at Brad’s Tiny World and editing Pack hopefully some agent will just fall in love and be on my side for a six figure advance. Alright I know I really looking at probably a $5k advance at best, which means I have to sell... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
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 template. Many people... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
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... Read the rest of the What is Blogging Article
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... 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
