Monthly Archives: April 2007
Is it wrong to blog for money?
Blogging I mentioned the other day how i found a new blog by a 20 year IT professional called Brian Heys. He has been writing some good quality thought provoking articles and im starting to become a big fan. The latest post he has written is called Is it wrong to blog for money? and asks whether its wrong to blog specifically just for money. In particular, he has emailed two very popular blog owners who have thousands of readers and not one ad on their ...
Continue readingHow to use Margins to get the shape of your blog theme
CSS I posted an explanation of how Margins and Padding works in CSS earlier tonight. I thought it would be good to expand on Margins to show how they can shape your blog theme. What better example than the Funky Red theme i designed for Blogging Tips to show you how margins can work. Blogging Tips Funky Red Margins I set the main frame at a size of 1000 pixels. I use to always set my websites at a size of 770 pixels to accomodate 800×600 ...
Continue readingMargins & Padding
CSS If your coming form an HTML background you’ll have an idea of how margins and padding work in CSS. Margins define the distance between a property and everything around it. Padding defines the distance between a property and the content within it. Margins You can define margins by pixel length or percentage. You have the option to define all margins as the same length, the oppposing margins as the same length or individually define top, ...
Continue readingGet Recent Comments
WordPress Plugins The Get Recent Comments WordPress Plugin is one of the most useful plugins ive used for wordpress. Ive got a feeling a lot of its features will become standard in WordPress in the future. The get recent comments allows you to show the latest comments and trackbacks. If you look down the right hand column here you will see i have the latest trackbacks and comments listed seperately. This was achieved using the Get Recent Comments plugin. It gives ...
Continue readingBlogging Tips goes funky red
Site News As you can see, i have updated the site to a new funky red style. I was previously using a free wordpress theme i found until i designed my own. I had modified a theme released by SapiensBryan called AdsMinded (Thanks Bryan!). It was a good theme but i wanted to move the site along and give it its own identity. I mentioned in a previous post that i was working on a new theme a few weeks ago. Well that one got scrapped and i went back to the ...
Continue readingReview me and ill Link back to you….Enjoy it whilst you can
Search Engine Optimisation About a month ago, John Chow posted a challenge on his website entitled ‘Make Money, Review my Blog‘. The general idea was that a blogger would link to his site with the search term ‘make money online’ in 2 sentences he had pre written. In return he would then link back via posts on his blog. It should be noted that is blog is very popular and gets a lot of traffic. To his credit, i don’t recall anyone doing ...
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Promote your blog Ive been meaning to join MyBlogLog for a while but never got round to it. I found a great site im sure you’ll ll like called JohnTP. SilentBits, another site im sure you’ll like, uses a theme released by John. John’s site shows the latest readers of his blog via MyBlogLog. I soon noticed that a lot of great blogs use them including Darren at ProBlogger. So i decided to give it a try tonight and i must admit, it’s way ...
Continue readingThe Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Site News I was pleased at the number of downloads the themes i released got and i hope that everyone who downloaded the themes enjoyed them. Whilst most people have kept the copyright links on there have been some who have removed the links. ……OK, I just found one but it was a bit dissapointing. I hope to release more themes in the future and i hope that those who do appreciate the themes being released and keep the copyright links. I will ...
Continue readingA Blogger’s ‘Code of Conduct’
Blogging Tim O’Reilly last week posted his ‘Call for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct‘. He has since drew up his first Draft Blogger’s Code of Conduct 2 days ago. He makes a lot of interesting suggestions including ‘We won’t say anything online that we wouldn’t say in person.’. Hope you enjoy the read. * Call for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct * Draft Blogger’s Code of Conduct
Continue readingWhat can you offer?
Blogging Are you struggling to get traffic to your blog? Are your posts getting lost in the blogosphere? No doubt there are other blogs which cover the same topic as yours. In some genres it can be hard to stand out from the crowd. Don’t be too disheartened though and try and think about what you can offer that other blogs don’t or simply can’t. For example Write about topics which they haven’t covered yet Write about topics which ...
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