It’s always interesting to see what plugins people decide to use, and decide to use on each project. I’ve used a variety of plugins, probably not as many as some but more then a few. Time and time again I find myself using these.

Maintenance Mode: This plugin adds a splash page to your blog letting visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Administrators still get full access to the site while the notice is up allowing you to make changes without people seeing the inevitable fumbling around behind the…

2007 is almost over and there are only few more days left. While many bloggers have already started to blog about their plans for 2008, I thought of writing a post on how to earn in the 2 remaining days of 2007 and invest it in 2008 for more success. Earning money is not over night is not very easy, but you can still try these steps and most probably you will earn.

1. Do A Product Review
This is one of the easy ways of earning money in the 2 more…

Vanessa wrote an interesting article on Twitter, how would it help in generating traffic, how could you manage your personal and professional tweets etc. A very informative post aptly titled “Everything you needed to know about Twitter” worth bookmarking.

Simon gives you five ways to control how Google displays your content.

Caroline MiddleBrook reviews the Role Manager plugin for Wordpress, where she discusses how to make proper use of it. 

Dustin Brewer puts up a nice list of 8 great digg like sites for designers. Mark writes an interesting post as well. He gives you 10…

Commenting your CSS is simple, just put them in between “/*” and */”, like so:

p {
   font-size: 1.3em;  /* Font size for main content */
}

That’s a single line comment, but you can do multi lines just as easily:

/*
  Blog Design Template Author:  Chris Coyier
  Authors Website: css-tricks.com

  Feel free to use, share, or alter this
  template in any way.
  Links are always appreciated.
*/

There are many different schools of thought on the use of comments. On one extreme, some people think they are just a waste of time and…

As the new year approaches, it’s good to look forward and make resolutions and all that, but it’s also fun to look back at the year we just spent. Your blog is an ideal forum for this, and you’ve got several options for how to consider the past year. Here are a few:

A Year In Review
Write short paragraphs on the most important items in several categories of your choice. You can write on a pop culture theme and review the year’s best film, book, album and news scandal. Or you…