As you may have read in Kevin’s recent post, Blogger is in the process of adding some major new features to the system. Currently available to those logging in through Blogger in Draft, the most prolific features include:

• A comment form beneath blog posts
• An import/export feature (which can also be used as a backup system)
• Star ratings, which readers can use to rate your posts
• A brand new post editor, with much greater functionality

In this post, I’ll go over these major updates in more detail, to explain how they can be of benefit…

I have read a lot of posts on blogging and web development related blogs in the last few weeks. Many of these blogs are only a few months old and are unfortunately making the same mistake in their ad area.

One technique bloggers use to advertise an ad space is to place a default ‘Advertise here’ banner in their sidebar however I have seen many blogs putting 2 or more of these ads on their sidebar. There is no need to place more than 1 banner ad on your blog…

Conditional tags allow you to control the information displayed on a page depending on whether a certain criteria is met. They’re always used in a standard PHP if statement and there are conditional tags for almost every check that you could think of.

The PHP Code

The PHP code used with conditionals is a standard PHP if statement. ie.

if (condition) {
statement here;
}

Using a Conditional Tag

The most used conditional tag I use is the tag to check if the page the user is currently on is the front page. When WordPress is being…

Forms can be a bit of a pain to style, in the old days tables were the method of choice to align everything just right, but this is the future; CSS OR DIE! P.Diddy will come to your home and kill you if you use tables for presentational markup. So in order to prevent a Diddy disaster here is some helpful information, I accept thanks for saving your lives in cash and gifts off my Amazon wish list.

You might already know that I’ll be writing on social sites like stumbleupon, sphinn etc. for the next few weeks on every Saturday. Before reading this post and also the other upcoming posts, I recommend you to read my last week’s post on 3 things you have to do before submitting a post to a social site.

In every social site, having many friends and fans is one of the main factors that have direct effect on how popular you are going to be on that site. There are many ways…