Once you’ve got an established blog you’ll most likely want a contact page with a contact form on it. Whilst there are a few plugins that do this for you, I tend to find that they either bloat your pages with additional CSS code in the header (CSS code should always be put in an external stylesheet whenever possible), badly written form markup, or probably the worst culprit, the PHP code doesn’t validate the information in the form to help prevent spam or email header injection.

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Some random news and ramblings for you all on this relaxing Saturday afternoon

Looking to hire a blogger

I’ve added a new marketplace to the Blogging Tips Forums. I plan on adding a few rooms but the first one I have added is the Looking to Hire room. This room will let blog owners advertise about paid and unpaid blogging positions they have available. There aren’t too many places where blog owners can do this for free so I thought this would be a nice addition to the site.

Link : Looking to…

Today is turning out to be a good day for bloggers. Shortly after posting about PepperJam offering bloggers $10 for posting about their entry into the Inc 500 list, Nate Whitehill emailed me to tell me about the 1 anniversary of Unique Blog Designs. To celebrate this milestone UBD are having a competition.

There’s an 8gb Apple iPod Touch and 4 copies of their latest theme (UBD Citrus) up for grabs! Entering the competition is easy. You get one entry for leaving a comment on this post and 5 entries for…

PepperJam Network emailed me today about a great offer which they are offering to affiliates. They are offering $10 per post to every blogger who writes about their entry into the Inc 500 list which officially ranks PepperJam as one of the top 100 fastest growing privately-held companies in the United States of America.

Attention Pepperjam Network Referral program Affiliates and Bloggers.

I’d like to encourage each of you that have a blog to take advantage of Pepperjam’s “Blogger Incentive Program” by sharing the news that we’ve been ranked as one of the top…

Google emailed me today to let me know that they have migrated my account from FeedBurner to my Google account. This is good news as it allows me to use Google’s new Adsense for Feeds option. This means that I now access my feed stats at feedburner.google.com instead of FeedBurner.com but the look and feel of the control panel is the same.

Here’s the confirmation email they sent me :

Hello Kevin,

Success! As you requested, we have migrated your FeedBurner account to
your requested Google Account.

You may now access all of your feeds by…

Over the past few months, Google-owned Blogger has seen more than its fair share of updates and enhancements. From a whole new look to the Blogger dashboard to inline comment forms and star ratings, it seems that Blogger is giving more attention to the needs of its users.

On Friday, Blogger users were happy to see yet more updates added to the recent list of enhancements: post “reactions”; Google Gadget integration and a whole new look for the regular Blogger dashboard.

Let’s take a look at these new features in detail, along with…