Monthly Archives: May 2009
Spelling Woes
Blogging, Writing I’m not trying to be picky, but when it comes to spelling (which is something I’m terrible at but I have someone to make sure I don’t sound like an idiot) I expect companies to have it together. When I see something on the Internet that is spelled incorrectly I can mostly chalk it up to the fast paced society that we live in and the need to get things out on the web as quickly as possible. But when I see something that has been ...
Continue readingWhy Headlines Are Important
Promote your blog, Search Engine Optimisation It’s well known that one of the best ways to get your blog noticed is to employ some form of Internet advertising and one of the best ways to get the word out is through article marketing. Articles are a perfect vehicle to expose your business for several reasons and when you’re looking to use article marketing as your means to draw traffic to your site there are three things you need to keep in mind about why people use the Internet ...
Continue readingWhat Is Your Blog Backup Plan?
Blogging There are many tasks to be done in running a blog; these tasks include: writing, marketing, advertising, hosting, design and much more. Time and effort all go into making your blog the best it can be. What would you do if one day all that work disappeared? What would you do if your database became corrupted or you lost all the changes you made to your theme? One task that every blogger should practice is – backup their blog. Why ...
Continue readingWordPress theme frameworks
WordPress Themes WordPress theme frameworks are themes that allow you to change around and restyle the elements of your theme through an options page. They essentially allow you to customize your theme without having to use the code editor. But these days a real framework is a theme that has connectivity to social media like Twitter and Facebook, is built for child themes and supports microformats. If there’s one thing that WordPress is truly renowned for, ...
Continue readingTreat Your Blog Like A Baby
Blogging Blogs and babies have several things in common. Understanding these similarities can help prepare you to be a better blogger and be more successful in reaching your individual blogging goals. The first similarity between blogs and babies is the time factor. If you want to have a blog, you should be ready to make a commitment. Sure, it’s a lot easier to just abandon a blog than it is a baby, but it still makes sense to put some thought into ...
Continue reading4 Social Bookmarklets That Go Above and Beyond
Social Media Bookmarklets are neat little tools that people often forget about. They usually do short and quick tasks like adding a web page to your favorites or to a social bookmarking site. Even though most bookmarklets are simple, the possibilities are practically endless. So, I wanted to point out a few that go above and beyond and, may just become a tool that you cannot live without. Bit.ly Sidebar Bit.ly is a URL shortener that is growing in popularity ...
Continue reading5 Mac Blogging-Related Apps I Paid For
Software & Programs I have to admit it, even though I am a Mac user, I tend to be something of a cheapskate when it comes to my software. It isn’t that I am opposed to paying for software but that, even on the Mac, there usually is a great solution available for free of charge. However, there are at least five applications that I’ve fallen in love with and have gladly paid for, either full price through their stores or as part of one of the Macheist ...
Continue readingThe Anima WordPress Theme In Action
Design & Coding 2 days ago I previewed the first 3 themes from Blog Themes Club, my new project with Sarah. Our flagship theme is Anima (You can see the demo of it here). Tonight I decided to use the theme for my new Twitter Blog Time To Tweet. Because I was already using widgets in my previous theme and had a logo, customizing the theme literally took 3 minutes. Other than adding a small link to the footer template and excluding some links from the header ...
Continue readingWidgetise Your Theme Part II
WordPress Coding & Design Last week I wrote about how to widgetise your theme, and explained how to turn your sidebar into a dynamic sidebar, allowing you to add widgets from within your admin panel, rather than manually coding them into the sidebar. We can now take this one step further and create multiple sidebars/widget ‘blocks’. These don’t have to always be a full length sidebar, they could be two or three sections in the footer of your site, or ...
Continue readingBlogger Users-Enable Readers to Save Posts to PDF using Web2PDF Online
Blogger, Design & Coding One of the most interesting and useful Blogger hacks I’ve recently discovered is the ability to save Blogger posts to PDF. In my own blogs, I tend to write long posts and tutorials, so I feel it benefits my readers to save or print off these articles for later use. So after stumbling across Web2PDF Online, I immediately set to putting this free service to good use. Web2PDF Online offers a free service for bloggers and web publishers which ...
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