Monthly Archives: May 2009
Links Roundup – May 14th 2009
Links Some good posts from the last week which I recommend reading Publish Your Blog To Amazon Kindle & Make Money – You can now publish your blog on Amazons popular Kindle device. Amazon set a subscription rate (usually a few dollars a month) and give you 30% of the profits (which is very low in my opinion). Still worth uploading your blog though. Contributing to WordPress, Part IV: Ideas, Opinions, Feedback – Sarah tells you how you ...
Continue readingQuantum Physics of Subject/Verb Agreement: Special Problems
Writing Okay, so I’m not going to cover Quantum Physics today, but subject and verb agreement is, I do believe, closely related. Recently we’ve dicussed interrupting words, why a sentence has to have subject and verb agreement, and compound subjects. This week we’re going to talk about some special conditions that may arise. Remember those indefinite pronouns like, “anybody, anyone, everybody, few, both, all, any, most, ...
Continue readingFeed Your Twitter Without a Second Thought
Blogging Earlier this week I mentioned the value in scheduling your time well as a blogger, and being efficient when managing your Twitter account so you don’t become too drained. One way in which to do so is to automate some of your Twitter activity, either through RSS feed import or a third party service that lets you create tweets and have them update at a scheduled time. Feed My Twitter is a relatively new service that lets you do both of these ...
Continue reading7 Awesome WordPress clone themes
WordPress Themes One of the great things about the infinite extensibility of WordPress is the endless array of choices you have as to how you want to display your content. That is one of the reasons that cloning is so popular in the WP themer community. So popular is the idea of cloning major websites into WP themes that it has even lead to the creation of new WordPress marketplaces such as StyleWP, a community dedicated to providing cloned themes. For those of ...
Continue readingPractical Password Advice
Blogging We’ve all heard the advice before. When picking a password be sure to not choose a word from the dictionary, make sure to use letters, numbers and symbols and never use the same password for multiple items. All in all, it’s good advice, but the realities of the Web are much more complicated than that. If we could all remember a string of garbled text for every site we visit, our online lives would likely be much more secure. But as ...
Continue readingWhat makes a WordPress Plugin Great
WordPress Plugins One of the core philosophies of WordPress is to keep the code as light and fast as possible but to provide a rich framework for developers to add to the product. This concept is a key reason for the huge and constantly growing universe of WordPress plugins. In talking to WordPress users I’ve discovered that almost universally folks are pleased with the plugins they use. However, there are plugins that work and then there are plugins ...
Continue readingBlog Themes Club Teaser
Design & Coding Over the last month or so myself and Sarah have been working on a new project called Blog Themes Club. Our aim is to release Premium WordPress Themes at affordable prices. Customers will have the option of paying for themes individually or paying a little extra to join the Blog Themes Club, which will allow them to download several quality themes. All customers will get priority support in installing and editing the theme. This is something ...
Continue readingBlogging With Sincerity
Blogging Sincerity – A word not commonly used or understood in much of today’s business world. It generally means to express one’s opinions, thoughts or ideas honestly and truthfully. In our world of self-promotion and personal gain it can be very difficult to acheive success blogging while staying sincere. The concept of sincerity is essential though for every blogger who truly wants to be successful. To illustrate the concept of ...
Continue readingSubject and Verb Agreement with Compound Subjects
Writing In my recent post “Subject and Verb Agreement: Interrupting Words”, I mentioned that many people make the mistake of trying to have the verb agree with the word it’s closest to. Now we get to compound subjects and the earlier statement sounds almost like a contradiction. So let’s see how bad we can disfigure compound subjects. Compound subjects are joined by certain words to indicate they are compound. Words like and, or, ...
Continue reading5 Ways to Stop Using Twitter
Blogging Given the opportunity, I could spend every waking moment during the day managing my Twitter account. But I have other work to do. And every once in a while, I also have a life. So how do you pull yourself away from Twitter, so you won’t be distracted day in and day out? Not only will you get some other work done, but you’ll be less exasperated about your Twitter experience and more likely to effectively manage your Twitter account ...
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