The sidebar is a very important part of your blog. It appears on every page of your blog and is usually the main method visitors use to navigate around your blog.

The sidebar code may seem quite daunting at first but when you take the time to break it down, its very easy to understand. I hope this guide will help you understand the sidebar more and will help you modify it to your needs.

A look at the basic code of the Sidebar

Some themes use a different method however most themes…

Frappr! is a useful tool which can be added to your blog, myspace or website. Its a very simple idea. You place the code on your website and you and your readers can see where all your readers are from. You can see this information in Google Analytics but it isn’t just a dot marking where visitors are from - your visitors can join and can add a picture of themselves and a link to their blog too.

The site is still in beta stage but i can definately see something…

There are loads of blog communities where you can vote for your favourite blogs. I thought i would bring attention to two of the most popular sites - FuelMyBlog and Spicy Page.

Both of these sites work very in a similar way to Digg. You place an image on your blog to vote for your blog like the image to the right.

Fuel My Blog

FuelMyBlog reminds me of those million dollar websites that sprung up a year or so ago - you know the ones where you had to buy an ad on the…

I found a new plugin via Jakel called WP Text Ads.

In brief, the plugin lets you sell text ads directly on your blog posts and pages. You can download a limited version of the plugin for free however the full commercial version is $127 (how did they come up with that figure?). Clearly, this plugin is aimed at blogs with good traffic so in that respect $127 is pretty good value - i dont think it would take too long to recoup the cost of buying the commercial version. Particularly if…

I really enjoy reading blogs and comment frequently on them as well. Most of my comments are a paragraph or too long however i have found myself reducing the number of very long comments i write.

The main reason is that i post them here! Take this post for example. I read a really good post on Brian Heys blog the other day about sponsored reviews. I started to write a long comment in reply but i found myself writing more and more and his post gave me some great ideas to post…