I mentioned the other day how i found a new blog by a 20 year IT professional called Brian Heys. He has been writing some good quality thought provoking articles and im starting to become a big fan.

The latest post he has written is called Is it wrong to blog for money? and asks whether its wrong to blog specifically just for money. In particular, he has emailed two very popular blog owners who have thousands of readers and not one ad on their site. Im looking forward to hearing…

I posted an explanation of how Margins and Padding works in CSS earlier tonight.

I thought it would be good to expand on Margins to show how they can shape your blog theme.

What better example than the Funky Red theme i designed for Blogging Tips to show you how margins can work.

Blogging Tips Funky Red Margins

I set the main frame at a size of 1000 pixels. I use to always set my websites at a size of 770 pixels to accomodate 800×600 resoultions. However, with monitors coming down in price over the…

If your coming form an HTML background you’ll have an idea of how margins and padding work in CSS.

Margins define the distance between a property and everything around it.

Padding defines the distance between a property and the content within it.

Margins

You can define margins by pixel length or percentage. You have the option to define all margins as the same length, the oppposing margins as the same length or individually define top, right, bottom and top.

So if you wanted to define a margin of 10 pixels all around the element you…

The Get Recent Comments Wordpress Plugin is one of the most useful plugins ive used for wordpress. Ive got a feeling a lot of its features will become standard in Wordpress in the future.

The get recent comments allows you to show the latest comments and trackbacks.

If you look down the right hand column here you will see i have the latest trackbacks and comments listed seperately. This was achieved using the Get Recent Comments plugin. It gives you a huge amount of options in which you can control the way comments…

As you can see, i have updated the site to a new funky red style. I was previously using a free wordpress theme i found until i designed my own. I had modified a theme released by SapiensBryan called AdsMinded (Thanks Bryan!). It was a good theme but i wanted to move the site along and give it its own identity.

I mentioned in a previous post that i was working on a new theme a few weeks ago. Well that one got scrapped and i went back to the drawing board…

About a month ago, John Chow posted a challenge on his website entitled ‘Make Money, Review my Blog‘. The general idea was that a blogger would link to his site with the search term ‘make money online‘ in 2 sentences he had pre written. In return he would then link back via posts on his blog. It should be noted that is blog is very popular and gets a lot of traffic.

To his credit, i don’t recall anyone doing something like this on such a scale in the blogging world…