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I have a lot of great things to say about Wordpress. It’s an internationally popular piece of open source software that allows anyone to start their own blog or website. It’s powerful enough to be extensible by seasoned coders, yet simple enough that tech-illiterate people can still benefit from it. We even have a mini-guide for starting your own Wordpress site. However, as with all Internet-related software, there will always be security holes that need patching.
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In the world of search engine optimization, there are countless theories, rules, techniques and endless speculation across the blogosphere. There are some awesome SEO experts out there, and there are many more scammers, fraudsters and worse. It’s unfortunate, but in a field where the rules can get complex and may change every year (or month), [...]
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Growing up, I created dozens and dozens of blogs on nearly every subject that interested me. I've had software development blogs, video game blogs, religious blogs, mini-blogs for team projects, small blogs for my inner circle of friends. You might be running a blog right now, or you may be thinking of running one. If so, listen up! One of the best advancements in browser technology over the past decade has been in plugins/extensions/addons.
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If you’ve got a company database full of product data, connecting that data to a barcode system can be incredibly useful. Perhaps your warehouse workers need a quick way of looking up the product location, or maybe they need to quickly find out the purchase price for a full box and not by unit. Whatever the situation, integrating barcode reading facilities can be an expensive and arduous task, but it doesn't have to be.
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Share plugins are a dime a dozen in the Wordpress repository, but most aren’t worth the time it takes to check out the screenshots. I’ve done the hard work for you here, and gathered the absolute best for your consideration. All you need to do is make sure your content is worth sharing - there are no plugins to do that for you.
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If you're looking to create a simple website, but don't want to spring for hosting, you probably already know how challenging it can be to find free and decent hosting. One possible option to look into is to use the online backup service Dropbox to host your website. We've already taken a brief look at how you can use Dropbox to host a website, but if you're looking for an in-depth guide, you've come to the right place.
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When it comes to blogging platforms, it's a crowded industry, with the likes of WordPress and Tumblr definitely taking the lion's share of users looking for an easy way to showcase their work. Founded in New York city just last year, Jux is somewhat of a newcomer, but offers a set of pretty impressive features that might have you ditching your preferred platform in favor of this one.
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These days it's not enough to have a beautifully designed website, especially if you're a photographer, artist or graphic designer. These days if your site isn't responsive, chances are you're losing a significant part of your audience who tend to do most of their surfing on smartphones or tablets. Responsive designs, for those of you who don't know, are designs that automatically adapt and scale themselves.
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Having a popular blog or website can be fantastic, and one of the most popular ways that many people opt to inject a bit of adrenaline into their traffic numbers is by either purchasing advertising space on other websites or ad networks, or otherwise getting either an ad or a banner published on other websites throughout the Internet.
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Stumped? Lost for words? Are you often in the position of being unable to get yourself to write anything, even though the deadline is fast approaching? Yeah, writer's block sucks – and it happens to all of us. Most writers, after suffering a few days where it got really bad, make plans to get around the problem as best as possible. Now is your time to do the same.
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Around ten years ago I got hold of my first mobile device, a HP Pocket PC that enabled me – wireless networks provided – to get online and browse the web in a very basic version of Internet Explorer. It wasn’t long before I was more interested in accessing the backend of websites rather than [...]
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Have you ever found yourself with several browser tabs open while blogging, searching for references, images or related information to support and link to in your article? You probably have. How great would it be if that information came to you while you were writing? Zemanta strives to help bloggers with this every day. It works on most browsers and blogging platforms, making it practically universal – perfect for bloggers.
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The sites here offer several black and white, simple Tumblr themes for you to display your work. Also, most of the themes are free! Granted, there are a few paid selections, but the free ones are every bit as good as the paid versions. They are clean, simple Tumblr themes that aren't distracting and are, for the most part, black and white. With that said, you'll have a lot of options to play around with them, and if you choose to modify them a little, there's a bit more of a free reign. Let's look through them.
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MakeUseOf serves hundreds of thousands of visitors everyday, and we do it all on Wordpress. Wordpress can and does scale from tens to millions of pageviews, but you’re going to need some heavyweight plugins and strategies to increase performance at that level. Here’s a comprehensive list of things you can do to speed up your blog, and the plugins you can use to do it.
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