April 7, 2012
DreamHost has just teamed up with CloudFlare, a content delivery network so that DreamHost users can now activate a single checkbox in their admin panel to make their websites load significantly faster. ClouldFlare’s free offering includes a content delivery network with 14 locations around the world, improved security for your website, front-end content optimization, and [...]
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April 4, 2012
The Tumblr-Facebook relationship just got tighter with a new Facebook integration update on Tumblr. Tumblr is now an official Open Graph Facebook partner, which means that your Tumblr posts, comments and likes will appear on your Timeline, News Feed and Ticker as what they are – Tumblr activity. Up until now, a Facebook-Tumblr integration did [...]
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March 20, 2012
Discussion – it's the fuel that fires the Internet. How do you keep that flame going with your own blog? Even with the best articles possible, it can be tough for each and every writer out there. Maybe we should just take a second to think about how we can dive in and build some good conversation. What I have here are just five simple ways to keep the comments moving with your own blog.
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March 2, 2012
The humble 404 has been with us since the tubes that make up the internet were first plumbed in. Unfortunately in Wordpress, the default message is pretty much as unhelpful as you can get, so today we show you how to tweak your WordPress 404 error page to be a whole lot more useful.
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February 29, 2012
If you’re a blogger, the chances are that you use WordPress. There are two ways in which you can use WordPress, ideal for those with some technical know-how and those without. The first is to use the hosted blog service at WordPress.com, But for those who prefer more control over their blogs and have some technical ability, then the self-hosted option available from WordPress.org is probably preferred.
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February 21, 2012
Besides being a faceless entity whose words you only read based on snazzy headlines, I'm also a part-time human being! With that being said, I actually do look through all the sorts of comments you leave me, emails you send, and places you share my work (I believe that my fellow authors can say the same). So with that being said, I just wanted to tell you the kinds of feedback that I like after folks read whatever blog post that I've written.
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February 19, 2012
pChart is a remarkably advanced graphing toolkit for PHP. It’s free under GPL licence, highly customisable, fully object oriented, and more than capable of handling any data you throw at it. Let me show you how to get started with using it for your web app.
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February 17, 2012
AJAX is a remarkable web technology that moved us beyond the simple “click link, go to another page” structure of The Internet 1.0. It enables websites to dynamically fetch and display content without the user moving away from the current page. Making use of AJAX is quite easy to do from within the WordPress environment, and today we show you how.
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February 15, 2012
A quick scan of the Best of WordPress Plugins page will reveal some of the many unique and niche ways you can make your blog work harder. What if you already have a database of say, customer information, but you want to be able to query that data and display it within a WordPress template? Today I’ll be showing you just how to do that, safely within the WordPress engine.
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February 12, 2012
Everyday the onslaught to our freedom and censorship of the internet continues to escalate, but you can help. If you want to ensure certain sites remain available, then look no further than a new, free Wordpress plugin called RePress. It allows you to quickly and easily setup a web proxy without complicated programming.
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February 8, 2012
Recipress is a free, professional quality plugin for adding beautifully styled recipes to your blog posts. Since I’ve been told my Jalapeño bread is to die for, I thought maybe it would be worth adding the recipe to my Self Sufficiency blog - and this was the perfect solution to do that. Let’s take a look at this fantastic plugin, and a quick walkthrough on how to add and display your recipes.
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February 8, 2012
Let's be straight - blogging is fun and blogging is cool, there's no doubt about that. Of course, it can also be used by middle-school girls who believe that everyone in the world wants to know about the new pair of shoes they just bought. With this being said, I haven't really told you anything you should ignore when writing your personal blogs.
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February 7, 2012
As an occasional personal blogger, I have seen a lot of other folks in the blogosphere who just want to write personal publications that are not exactly meant for making money. I really like that, actually. We need more people who just want to share their stories in this world. However, some of you may be wanting to start your own blog, and I thought I'd drop a few of my personal tips.
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February 3, 2012
Wordpress is a brilliant invention, and has made it possible for more and more people to have amazing websites, with beautiful themes. However, there is still the matter of the content area, which still needs to be formatted for pictures, ads and well-spaced content. With a few simple steps, you can create your very own carefully formatted content template that will appear every time you click "Add New" in Wordpress.
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February 2, 2012
The difficulty with connecting with so many people across the world is time zones. You may want to be available to interact with your readership or to do business with potential clients, but at some point, you have to sleep. Enter the chat bot. A chat bot can serve as your front desk "digital secretary" when you aren’t available to accept IM requests.
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