May 14, 2013
Between Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram and more, we already document and share quite a lot about our daily lives, without really thinking about it. They are lifelogs of sorts, but without any sort of structure or consistency to them. While some might not agree, the very act of documenting all of this information makes for a fascinating record of your own life.
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May 11, 2013
We all knew it was coming. Back in February Twitter announced that it would be shutting down Posterous by the end of April. Some bloggers saw it coming from the day that Twitter acquired the popular blogging platform. With that day finally here, if you’re still looking for an alternative to meet your blogging and automated sharing needs, we’ve come up with a list of 6 viable alternatives.
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May 9, 2013
After a rather thorough and taxing look at both Blogger and WordPress.com it's time to evaluate the possibility that some of you might want to switch from one service or the other. That or you floated in on a wave of search traffic, looking at whether this is possible. It's a rather simple operation, but one that requires a bit of testing to see how your content will look on a different platform.
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May 3, 2013
Previously, I recommended the use of SSH to migrate a locally developed WordPress site. While this works in most cases and has never failed me yet, it's a little riskier if you're moving directories. Today, I'm going to try out 3 plugins which can semi-automate the entire process of easily migrating a WordPress site for you. I'll be migrating data from an old domain of mine, to a new site, both running on a virtual private server.
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April 29, 2013
For a while now, Posterous has been been the home for thousands of blogs – including a few of mine. They started out marketing themselves as a way to easily blog, thus likely acquiring many less-tech savvy bloggers looking for a solution to get their blog started fast. And because of that, I feel there definitely needs to be instructions as to what you do now that Posterous is going to be gone forever… tomorrow, April 30th.
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April 25, 2013
The two undisputed kings of the free blogging sphere are Google's Blogger and the content management system-turned-host WordPress.com. While both offer what every free-thinking democracy-guzzling thought-cannon wants – a place to express themselves – there are some core differences in each service. Both WordPress.com and Blogger are workable free solutions, but which is the right one for you? This detailed breakdown of each service should hopefully help you decide.
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April 24, 2013
There's quite a lot of ways you can use WordPress beyond simply using it as a blogging platform. We've already taken a look at a list of 5 things you might not have known you could do with WordPress. The platform lends itself to versatility and there's a huge variety of websites out there that you can't even tell are created using WordPress, and there are five ways you can put the platform to use that goes beyond simply content management.
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March 29, 2013
There is this fascinating service called Tint, and I actually struggle to accurately describe it - that's how unique it is. Tint is 50% about promoting your social networks, but it's also 50% about providing website content. It's both. It should be a paradox that should cause the Universe to implode and create a black hole - but it doesn't. Somehow, Tint pulls it off and makes it work - it brings social content and web content together in one place.
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March 27, 2013
There are times when you realize that an ad or maybe some other content needs to go into an area of your blog that isn’t so easy to get to. Sidebar content is one thing, and usually fairly easy to modify, but when it comes to other areas of your website that might be dynamically generated by code, inserting single content isn’t so simple.
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March 24, 2013
With Wordpress now powering 1 in every 6 websites, they must be doing something right. For both experienced developers and the complete novice, Wordpress has something to offer you. But just as you start on your path of Wordpress nirvana, you're going to hit a stumbling block: "Do I need wordpress.com or wordpress.org? What's the difference?!" This question comes up a lot, so I've decided to write a definitive guide.
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March 22, 2013
The hardest thing you'll have to do if you opt to not host your own blog is decide on the service you want to use. A few years ago this was easy - LiveJournal and Blogger dominated, providing a generation of teenagers with a place to moan about the wrong in the world but these days there are more services to choose from than ever before, each with a niche.
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March 21, 2013
There are an abundance of quality free "sign-up" blogging services scattered across the Web, with big names like Tumblr, WordPress.com, Blogger and Posterous getting increasingly popular as their numbers grow. It wasn't always this way, and a few years ago the go-to platform for bloggers was the humble standalone WordPress blog. The open source blogging engine is still massively popular.
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March 6, 2013
I've been a long time user of the Mac text editor, MarsEdit for writing and posting blog posts to WordPress. In fact, I'd fall to my knees in tears if I had to use the online WordPress editor to write posts. While MarsEdit does pretty much everything I need, a new Mac editor called PixelPumper looks like a very stylish alternative that is available for free in the Mac App Store (note - the app is free while the developers of the application are ironing out the bugs).
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February 20, 2013
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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February 5, 2013
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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