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When Is the Right Time to Redesign your website?
2008-02-26 00:08:00 If you run a website, chances are you often wonder whether it is the right time to do a total redesign of the layout of your website. Here are some points to consider: Redesign for a specific purpose Be sure why you want to redesign your website. A design serves a specific purpose. If you ... More About: Website , Time
Facebook WordPress Theme
2008-02-25 23:46:00 If you are looking for a Word Press theme and love Facebook , why not use a Facebook WordPress theme with your blog. The Facebook WordPress theme incorporates all the best design elements of Facebook’s layout. The theme that I stumbled upon is free and is ready for download from http://foxinni.com/my-themes/facebook-lay outs-wordpress-theme/ More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Theme , Theme
Good Website Design Practices
2008-02-22 18:07:00 In my last article I wrote about Website design guidelines. Here are more pointers that I found useful and you may want to consider when designing your website. More About: Design , Websites , Good
Website Design Guidelines
2008-02-22 16:17:00 The more time I spend updating my website/blog, the more I am aware of how important design is. Bad design alone can turn away a visitor. You will be surprise how visitors react to good design. Apart from good content, I think design is the next most important aspect of a website. Here ... More About: Design , Website , Guidelines
Psychic Search WordPress plugin
2008-02-22 01:14:00 Once again it is plugin Friday and today I want to share with you a WordPress plugin that I discovered recently. It is called Psychic Search and it is available for download from www.maxblogpress.com. It is an interesting plugin because it will secretly discover what your visitors want to read on your blog. ... More About: Wordpress , Plugin
Online WordPress Theme Generator
2008-02-20 00:07:00 If you are looking for the quickest way to create a Word Press theme, look no further. The online Wordpress Theme Generator does exactly that - it creates Wordpress themes that you can instantly deploy. Like all generators, there are limitations but let’s take a look at what the Wordpress Theme Generator can do ... More About: Online
Online WordPress Theme Generator
2008-02-20 00:07:00 If you are looking for the quickest way to create a Word Press theme, look no further. The online Wordpress Theme Generator does exactly that - it creates Wordpress themes that you can instantly deploy. Like all generators, there are limitations but let’s take a look at what the Wordpress Theme Generator can do ... More About: Online
The end of the road for HD DVD
2008-02-19 23:06:00 It is official that Toshiba has dropped its plans for HD DVD. Companies like Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Netflix and others have abandoned HD DVD for Sony ’s Blu-ray. The long format war between Toshiba’s HD DVD and Sony’s Blu-ray is over and the winner is Blu-ray. More About: High Definition , Blu-Ray , Playstation 3
The Eye-Fi card
2008-02-18 21:43:00 The Eye-Fi card is a memory card that uses built-in Wi-Fi technology to transfer photos direct from a digital camera to a computer or photo-sharing website. The technology is a brainchild of a California-based company Eye-Fi. More About: Card
CommentLuv WordPress plugin
2008-02-15 23:50:00 Since I started using WordPress, I have been using plugins to extend the capability of my blogging platform. I use at least a dozen plugins but I have not written much about how I use them with my blog. I have decided that once a week I will dedicate my time to write ... More About: Wordpress , Plugin , Comment
New banner is up on my site
2008-02-14 00:05:00 I completed uploading my new banner just a while ago. Designing it has been a challenge especially in such a short time frame. In this post I would like to share my experience designing my site’s top banner. I am an application developer and not a designer but I do enjoy doing ... More About: Photoshop , Site , Banner
Banner design for my blog
2008-02-12 23:18:00 A few days ago I wrote a post on the importance of a WordPress theme. Today I attempted to create a few banners that I think will suit this website. I have not made any decisions yet, I am still getting used to using Photoshop CS2 and I have some other ideas that ... More About: Design , Blog , Banner
The importance of a WordPress Theme
2008-02-10 19:31:00 Since I launched my blog more than two months ago, I have experimented with various layouts, themes, moved things around from the right column to the left column, etc. You name it and I have tried it. One thing I haven’t tried is designing a theme for my blog. I selected the current ... More About: Wordpress , Wordpress Theme , Word , Theme
The release of .NET-based microkernel Operating System
2008-02-07 20:13:00 Here is an interesting piece of news for all you .NET techies. Yesterday a .NET-based microkernel operating system was released by Chad “Kudzu” Hower, a former Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism team member. It is named Cosmos, an acronym for C# Source Managed Operating System . Cosmos is an independent project from Microsoft ... More About: Software , Operating System , Release
WordPress 2.3.3 released
2008-02-06 22:31:00 The guys at Word Press have released WordPress 2.3.3 and is asking users to upgrade now. WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. More About: Wordpress , Released
WordPress spam-fighting plugin
2008-02-05 19:41:00 After getting enough daily comment spam to annoy me, I decided to activate Akismet, the WordPress spam-fighting plugin. Akismet is short for Automattic Kismet and comes installed with the WordPress installation. I thought that it would be automatically activated but I checked my plugin list and it wasn’t. So what does Akismet do? It is a spam-fighting web service created by Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and his team. Akismet checks the content of WordPress comments and trackbacks anonymously with an online server. Then determines if the comment is a spam or not. Each time someone comments on your WordPress blog, the comment is submitted to the Akismet web service. It has algorithms that will check and work out if the comment is a spam. (more…) More About: Wordpress , Spam , Plugin , Fighting
Securing your WordPress installation
2008-02-03 12:13:00 My blog was recently hacked through an unsecured plug-in, WP-Forum. Since the incident, I noticed a lot of other WordPress blogs were also hacked. I decided to do some research to learn how to secure my WordPress installation and I came across a very useful WordPress security whitepaper that you can download from ... More About: Wordpress , Security , Alla
Securing your WordPress installation
2008-02-03 12:13:00 My blog was recently hacked through an unsecured plug-in, WP-Forum. Since the incident, I noticed a lot of other WordPress blogs were also hacked. I decided to do some research to learn how to secure my WordPress installation and I came across a very useful WordPress security whitepaper that you can download from blogsecurity.net for free. It is technical but I recommend that anyone who owns a WordPress blog to read it because there are quite a lot of useful information that you can implement on your blog and secure it from hackers. (more…) More About: Wordpress , Alla
EntreCard browser
2008-02-01 10:51:00 Do you want to know an easier way to drop your EntreCard? Createlf has created an EntreCard browser. Createlf has create a simple and yet effective way for users to frequently drop their EntreCard. What is the EntreCard browser? The EntreCard browser is a website that lets you visit blogs with the embedded EntreCard widget ... More About: Browser
EntreCard browser
2008-02-01 10:51:00 Do you want to know an easier way to drop your EntreCard? Createlf has created an EntreCard browser. Createlf has create a simple and yet effective way for users to frequently drop their EntreCard. (more…) More About: Browser
Monetize your parked domains with WhyPark.com
2008-01-30 18:35:00 Do you own more than one domain name? Many of us do. Some of us own more than 10 or 100 domain names that are parked and not developed into websites. What if I tell you that you can easily use a service that will enable you to convert the parked domains into content-rich websites and earn money with Google AdSense. Would you be interested to find out how? Recently, I read Joel Comm’s blog* and he shared an idea on how to monetize parked domains through a web application called whypark.com. (more…) More About: Domains , Monetize
Monetize your parked domains with WhyPark.com
2008-01-30 18:35:00 Do you own more than one domain name? Many of us do. Some of us own more than 10 or 100 domain names that are parked and not developed into websites. What if I tell you that you can easily use a service that will enable you to convert the parked domains ... More About: Domains , Monetize
Viral marketing with Entrecard advertising network
2008-01-29 15:41:00 Recently I created an Entrecard account and I have been using the service for almost a week. I find the Entrecard business model provides an effective platform for small bloggers to advertise their site. For those of you who don’t know about Entrecard, here is a brief summary. (more…) More About: Marketing , Advertising , Viral , Network , Viral Marketing
Viral marketing with Entrecard advertising network
2008-01-29 15:41:00 Recently I created an Entrecard account and I have been using the service for almost a week. I find the Entrecard business model provides an effective platform for small bloggers to advertise their site. For those of you who don’t know about Entrecard, here is a brief summary. Entrecard is a free social advertising ... More About: Marketing , Social Networking , Advertising , Viral , Network
Tips from Matt Cutts to protect WordPress installation
2008-01-25 21:20:00 Since my site was hacked yesterday, I have been paying more attention on making my WordPress blog more secure from hackers. For starters, I have upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2 which fixes some major security flaws. I also googled to find out if there are other tips I can implement to protect my blog from further attacks. I came across Matt Cutts’ post on how to protect your WordPress installation. For those of you who don’t already know, Matt Cutts works for Google and is the head of Webspam team. He has also posted many videos on YouTube which are really worth watching if you are into SEO. (more…) More About: Wordpress , Tips , Alla
Tips from Matt Cutts to protect WordPress installation
2008-01-25 21:20:00 Since my site was hacked yesterday, I have been paying more attention on making my WordPress blog more secure from hackers. For starters, I have upgraded to WordPress 2.3.2 which fixes some major security flaws. I also googled to find out if there are other tips I can implement to protect my blog ... More About: Wordpress , Tips , Matt , Matt Cutts , Alla
Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.2 to fix urgent security flaw
2008-01-25 16:05:00 I have upgraded my blog from Word Press 2.3.1 to 2.3.2. According to WordPress’ blog, v2.3.2 is an urgent security release. 2.3.2 fix includes urgent fix a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. supresses error messages that can give away information about your database table structure. limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC ... More About: Wordpress , Security , Urgent
Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.2 to fix urgent security flaw
2008-01-25 16:05:00 I have upgraded my blog from WordPress 2.3.1 to 2.3.2. According to WordPress’ blog, v2.3.2 is an urgent security release. (more…) More About: Wordpress , Security , Urgent
Web site hacked
2008-01-24 18:33:00 My blog was hacked this morning. I came in to work, looked at my web site and all that was displayed was a message from the hacker: Hacked by VexD Legalize Weed! (more…) More About: Site , Web site
Web site hacked
More articles from this author:2008-01-24 18:33:00 My blog was hacked this morning. I came in to work, looked at my web site and all that was displayed was a message from the hacker: Hacked by VexD Legalize Weed! I looked at my stats and discovered someone googled “wordpress forum plugin by fredrik fahlstad. version: 1.7.4″ and the person spent 22 minutes on my ... More About: Wordpress , Site , Web site 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
