Archive for September, 2007

Dan Sweet has published an e-book titled The Job-Seeker’s Guide To Resume Search Optimization and the Internet-Age Resume. It is a long title but it says what this is all about.
What It’ll Show You How To Do: How To Upgrade Your Resume for the Internet-Age, Tap Into the “Hidden Job Market” and Get Employers To [...]

Over at Lorelle on WordPress is a guest post by John Pozadzides about the 5 Most Useful Administrative Plugins For WordPress.
I have installed Admin Drop Down Menus and it makes the WordPress dashboard much easier to work with.
In one of the comments they mentioned the DashBar plugin, I have installed that and try it out. [...]

Skelliewag.org is a newfound favourite of mine. Great content and a nice looking blog, Skellie also uses pictures in an elegant way in her posts. This is picked from the About-page:
Skelliewag is about creating content your site’s visitors will fall in love with. It’s about using simplicity to your advantage. It’s about being innovative, unique, [...]

I came across 50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog over at skelliewag. The post starts like this:
The 50 tips in this article will help you unclutter your sidebar, your footer, your posts, and your blog as a whole, and in doing so, enhance the simplicity and usability of your content-centered blog design.
My first thought was [...]

Lorelle has a post titled Heads Up News on WordPress 2.3 about the upcoming release of WordPress 2.3, due September 24. I am especially keen on the new built-in tagging feature.
Lorelle also writes about Tags Arrive on WordPress.com Blogs. If you scroll down she mentions tagging in the full (hosted) version of WordPress. She also [...]

David Airey has announced a $4,000 blog anniversary prize draw. David has created gold, silver and bronze awards plus has several more prizes. If I shall pick my favourite pieces without concidering Dave’s packaging I would love some of these:

Logo design from David Airey or from Tara Roskell of Graphic Design Blog.
Custom WordPress theme design [...]

Success from the nest has a great series of posts about the Hierarchy of the Successfully Self-Employed. The four levels are Freelancer (physiological needs), Contractor (safety and social needs), Expert (esteem needs) and Guru (self-actualization). The posts are as follows:

Part 1: Hierarchy of the Successfully Self-Employed
Part 2: Freelancing Is For Suckers
Part 3: All the [...]

I am catching up with my reading and also revisiting some posts. Here is a selection of posts that I find very useful.
ProBlogger has a guest post that has been submitted by Leo Babauta from Zen Habits (one of my favourite blogs) titled The 4 Pillars of Writing Exceptional Blogs. The advice sounds simple enough:
Create [...]

BlogRush is a blog syndication network that is out in public beta. It is a free service and traffic is built on ten levels of referrals. In other words, the amount of traffic you get depends on how much traffic the blogs in your tree have.
Alister Cameron writes about BlogRush: the Amway of the Blogosphere [...]

Lorelle posts about Displaying the Date in Your WordPress Theme. A useful post about different styles of showing the date, using it for copyright date and in the byline.
Ben Yoskovitz asks Do Bloggers Always Follow Their Own Advice?, I probably do not.
Meg gives us the basics in What is a Blog? and also writes about [...]

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