November 30, 2008 – 6:01 pm
Typealyzer will analyze and suggest a Jung-Myers-Briggs type. It also shows a brain activity analysis which looks cool.
Forty Plus Two was classified as INTJ – The Scientists while Zen and more was classified as ISTP – The Mechanics. I think both should be taken with a grain of salt but it shows that sticking to [...]
August 31, 2008 – 6:52 pm
Through The Blog Herald I was pointed to Smashing Magazine and When To Use Magazine-Style Themes For Blogs?
It is a great and long post that deals with
• Key Differences
• Why Are More Blogs Moving to Magazine Themes?
• Pros and Cons
• Considerations for Choosing a Style of Theme
• Tutorials for Designing a Magazine Theme
• Resources for Grid-Based Design
• Free Magazine-Style Themes for WordPress
• Premium [...]
August 27, 2008 – 7:43 pm
NETTUTS writes about The Best Web Development Books – As Voted By You!
Dumb Little Man has a post with 21 Must-Read Tips To Write Better Web Content.
Update September 4, 2008.
Chris Garrett writes about 3 Great New Books to Buy Today.
Update November 9, 2008.
NETTUTS writes about 50 Must-read Books on Web Development.
August 17, 2008 – 9:39 am
WordPress introduced Post Revisions in version 2.6 which results in lots of posts (each revision) getting stored in the database. The feature is nothing I need or use and after seeing the result in my database size I looked for ways to disable it.
In How To Turn Off Post Revision In WordPress 2.6 is the [...]
August 14, 2008 – 9:58 am
I subscribe to ProBlogger and got Authentic Blogging in the mail. That post leads to The Authentic Blogging Manifesto which is a great post that I can relate to. Maria Gajewski tells about how she got hooked on writing for social media like StumbleUpon and forgot about the real reasons for blogging. She has created [...]
I am in the process of upgrading my blogs to WordPress 2.6. That gave me a strange problem in some of my blogs, I got a blank screen when trying to access the admin part of WordPress. The strange thing was that those two themes (my own tweaks) that caused problem in admin mode worked [...]
Blogger, owned by Google, runs checks to find spam blogs at Blogger. Obviously something went wrong since they posted this in Spam Fridays:
While we wish that every post on this blog could be about cool features or other Blogger news, sometimes we have to step in and admit a mistake.
On Saturday they posted this in [...]
I use Google Alerts to keep track of who is linking to my blogs and sites. Since you can create an alert for any search term I also use Google Alerts to watch some key words for me. It is an easy way for me to get emails when something interesting pops up on net.
I have taken time to work on my blogs, behind the scene as well as how they look. Part of that work was creating a list of WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs. Some of those plugins – Best Foot Forward, Random Posts Widget and Tag Functions – give me functionality that I [...]
I have created a page with the WordPress plugins that I use at my blogs. There are posts about various plugins here, now I have a list of what is currently used. My intention is to keep the page up to date.