Category Archives: Blogging

Analyze your blog for fun

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 … Continue reading

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WordPress and magazine-style themes

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 … Continue reading

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Book tips

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 … Continue reading

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WordPress and how to disable post revisions

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 … Continue reading

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Authentic blogging

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 … Continue reading

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WordPress 2.6 and blank admin screen

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 … Continue reading

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Blogger at Google admits mistake

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 … Continue reading

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Use Google Alerts to keep track

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 … Continue reading

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What about blog sidebars?

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 – … Continue reading

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My WordPress plugins

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 … Continue reading

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