Archive for Archive for September, 2007
What’s My Feedburner ID?
Feedburner is an absolute dream come true for a blogger. In fact, I would put in in the top 5 tools that every single blogger needs in their arsenal. It tracks the number of feed subscribers you have, it allows you to offer feed updates via email, and it even has professional site [...]
WordPress 2.3 Theme Backward Compatibility
Over at BlogginPro, the question was posed:
My biggest question is “what will happen if we take the newly updated theme, and place it on a blog running a previous version of WordPress?”
Is there some way to check which version of WordPress is being run, or will we have to put out a WordPress 2.3 only [...]
The Overlooked “Tag” Tags
OK, I admit being a sucker for all the “tag hype” in the WordPress Community too. I’ve seen all the WordPress bloggers (that is, bloggers who specialize in WordPress tips) try to be the first to write a tutorial on how to implement tagging in your WordPress theme. I’ve even been tempted to do [...]
A Piece of the Action
There were actually more submissions than I had thought there would be, but still … I decided to submit one of my articles to the DailyBlogTips.com contest to see if any of his readers might be interested in coming over this way and trying out this blog. I think I give practical, understandable advice [...]
Web-Safe Fonts For Your Blog
No matter what blogging platform you use … even if you’re just building a straight HTML website … there are relatively few fonts that are safe to use. You can’t just find a “pretty” font on your computer and use it on your website. You have to do your research first. Hopefully, [...]
WordPress Quick Tip: Turn off Smileys
This is just a very quick tip for your WordPress blog. One of the most annoying things about WordPress’s default settings is the fact that smileys are turned on by default. What’s a smiley, you say? When you put characters together like a colon and an closing parenthesis, WordPress replaces the text [...]
3 Ways to Optimize Your Blog Homepage
Back when I wrote “Good Design Starts with the Homepage”, I didn’t include much in the way of tips for actually achieving that perfect homepage. The fact is, there is an endless list of possibilities to optimizing your blog’s homepage, but I believe that if you do these 3 simple things, you’ll be on [...]
Free Advertising for a Limited Time
Because the page doesn’t get too many pageviews, I thought it would be beneficial to announce it in a blog post as well. For a limited time, I’m offering free advertising in my sidebar. I need to test out the system of advertising, and in order to do that, I figured that instead [...]
Know Your Audience: The Browser War
It never ceases to amaze me the different audience you see at different websites. Case Study:
For instance, this blog. I just recently launched this site as a means to release my WordPress themes and write tutorials and tips on web design, WordPress themes and blogging. Obviously, this blog appeals to a wide, [...]
Ranking High by Leveraging the Power of PageRank
I had always read about the different ways to rank high on google’s result page for certain keywords. Simple stuff like SEO optimization and anchor text for linkbacks.
But just in the last few days, I’ve seen this site go from not ranking at all for the search term “nathan rice“, to now being #5. [...]
