Search Engine Optimization (SEO) was such a buzzword in the early 2000’s because most web folks noticed a change in behavior in the internet users. What’s that behavior? People used search engines as their primary starting point in their... 

Any of you remember podPress ? Yes, I’m talking about the popular podcasting plugin developed by Dan Kuykendall of MightySeek which halted development back in 2007. PodPress was supposed to have resumed development back in August but two months... 

More and more people are now using their mobile phones to access the internet. Noticing this growing trend, the Wordpress team has released a new upgrade that makes Wordpress.com blogs more mobile friendly. When a mobile phone views a Wordpress.com... 

Blogging for profit has been around since the early part of this decade but for some bloggers, blog monetization is often taken for granted. Especially when the global financial markets started crashing one by one last year, the diversification of  how... 

This may sound familiar to some bloggers: You’ve been blogging for almost a year now in a pretty uncrowded niche. You’ve been thinking of nice topics to blog about and your writing is pretty OK. But when you look at your web traffic stats,... 

A blogging platform used as a content management system (CMS) is not really new. This blog has outline several reasons why WordPress as a CMS is feasible. Open source systems like WordPress are ideal for such an application because of the inherent “hackability”... 

Last October 1, 2009, Six Apart , the creator of the Typepad blogging platform , launched the a  developer program that opens up TypePad’s API to developers. The program gives developers the capacity to build rich and flexible applications that... 

One of the things social media promised is the proverbial “conversation”– an authentic feedback mechanism where the publisher and reader become participants in a discussion. The way it goes is that the blogger/writer will post something... 

One of my colleagues was working on a site for a client of ours, and needed to apply styling to the previous and next post link. As in most of our sites we use Lester Chan ’s excellent wp-pagenavi plugin so I dove into that to check how I could... 

Blog Usability is something taken for granted because most bloggers don’t design the template of their own blogs. But that shouldn’t be reason for bloggers to ignore usability completely. If you’re a web designer, there are some easy...