Wordpress

Tag4Writer

September 5, 2006

Windows Live Writer, the desktop based weblog client eased the task of writing/editing blogs. After I started using Live Writer, I had to rarely open the administration console of WordPress to edit the posts contents. However to tag the posts, I still had to login to the administration console. Live Writer has an SDK using [...]

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WordPress – Plugins/Themes

August 31, 2006

WordPress, the publishing software which runs this blog as well, is powerful because of 2 things You can add additional functionality in the form of plugins. You can change the look and feel of the blog just by a click and the changes are applied instantly. Plugins BlogJoint has compiled a list of Top WordPress [...]

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Bad Behavior

August 28, 2006

Spam in Blogs is one of the major problem faced by most of the blog publishers. It shouldn’t be confused with splogs (Spam Blogs) which is often used to increase the PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from visitors and use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed. Comments [...]

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Tracking Outbound Links

August 23, 2006

I was checking out on a new analytics service called CrazyEgg. The application is supposed to help you get a clear picture of where your visitor are clicking including the Ads. Accordingly the user can change/customize the layout of the site. It does display the clicked links pretty nicely. You can view the results in [...]

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Images for your theme

August 21, 2006

Check this link http://www.intersmash.com/300images/ It has got images for Arrows Posts Comments Mails Bullets Print Carts and Bags If you are thinking of customizing your wordpress theme, do consider using some of these images.

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Typetester

August 7, 2006

Typetester is an online application which you can use to compare the different fonts. According to the site, its primary role is to make a web designer’s life easier. I have always been thinking of changing 2 aspects of my web page . One is the combination of colors for some elements in the page [...]

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Color Schemer

August 2, 2006

While designing the web site, many a times you are stuck with the problem of choosing appropriate colors. I still haven’t been able to find the right combination of colors for menus, links etc. I am using the default style sheet of K2 theme. (Which by the way is pretty decent). There are few tweaks [...]

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coComment

July 23, 2006

If you are tracking a lot of blogs and additionally also leave comments in the blog, one problem you always face is tracking these comments. You never know if anybody has replied to your comment unless you bookmark the site and open it again at regular intervals. But again how many website posts can you [...]

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Introducing Tag Cloud

July 20, 2006

It’s been almost 3 months now, since I started this blog and as of now including this post, there are about 65 posts. As the posts keep increasing, having an “Archives” section becomes a necessity. A nice user interface is a must for the Archives section to be more effective. A good interface will help [...]

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Blog sites BLOCKED in India !!

July 19, 2006

Yesterday I noticed that some of the RSS feeds were not working in my feed reader (Outlook 2007). I thought it was some problem with the client and I never took the pain of checking further. Today I realized that many ISP’s in India have blocked blog sites and this was the reason for the [...]

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