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• Social Media, Tutorials And How To's

  Twitter Glossary: Twitter Lingo Explained For The Utterly Confused

  04.06.09 | Permalink | 47 Comments

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  What are all those confusing little words you come across in every other tweet? Read on for answers.
  Twitter is becoming a culture in itself. Spawning new words, and creating new concepts around its lingo.
  Many of us get confused when we first join Twitter and are bombarded with the [...]

• Blogging Tips, Tutorials And How To's, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips

  Adding Post Thumbnails in WordPress 2.5

  03.26.08 | Permalink | 110 Comments

  WordPress magazine style themes have been all the rage lately, and everyone seems to want some aspect of their WordPress blog to have a magazine-y look and feel.
  So if you have been around blogosphere recently, you must have seen those cool image thumbnails with short excerpts displayed on many blog home pages.
  Today I went around [...]

• Blogging Tips, Tutorials And How To's, WordPress Tips

  How To Set Up a Sideblog The Smart Way

  11.09.07 | Permalink | 25 Comments

  Did you notice the sideblog in the sidebar where I have been featuring my favorite links? Would you like to know how I did it?

  Running a mini blog (also called asides) alongside the main blog is not really a new idea, people have been doing it since the dawn of blogging. But the credit for making me give serious thought to sideblogging goes to Michael at Pro Blog Design. check out his detailed post on the pros and cons of using a sideblog

• Blogging Tips, Building Readership, Link Building

  5 Surefire Ways To Build Tons Of Backlinks For Your Blog

  10.09.07 | Permalink | 24 Comments

  So you wanna build a lots of links for your blog huh?

  That’s easy. You only need to look at what work for others and steal their techniques. Obviously, some methods only work for a select few, because of the way they do it, and because of the fact that you can’t do it. I am talking about the so-called A-list bloggers who have done all the hard work of building strong reputation for their blogs, and now even if they do so much as belch, it prompts many people to link to them for doing such valiant feat.

  Of course it takes time, hard work, dedication, and a bit of social media luck to reach that level, but here we are talking about quick and dirty ways to build loads of links to your blog, aimed at getting you better search engine rankings, improved Technorati rank, and most importantly creating brand awareness for your blog.

• Web Design

  Stop! Before You Make Any Of These 5 Website Usability Mistakes

  10.02.07 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I was reading Lisa’s post on site usability mistakes that bug her, and it reminded me to finish my own second list of annoyances on the web pages that bug me a lot. My first list can be found here.

  I’ll start off by spotting two usability mistakes on Lisa’s blog (That’s how shameless I am!).

• Blogging Tips, Productivity

  Create a Blogging Plan by Breaking Down Objectives into Task List

  09.29.07 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  Do you know where you’re going with your blog? Do you have a plan or are you just making it up as you go? If you want your blog to be successful and make money, you must have a plan. If you don’t have any idea where you’re going, how will you get there? How will you know when you’ve arrived?

• Resources, WordPress Tips, Wordpress Plugins

  5 Odd And Unique Uses Of WordPress

  09.20.07 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  A customized WordPress installation can handle every kind of task it is given very comfortably. Thanks to its unmatched flexibility and an ever increasing repository of Plugins, we are able to set up WordPress to do things that it isn’t supposed to do.

  You may disagree with me and say that every use of WordPress other than as a blog is its misuse, but trust me, WordPress is more robust, intuitive, and flexible than many of the free services and CMS out there. We trust WordPress because we know it so well, and it has never let us down.

  The other day I was searching for a way to integrate Tumblr with WordPress, and came across some unique uses of WordPress. People have devised ingenious ways to turn WordPress into full-fledged CMS and whatnot. Here are some of the best ones.

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