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I have entered into WordPress theme competition of Lunarpages with my Kollane WordPress theme. I would be very pleased if you could spare one minute to go blog.lunarpages.com and vote for my theme that is named as Kollane by Mehmet Ozekinci
Why not write an extra blog post today?
Why not sign up for an affiliate program?
Why not comment on a blog in your niche today?
Why not read blogs outside your niche today?
Why not drop 300 Entrecards today?
Why not submit a guest post to a popular blog?
This list is not going to end here. Jason Boom offers 100 Why Not Activities for Bloggers to inspire and keep your blogging fuse up.
If you haven’t meet with Noupe yet, I suggest you to do it today. They are going on with their killer article series and they have compiled a great list of WordPress plugins which is entitled 35 WordPress Plugins for Effective Blogging Experience.
Free of charge RSS Feed Icons: Right place to check for alternative RSS icons
How To: Finding a WordPress Job: If you consider yourself as a WP coder, you can get yourself hired. Kyle has listed some online databases to follow and get freelance works.
A while back, Dan wrote an interesting article which is entitled 30 improvements I’d like to see in WordPress 2.6. The first place on the list was about “customizable color schemes - possibly with COLOURlovers integration on admin area”. The idea was great, lets hope WordPress developers will consider this feature. As of now, Dan has blogged about a plugin which has ability to change your site’s admin colors with built-in COLOURlovers functionality.
If you are not handy with CSS and would like to try some different color schemes, you should give a try to COLOURlover WordPress Plugin.
A while back, web designer meant to be only one person who makes the design, programming and submit the site to search engines. Nowadays, web design has became to be a huge field where there are different opportunities for art-designers, programmers, SEM and SEO companies…
I recently came across an article over wpcandy that is entitled as SEO for WordPress. I had some question marks when I read the following state on that article.
Some background information: Google gives less weightage to links that appear site-wide, and also links which are separated from the bulk of content. However, the links still pass on invaluable link juice to other pages.
It was containing an interesting question for me. Do site wide links hurt?
I [...]
Success of the previous competition that was hosted by Weblog tools collection brought us another plugin competition this year. WordPress users were very happy of the results of last year’s competition, since there were many extremely useful and fun plugins to use in the end.
Here are the details of competition
Running time for competition = 2 months starting the 10th of May till the 10th of July.
True Wordpress plugins only. No manual modifications can be required of users.
You cannot submit plugins that have been released already. New code only please.
Plugins can only be submitted via email. We will make that email address public later on in the competition.
Plugins cannot have opt-out links back to the authors’ pages (from the main blog [...]
Many people these days are concerned on how to make money online and looking for ways to create revenue from having a website. As you will agree that the websites are like real estates. The key is, to find out correct ways how to use them. There are many services that offer some extra income to website owner for blog posts or affiliate ads. Here in this entry, I will like to bring up another service that allows you to create revenue from your website by displaying affiliate banners and text links.
You might say that you just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 but WordPress team announced that 2.5.1 is available for download. An immediate update is recommended, if your blog has open registration.
New release has a security fix which is not public yet and over 70 bug fixes. If you don’t want to upgrade your blog, you can download corrected copies of wp-includes/pluggable.php, wp-admin/includes/media.php, and wp-admin/media.php and replace theme with the old ones.
Here are the fixes for new release
Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
Better performance for those who have many categories
Media Uploader fixes
An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
Widget Administration fixes
Various usability improvements
Layout fixes for IE
A while back I purchased two more (travel and WordPress related) domains that I was thinking to use on my different projects. I don’t know why, but I guess I missed the fact of being a part-time blogger while buying those domains. Honestly, the time I spend here for gabfire is not long enough. I am not sure if I will have enough time to run 2 blogs at the same time.
Daniel has listed 10 things to consider before starting a new blog. He has placed the time as a first matter. To be frank, I could not agree more with the things he mentioned in his article.
Needless to speak about the challenges and benefits of multi-author blogs. Wpcandy [...]
Every browser has different margin and padding values that are set as default. Thats why we prefer to reset all values before building up a site. Most of people add,
* {margin:0; padding:0; border:0}
to the top of their CSS file to reset everything. But do you really thing that it is enough to reset everything? Use following code block on the top of your CSS file and see what else you’ve missed to reset.
a:link, a, a.visited { text-decoration:none; }
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,form, fieldset,input,textarea,blockquote,th,td,p { margin:0; padding:0; }
h1 a, h2 a, h3 a, h4 a, h5 a, h6 a, h1 a:hover, h2 a:hover, h3 a:hover, h4 a:hover, h5 a:hover, h6 a:hover { text-decoration:none; }
table { border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0; }
fieldset,img { [...]
