Did I say that Technorati wasn’t winning any awards for customer service? I was wrong. Or, should I say, I was premature. I still think if you’re going to change something up on your users, you should inform them up front instead of leaving them to wonder and become frustrated. However, [...]
David Airey had the wonderful idea to start a “face behind the blog” meme, and I think it’s my favorite meme of all time. When I started using MyBlogLog, I enjoyed seeing visitors faces for the first time, and I always look for a picture on blogs that I frequent so I can put [...]
I was really looking forward to breaking into the top 10,000 in the Technorati ranking, and today I see in the site redesign they removed Rank entirely, in favor of the new Authority score. What’s really annoying though, is that in the write up about the redesign, there is no mention of Rank [...]
I did some tweaking to my site over the weekend, and in the process, I almost shot myself in the foot, and learned a couple of things about managing how pages appear in a site’s main navigation that I thought you might be interested in. I wanted to add some new menu items and [...]
WordPress 2.2 is here! It includes widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. The new version also protects you from activating a plugin or editing a file that will break your blog. Now… when am I going to find the time to upgrade…?
SEO is a world of small detailed tweaks that add up to big differences in traffic, and although I am not a very detail oriented person, it’s something I’ve been trying to pay more attention to. Here are 5 tweaks that I have recently become aware of and am implementing that can make [...]
As I was developing my Round and Round theme, I looked around for some round RSS icons to put with the feed link, and didn’t find any, so I made some. I thought there might be others who would be interested, so I thought I would do several colors [...]
(Are you tired of hearing about this theme yet?) Well, it’s been released, and I’m looking forward to seeing what happens! I ended up changing it to display best on 1024×768 and put instructions in the Stylesheet for an easy switch to 800×600 in case there were those who would need that based on [...]
Phil Nash is a genius. His trick for making backgrounds transparent while still allowing the other items stacked on top in the div to keep their opacity put the icing on the cake in my first theme for WordPress. Here’s the code
I originally had it in a class, and that didn’t work in [...]
I’m almost to the point of releasing my first theme for WordPress called “Round and Round”. My goal for this first one, was just to design a clean, uncluttered theme that has a different look than others I’ve seen out there. I’m more of a design person than a code person, so I [...]
