By Randa Clay on August 12, 2007
I apologize for any trouble anyone might have had today trying to get to something in the archives. My permalinks have suddenly stopped working, and I have no idea why.
I have had them set up as follows: /archives/%postname%/ almost since I began the blog in January, and they have worked fine. I was barely even [...]
Posted in Blogging
By Randa Clay on August 10, 2007
Need some mindless entertainment that might leave you with crossed eyes? Try finding the face in the baked beans and the face in the coffee beans.
Curious to know if your content is being copied? Check out Copyscape (via the useful post at Design Adaptations about protecting your work)
Take the Problogger Test at Daily [...]
Posted in Blogging
By Randa Clay on August 9, 2007
Meet the newest author at Wisdump! Haven’t heard of Wisdump? It’s former blog of Paul Scrivens, of 9Rules fame. It was sold to Splashpress Media, who owns such sites as Performancing and Blog Herald, and I’ve been asked to contribute over there on a weekly basis.
My first article is one on some really basic blog [...]
Posted in Blogging, Design
By Randa Clay on August 6, 2007
I recently posted about the four reasons your blog needs a logo, and the need to visually differentiate yourself from the millions of other blogs that are out there. Some of you probably thought, “that’s great, but I’m not a designer and I don’t know how to customize my blog anyway.” In the [...]
Posted in Blogging
By Randa Clay on August 5, 2007
The more WordPress themes that are created, the more difficult it can be to find high quality, well designed (inside and out) themes. Recently plaintxt.org ran a design competition challenging theme designers to create skins for their Sandbox theme. All the submissions are in, and the winners have yet to be announced. [...]
Posted in Wordpress Themes
By Randa Clay on August 2, 2007
“If no one hates you, you’re doing something wrong”
This is a quote from a recent post on Copyblogger. Do you think that’s true? While I agree that you can’t water down your content so much that no one will ever take issue with it, stating firm and well thought out opinions does not have [...]
Posted in Blogging, Deep thoughts