Validating HTML Killed a Plugin

Posted on: Thursday, March 18th, 2010 in: Code, Software

How validating HTML can find unnecessary plugins for your website or blog. An example using the TweetMeme button.

Creating Wordpress Themes Made Easy

Posted on: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 in: Usability & Design

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been working with WordPress for many, many years, and have greatly admired people who can create wonderful WordPress themes. The most I can do is log into the WordPress admin area and scroll through the different available themes, download one and click “activate”. Badda Bing. Job done. But [...]

TweetMeme WordPress Plugin Updated

Posted on: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 in: Usability & Design

The TweetMeme plugin for WordPress has just updated. Review of what they did to it.

WordPress PollDaddy Polls and Ratings

Posted on: Friday, January 22nd, 2010 in: Software

PollDaddy’s rating system for WordPress blog posts. Works great!

WordPress Security

Posted on: Friday, January 22nd, 2010 in: Software

Two great plugins to keep your WordPress blog secure, Firewall and SABRE.

WordPress New Post Button Needs to Go

Posted on: Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 in: Usability & Design

I don’t like that silly button WordPress added to the Dashboard on WordPress.

Tags Show What Visitors Like

Posted on: Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 in: Analytics, BWI, Usability & Design

How Post Tags can indicate what your readers would like to see more of.

How Not to Brag About Zero Comments

Posted on: Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 in: BWI, Code

How to use the WordPress comment_popup_link() tag, and the comment_number() tag to encourage reader comments.

Today’s Read

Posted on: Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 in: Usability & Design

Every morning I like to read blogs and forums. Here are the top three I found of value today.

Hacking a WordPress Plugin, Version 100

Posted on: Monday, August 3rd, 2009 in: Code

Keeping your WordPress plugins safe from upgrades after customizing them.

Today’s Read

Posted on: Monday, July 20th, 2009 in: Software, Usability & Design

Today’s Read includes links to the YARRP plugin for WordPress, a tip on improving usability for a user session, and tools that can help you build a site easy.

Almost Anything Can Be Done With WordPress, Even a Job Board

Posted on: Friday, July 17th, 2009 in: Sites Reviewed, Software

Over the past year or so I have kept in close contact with another webmaster from overseas. His name is Temi, and he is the one responsible for the Boss Cart Shopping Cart Contest I am having. He is also responsible for Job Boards, a classified type site made with WordPress

Google Not Ready for Firefox 3.5?

Posted on: Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 in: Usability & Design

After installing Firefox 3.5 I found several Google functions and website content not functioning, AT ALL!

Blog Directory for WordPress Fans

Posted on: Thursday, March 19th, 2009 in: Sites Reviewed

Review of Cyber Blog, a blog directory catering to a WordPress Audience.

WordPress Doesn’t Have to Be a Blog

Posted on: Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 in: Sites Reviewed

If you are new to building websites there are a ton of services and software packages out their to help you build a site or blog,Joomla and WordPress are two of my favorites. Their both free, and both are fairly easy to use. Joomla is commonly used for sites, and WordPress is commonly used for blogs.

Web Templates

Posted on: Friday, January 30th, 2009 in: Sites Reviewed

Instant website coming up. Building a website doesn’t have to be a major production. Can you say website templates? If you are looking to start a new site, whether it be made from scratch, Wordpress, Joomla, or whatever, there are ton of templates out there to get your site up and running in no time. Where are their a ton of them? The Template Kingdom.

WordPress 2.7 Beta 2

Posted on: Monday, November 10th, 2008 in: Sites Reviewed

I’m loving WordPress 2.7 Beta 2. They fixed the menu so I can read it, but there is still one more thing that’s bugging me, the comments.

Can’t Read Menu in WordPress Beta 2.7

Posted on: Monday, November 3rd, 2008 in: Sites Reviewed, Usability & Design

Here is a quick post for you. Wordpress recently released their Beta of WP 2.7. I downloaded, am not currently running it, and can say I am not happy. Overall it seems pretty good, but what is driving me nuts is that left sidebar menu they have. It’s really hard to read.

Nofollow in Comments

Posted on: Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 in: BWI

I have seen many discussions on whether or not you should use nofollow for a comment author’s URL. I honestly didn’t know which way to go so I decided to go right down the line with a neat little fix.

Printer Friendly

Posted on: Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 in: Software, Usability & Design

Is your site printer friendly? Anyone can go to this site, hit the print button, and print out the content. The problem is, and this is the case for most sites, you print all the content on the page, including menus. I was visiting this fishing site, Ontario Fishing, and they reminded me about something I need to do to this site. I need to make it more printer friendly.