If you’ve ever needed to edit your theme files, whether using Blogger, WordPress or any other system you ought to know that you should only use a simple text editor like MS Notepad or Wordpad, instead of a full word processor which can insert extra formatting and ‘break’ the file. However, these simple text editors [...]

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I like the little ‘chicklet’ style buttons used to present links within a sidebar or elsewhere, and having had need of creating one recently, I found this simple button maker at Blog Flux: It’s dead easy to use, just enter your text, alter the colours to suit and hit ‘Generate button’. If you don’t like [...]

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Had to share this one with you: hello , my name is Richard and I know you get a lot of spammy comments , I can help you with this problem . I know a lot of spammers and I will ask them not to post on your site. It will reduce the volume of [...]

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Themes  I’ve had a hankering to write my own WordPress theme for a while now, and I’m going to attempt to do one for my photoblog. There aren’t many to choose from for photoblogs (the one I use isn’t photo specific, although I think it does a good job), and those that are out there [...]

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I’m not kidding either, especially if you’re a blogger yourself. David Airey, the Graphic Designer, whose blog covers this subject and much more relevant to all bloggers, is holding a contest to celebrate the first anniversary of his site. He states that the value of the total prize pool is around $4000, but in all [...]

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I have been asked by Francesco of Mapelli.info to share with you five of my previous posts that have some merit in re-reading. I have been trawling my archives recently anyway, but hey: Bloggers should never pass up the opportunity to write about themselves! Seriously, these five posts best show what I’m aiming to do [...]

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If you’re asking “The death of what?”, then my point is already proved The Legend Of DMOZ Once upon a time in search engine optimization land, there was a directory called DMOZ. There are (of course) directories in existence today, but DMOZ was believed to be something special. It was said that if you could [...]

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