sideways looks often show something new…
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 17th, 2008
Blog SPAM. I hate it - you hate it - everybody hates it. Since blogs first came into existence the nefarious net dwellers targeted the comments section of blogs as a way of trying to ply their wares. I have personally visited blogs that have been virtually ruined by comments that have huge [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 17th, 2008
Getting Adsense into your posts isn’t difficult - it is just a bit time consuming. In addition to taking time for each instance of the ads you want to show, there is a concern that readers have become ‘Ad Blind’, and so showing the same format of ads may be less effective (in click [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
In theory version 2.5 of Wordpress now allows multi-media files to be uploaded to your posts natively and without the use of a plugin.
In practice you probably want more control over these presentations than you are given - and that is where An-Archos’ plugin comes in to play.
mp3, flv, mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp, [...]
Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
Favicons. Those funny little pictures that show next to the URL and the Bookmark (or favourite for you IE users!). They are a piece of cake to create (just do a google search for online favicon generator - there are loads of options), and on most webites they are dead easy to add. [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 31st, 2008
WordPress has reached version 2.5 (WordPress is the GPL OpenSource software used by bloggers), and I have dutifully applied the upgrade to this blog.
Mostly it has been painless and the improvements are many. Obviously there are quite a few niggles (can’t make omelettes without breaking eggs etc….), so I thought I would do a [...]
