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Posted in Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
This has to be one of the easiest ways to make your blog a little bit easier to use and prettier on the eyes! All this plugin does is make any image link become a pop up on the screen.
Sounds pretty unimpressive right?
Wrong - so very wrong.
This plugin does what seems like a very [...]
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 Wordpress Widget Reviews on Apr 15th, 2008
The blogclout widget that allows users to add a button to their sidebar, or a link under each blog post is used a lot by some and not at all by others.
Essentially, the premise is that asking for donations has become lame and bloggers need to find different ways to encourage readers to dip into [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Mar 17th, 2008
The Internet gets referred to as the ‘World Wide Web’ (hence www), but this has long been a misunderstanding of what the Internet actually is. The Internet is a collection of PCs and servers all interlinked and using a common language foundation to allow the sharing of data across these PCs and servers. The [...]
