This is one of the new things guys at Google have implemented on their homepage.
Go to Google.com and click on “i’m feeling lucky” button without entering anything in the search box. See what happens. It shows the seconds left in this year ! Is this Google telling us the new year will be lucky for everyone ? so be it. Thanks Google ! Merry Christmas ! !
Have you ever wondered why do few blogs get all the success while most of them fail? Some of these big guys have thousands of RSS subscribers while most of the others don’t even get into thousands. The answer to these questions lie in a very basic principle. The law of reciprocity and the give to get principle. Failure to follow these principles will almost ensure that you won’t get any long term success. [click to continue…]
For bloggers who hold full time jobs it can be a daunting task to manage their blog while working. This, I think is one of the reasons a blog might fail. iPhone to the rescue! Here is a list of 10 most useful iPhone apps with which you can manage your blog. This is a list of apps I have used on my iPhone to work on my blog. [click to continue…]
Have you ever wondered what is all that RSS, XML, Syndication is ? Well, you are not different from anyone of us a few days, months or years ago. I will explain what is RSS. This is a newbie’s guide to RSS and how it is built and what are its advantages.
One of the myths surrounding the field of photography is that some people just have a knack to shoot superb photos. But in reality, those excellent photos you see are shot with a very good understanding of few principles. One such principle is the 2/3 rule or the two thirds rule. Its a compositional principle.
Today, we are going to go over the basics of creating a thesis based custom theme for your website. But, before we do that, note that this is the third post of my How to create a custom theme for your blog series. Make sure that you have read the first and second posts of this series, otherwise, you will not have a clue of what i am talking about.
There are three basic topics that you will be learning today. First, we’ll take a look at the Thesis theme structure and then we’ll see what are hooks. Finally we’ll dive into the core of thesis customization – Custom CSS and programming. [click to continue…]
Why do you need a local development environment ? Be it coding work or just theme development work, we need to make sure that the live blog doesn’t get affected by your development work. One of the widely accepted idea is to setup a local environment mirroring the same settings as your web server. In this way, we are completely detached from our live blogs and are free to perform any modifications we want. [click to continue…]
Over the next few days i will be writing articles that will show you how to create a completely unique theme for your Wordpress blog. Creating a unique blog theme is not difficult and once you have a unique theme it has many advantages. It gives your blog its own personality, communicates that you are more committed to your niche, committed to provide original content. I will be using the Thesis theme as a base of our unique theme. So, to start this process off, i will be making a few assumptions.
Chris Pearson’s Thesis theme for wordpress is one of the most beautiful wordpress themes out there. For a person considering whether to buy thesis or not, there will be lot of questions about the theme itself. How is thesis theme different than the other themes ? Is the price tag of 87$ worth it ? [click to continue…]
Social bookmarking today has gained a lot of popularity and it would be more than helpful to add a social bookmarking plugin to your website. With a lot of plugins available for wordpress which achieve the same goal, the process of selecting a correct one for your website can be a difficult task. Lets have a look at what are the most popular plugins available for wordpress.
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