Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Using the absolutely fantastic WordPress plugin WPtouch, your site will not only look great for visitors using an iPhone or iPod Touch, but it will be significantly easier to navigate. Keep reading for a review and screenshots.
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev, iPod/iPhone | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
If you noticed a change in your Alexa rank today, here's why. Simple Help went from 77k (+/-) to 49.5k. If you have a site and pay attention to your Alexa rank, did your rankings change?
Posted in Blogging | 7 Comments »
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Contest details - to enter, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. Here's what your comment must include in order to be eligible to win:
A tutorial suggestion - is there a PC/software topic/problem that you struggled to figure out? Or wished you had a ...
Posted in Blogging | 23 Comments »
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Jamie of Blog2Life has finished the Simple Help redesign (99%). Based on reader feedback a few things have been changed already, and there are one or two more to go. But I couldn't be more happy with the results, and couldn't recommend Jamie enough as a designer/developer.
The entire redesign ...
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
I've been waiting for them to roll out the "version 2" features. Well, they finally have - so now I can drop the service. Here's why -
Posted in Blogging | 11 Comments »
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Using DeliCount, a free program created by the How-To Geek, you can find out how many times your site - and all of the pages on it, has been bookmarked on the popular social bookmarking service del.icio.us.
Posted in Blogging, Windows | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 15th, 2007
In no particular order, here are my favorite posts from Blog Action Day 2007.
The Simple Secret to Making a Greener World - best sentence/thought: "Relearning skills pushed aside by thoughtless consumerism"
Read/Write Web's Top 35 Environmental Blogs
Lifehacker: Easy Ways to Live Greener - I might give the ...
Posted in Blogging | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
With all the recent talk over buying and selling of text link ads causing a negative effect on your Google PageRank, I've decided to disable the text-link-ads.com WordPress Plugin (ie. stop selling text-link-ads). That's about $100/mo that I'm kissing goodbye just to avoid the possibility that Google might punish me. ...
Posted in Blogging | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
Why MWSnap doesn't show up on every "top Windows freeware" list, I'll never know. Version 3 has been around since 2002 (!?). Admittedly, it hasn't been updated since 2002 either - it still works perfectly well in XP (I haven't tested it in Vista yet). With the resulting screenshots you ...
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev, Windows | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
I have to admit, I almost want this one (BlogRush) to work. It's like the little train that could. It came out of nowhere, had huge publicity immediately, and then huge problems, immediately. Today it rolled out the promised "Flavors" feature. So now I have a slightly more appealing widget. ...
Posted in Blogging | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 24th, 2007
I was recently approached by someone who wanted to buy $550 worth of advertising on Simplehelp, and ended out turning them down. After seeking the advice of a number of other bloggers, here's why I said no.
Posted in Blogging | 7 Comments »
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Last Saturday I mentioned that I signed up for BlogRush, and that I'd be reporting back with the results today. Well the stats (Dashboard) section of BlogRush kicked in this week, so now I know how many folks I've referred, how many "credits" I've earned, and how many visits BlogRush ...
Posted in Blogging | 2 Comments »
Friday, September 21st, 2007
After being appalled at what I saw when I viewed Simple Help in my Smartphone, I decided it was time to figure out a way to make this site more appealing to folks using mobile browsers. It didn't take long for me to find Alex King's WordPress Mobile Edition plugin. ...
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev, Windows Mobile | 2 Comments »
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Instead of reviewing or introducing you to BlogRush (for that you can check out ProBlogger), I'm going to try something a little different. I've signed up, added the code to my sidebar (though admittedly not giving it 'ideal' placement) and I'm going to leave it up for one week. Then ...
Posted in Blogging | 6 Comments »
Friday, September 14th, 2007
From their site:
"The Google Analytics widget is an Adobe AIR application that runs on your desktop and displays basic stats for your Google Analytics account."
Posted in Blogging, Web Design & Dev | 3 Comments »
