Archive for the ‘Web Design & Dev’ Category

30 Resources to Create Your Own Web 2.0 Site

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Not long ago, Mashable did a very cool roundup of 15 Online Graphics Generators - with a heavy emphasis on the Web 2.0 style. This post was inspired by that list - with no duplicates, and additional resources including pre-created images/logos, tutorials, WordPress Web 2.0 themes etc. And since ...

Overview: 5 blogging clients for Windows and OS X

Monday, May 28th, 2007

The following overview lists the supported blogging platforms, features, license (4/5 are free), a summary and screenshots for 5 blogging clients. I should also mention, 3/5 work in Linux too.

WordPress: The Complete Post-Install Checklist, Redux

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Though this was originally created for another blog, I've updated it (more steps, more plugins, more theme sites etc) and posted it here. One of the great things about WordPress is how easily you can have it up and running, completely customized to your liking, in such a short period ...

5 More OS X Dashbooard Widgets for Bloggers

Friday, May 25th, 2007

As a part of a group writing project, I created a post titled Top 5 OS X Dashboard Widgets for Bloggers. The project rules were that you had to do a "top 5" list - and I had difficulty narrowing the list down to just 5. So here are the ...

How to easily install WordPress in a virtual environment

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

This post could also be called 'an introduction to JumpBox', as that's essentially what it is. JumpBox allows you to install several open source applications, such as WordPress, in a virtual environment (like Parallels, VMWare and Xen). They provide the complete package - WordPress itself, all of its required components ...

Top 5 OS X Dashboard Widgets for Bloggers

Monday, May 7th, 2007

As a part of the ProBlogger Top 5 Group Writing Project, here are my 5 favorite 'blogging related' OS X Dashboard widgets.

Review: Apogee Search

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

The following is a paid review: The following was supposed to be a paid review, but ReviewMe dot com didn't pay out as they were supposed to. When submitting the review I received the following error: Please ensure that you have provided the link text in your post EXACTLY as ...

How to create a favicon.ico for your web site

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

This brief tutorial will show you how to create a unique favicon.ico (that icon in your address bar - ex. Simplehelp's favicon.ico is ) for your own site.