Building a WordPress theme is no small task. It takes time, resources and a nearly unlimited amount of patience. I prefer to do my work all at once, but that means I will be sitting at the computer for hour after hour trying to tweak the design. And once you get something you like, […]
I have been working like crazy this summer to boost the traffic to this website. And it has been paying off. To accomplish this, I did a lot of reading at a ton of different websites about ways to get the traffic to flow. So to that end, I decided to share a few […]
As my nifty little graphic implies, I am going to show you how to use Firefox and Google to rock out with some new tunes! If you have seen a post detailing how to use Google to search for mp3 files (I first saw it here), then you are already familiar with the technique. The […]
An essential for any aspiring theme developer is a local install of WordPress. There are plenty of benefits to doing so and there are also pitfalls if you don’t. I will tell you about the pitfalls in a second, but before that, I want to tell you 5 great reasons why you should use a […]
It’s time to organize your life! Admit it. Your desk is cluttered and you can’t find time to exercise and you don’t even know where to sign a check; OK, maybe that is not all true for you, but each and every one of us need to take some time to organize our lives. Without […]
A common problem for bloggers is that you do all kinds of work to get readers to just look at your post, only to have them leave right after that. In fact, you could call it the “Stumble” effect. Just like the Stumbleupon plugin, a reader glances over your post, passes on judgment and then […]
I have had my own fare share of problems trying to increase my traffic. And my Alexa rank was one area that was an especially glaring problem. When I first found out that Alexa even existed, my rank was in the 300,000’s. Now my rank is near 170,000. It is still nothing to brag about, […]
A man can only take so many comments demanding that he enlarge his penis; who are these people and where are they getting this information from?! False information, that is… At any rate, nothing spoils my day more than comment spam. As a blogger, the most exciting part of the whole thing is seeing that […]
Another day, another contest. That’s right folks! But instead of winning some variety of an iPod, you can win some equipment that may make you a world famous… podcaster. Yes, everything does seem to revolve around the iPod (mine has a screen that just flickers at me; stupid thing). Nevertheless, this is a fantastic opportunity […]
These are 3 simple ways that will really improve your blog. And as the title suggests, they are extremely easy to implement… Well, the last one is a little more complicated, but still easy in some sense. They are subtle improvements, but believe me when I tell you that they can provide incredible benefits, including:
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Don’t get too excited now! I know the title suggests that I will be writing the ultimate guide right here, all by my lonesome, but alas, that is far from the truth. This is a meme, which was started by the Instigator Blog, and it is essentially a group writing project. I myself was tagged […]
David Airey (one of my favorite bloggers out there) tagged me to write some advice about, well… writing… But not just any writing; we are talking about blogging. Now he definitely hit the nail on the head when he said that I might be busy; in fact, being in the midst of finals has driven […]
Alright, I know what you are thinking:
This guy is going to give me advice about web design?! He’s an idiot! He only has 11 9 readers! Plus, he’s just a novice himself!
Well, most of that is very true (along with the readers stat… I just checked feedburner…). I might argue about my being stoopid for […]
This tutorial will show you how to create that great reflection effect that is so popular right now (at least at the time of this posting…). On top of that, I am going to be using Fireworks to do it! Now, I have said it before, but all I can really find are Photoshop tutorials, […]
