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Social Browser
The number of social networks out there are increasing every day. Trying to keep up would take a good amount of organisation. It’s the norm that us as users will sign up to the site “that’s in” and after looking about and getting use to the new car smell the initial idea can eventually wear [...]
Firefox 3 breaks world record
Last week I posted about FireFox 3 and to help set a new world record. After a couple of days the figures were confirmed and it’s official Firefox 3 breaks Mozilla browser download record. Figures show that 1.6 million downloads took place in the first five hours.
Congratulations to all the took place. Recent browser figures [...]
Help set a world record: Firefox 3
Today FireFox 3 is being released of which spreadfirefox is trying to set a new world record for “most software downloads in 24 hours”. If you want to be part of this new world record it’s simple, just download it from the official page.
Entrecard - First Month
It’s been a month already since I put entrecard on my site. I thought I would start with minimum effort and see what entrecard can give to the site without me having to put time in.
Within the month I have dropped about 350 cards which really isn’t alot considering the upper limit a day is [...]
What puts me off as a reader
I read a variety of blogs and forums every week and I would like to focus on a topic that puts me right off, spelling and grammer.
People who blog should always have some sort of quality control. This checklist would involve making sure no mistakes were found, something like the following?
Check the title has no spelling or [...]
So I joined Entrecard
Yesterday I signed up to entrecard. For anyone not familar with
Entrecard is an easy way to network with other blog owners;
The whole point of this system is that you place a widget somewhere on your blog whereby other bloggers on the network come along and “drop” you. This drop adds 1 credit to you and [...]
Whoop so I found a theme..
I started hunting through the many many wordpress themes and finally I found one that I think I can build on
The core of it I think is ideal but I would like to add a bit flare here and there so expect things to slowly change over the duration. Respect going out to WP [...]
Let the theme hunt begin
I am not saying I dislike the current theme but it’s just not what I want for the website. There are thousands of wordpress themes out there and over the next couple of days I tend to find one that will suit my needs.
What are my needs? I want a theme that’s bright, fresh and [...]
Wordpress plugins - Initial Upload
I have started to upload the 1st batch of wordpress plugins. This includes:
google-sitemap-generator
all-in-one-seopack
socialble
cforms
backupwordpress
commentluv
The plugins were fairly simple to setup however I will be re-visiting the all-in-one-seopack as this needs some thought. cforms looks very nice but will require some preperation before i activate it. I always like to make sure that I have some kind of backup strategy in case [...]
Permalink structure
In my previous post I outlined a partial roadmap of which I plan to follow into building this blog up. One small thing I over looked was permalink structure.
For anyone not familar with permalink:
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. * http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
The [...]
