Jun | 07 | 2007

MovableType 4 Beta Released and Goes Open Source!

Posted by Ia as Blogging News, Blogging Tools, Software Features

SixApart has just announced the release of MovableType 4 Beta. Many have known MT as the definitive blogging software that has forever changed the way people blog. Beyond WordPress Those who are well-versed with the history of blogging will know that the boom did not start with WordPress. The first wave came with MovableType. Few blog software were as easy to customize, and this attracted a large following.

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Jun | 03 | 2007

reCAPTCHA: More than the Usual Anti-Spam Measure

Posted by Ia as Blogging Tools, Spam It started with junk mail in real life, creeped into our virtual mailboxes, and has now invaded our blogs as comments and trackbacks. Blog spam is usually characterized by generic advertisements for silly stuff including but not limited to porn, warez, lotteries, pills, insurance, and real estate---often with a suspicious-looking URL. You start getting spammed when spambots find your blog. Unfortunately, that's the price you have to pay for being "popular." The good news is, many developers have thought of ways to combat comment spam. Perhaps the most famous right now is Akismet, which has the following Spam ...

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May | 31 | 2007

Four Steps To Get More Traffic To Your Website Using MyBlogLog

Posted by Brix as Blogging Tools, Plugins, Promotion, Software and Widgets, Tips You are probably familiar with MyBlogLog. This is a social networking site which allows you sign up and add a widget to blog so you can see your visitorâ€™s avatars. I have used it on my blogs to see visitors coming to my web pages. Here's how it works... When you sign up in MyBLogLog, a small cookie is saved in your personal computer. A cookie is a text file containing information and is accesible by browsers. When you go to various sites that have mybloglog widget, the browser accessing the cookie and your picture will show up on the ...

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May | 19 | 2007

Increase interactivity in your blog

Posted by Ariel as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Software and Widgets Some blog owners love to interact with their visitors. Getting feedback from them is a way of finding out the presence of their visitors (and not just lurking while surfing through the pages), or whether what they put in their blogs are interesting enough. Let's face it, people love to voice out their opinions (which is one of the reasons why blogs were created) and react to each other's thoughts. By putting up blogging tools in your own blog (or blogs), you can allow your visitors to interact with you, and comment on your posts.

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May | 13 | 2007

Make Yourself Found! (Or, Promote Your Site Web 2.0-Style)

Posted by Ia as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Linking, Marketing and Search Optimization, Promotion, SEO Features, Tips "Nor does anyone after lighting a lamp put it under a bushel basket, but on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory..." Blogging is much like light---it's meant to be seen and used by others. (I'm not condemning bloggers who prefer to remain alone and anonymous, though.) Put another way, you're a nobody unless your name Googles well, says the Wall Street Journal. To do this, you must make yourself found.

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Apr | 13 | 2007

Why Images Can Spice Up Blog Entries

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Blogging Tools, Design, Images, Templates, Writing Photographer

Although it is not a required practice, images can help boost the message of blog entries, assuming of course that they cover the whole essence of the blog entry being made. Relevance of images have made the entire entry manageable and understandable and such practice is something that has been done by most probloggers active on the web today. There are millions of free images available on the web. But the best practice is to take own picture that express the point of the message being sent across. This is better than hyperlinks since some people are ...

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Apr | 12 | 2007

Blog Safely and Generally

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Blogging News, Blogging Tools, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Opinion, Spam, Templates, Tips Blog Safety First

While blogging offers people the freedom to express what they feel, it would be best to keep them as broad as possible. Reason behind this is to avoid any libel problems that may come their way from making gestures focused on one area. People or groups who may be cited at one point or another may not be pleased and may call it an attack against their overall being, a reason for them to take such articles as moral damages towards a person or groups overall character. Blogging has been something that is on the ...

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Mar | 17 | 2007

Blogging About the Buzz Word Today

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Blog Tutorials News, Blogging Tools, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Opinion, Promotion, Submissions, Terminology, Tips, Writing The subject matter on what to blog that is relevant to the entire world to date is perhaps the best point to consider every time a person would encounter writer’s block from daily blogging. buzz words

The itinerary is quite simple. A person will never runs out of ideas on what to blog about if he looks at the right places and uses his resourcefulness as well. There is much topics the world needs to know about and it is just a matter of knowing how to expand on them for ...

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Dec | 07 | 2006

Coloring with Tools!

Posted by Professor as Blogging Tools, Design

Colors are the first things you'd notice about a site, and it also works the same way for your blog. Bright colors can catch a reader's attention quickly, but they also tend to be hard for reading. Dark colors are great for text, but they are also dull and uninteresting. Setting up a muted color scheme can be tedious; going through all the different shades of one color like blue to get them to look good and not too monotonous. Here are two color generators using completely different interfaces for those who need help in ...

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Dec | 03 | 2006

Your files, your blog and FTP

Posted by Professor as Blogging Tools, Terminology

Most of of blogging newbies start out with hosted blogging services like Blogger, LiveJournal and these days, WordPress.com. Those blogging services make it easy for newbies to get into writing, posting pictures and other kinds of files rather easily. However, when you start having your own webspace and your own installation of a blogging software like WordPress, things could get a little bit more difficult in terms of maintaining your blog. At the same time, it could give you more leverage in terms of making your blog personal. What is FTP? It is file transfer ...

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