Feb | 07 | 2007 
Colors, schemes, layouts and widgets are among the usual things a person would consider before selecting their final layout. Any blogger for that matter would surely need the attention from catchy layouts design to make that first impression last. While the ...
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Choosing Your Blog Layout
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Templates, Images, Design and Themes, Plugins, Tips, Writing, Software and Widgets, Design Aside from quality content, the overall presentation is also important such as the blog layout and theme chosen. In most cases, the default schemes offered would be the first ones shown. While various blog themes catering towards that of WordPress are being developed continuously, bloggers would still prefer free themes at first.
Colors, schemes, layouts and widgets are among the usual things a person would consider before selecting their final layout. Any blogger for that matter would surely need the attention from catchy layouts design to make that first impression last. While the ...
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Jan | 04 | 2007 
WordPress has made its mark as the common website software used in most blogs today. WordPress is not that hard to use, especially for people who have the basic html knowledge. The usual hyperlinks, image insertion, tags and formatting are present. WordPress also has a feature where the rich text editor allows users to have an easier way to compose their blog.
People would have the usual apprehensions with regards to trying out new interfaces with the web is concerned. Immediately, they would approach it as a sophisticated way of making blog entries. Most would ...
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Blogger Familiarization with WordPress
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Design and Themes, Plugins, Tips, Writing, Opinion
WordPress has made its mark as the common website software used in most blogs today. WordPress is not that hard to use, especially for people who have the basic html knowledge. The usual hyperlinks, image insertion, tags and formatting are present. WordPress also has a feature where the rich text editor allows users to have an easier way to compose their blog.
People would have the usual apprehensions with regards to trying out new interfaces with the web is concerned. Immediately, they would approach it as a sophisticated way of making blog entries. Most would ...
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Sep | 25 | 2006 
Sample of what ad rotator would look like on the admin panel.
There are several ways you could add the Google Adsense code on to your blog. Noting the limitations that Google has set for its users (so that the service will not be abused!) you have to make sure that you know where to place them in your blog's layout. For WordPress users, thankfully, there are plugins which could help in this dilemma.
Google Adsense Deluxe
If you would like to have an ad unit in some of your blog entries, you could use ...
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Adsense and plugins for your blog
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Monetization, Tips, Blogging Tools
Sample of what ad rotator would look like on the admin panel.
There are several ways you could add the Google Adsense code on to your blog. Noting the limitations that Google has set for its users (so that the service will not be abused!) you have to make sure that you know where to place them in your blog's layout. For WordPress users, thankfully, there are plugins which could help in this dilemma.
Google Adsense Deluxe
If you would like to have an ad unit in some of your blog entries, you could use ...
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Sep | 19 | 2006 
Sometimes you just can't help but notice some things on your theme's sidebar. Sometimes you do not really like the order of the information which could be found on your sidebar. Or maybe you would like to add or remove some things.
Let us look back on the White as Milk theme. There is a section for archives. If you would rather not have the Archives section at all, you could edit the sidebar template. The nice thing about WordPress is that you are focused on which part of the theme you are editing. ...
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Modifying your sidebar contents
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Templates, Design and Themes, Tips
Sometimes you just can't help but notice some things on your theme's sidebar. Sometimes you do not really like the order of the information which could be found on your sidebar. Or maybe you would like to add or remove some things.
Let us look back on the White as Milk theme. There is a section for archives. If you would rather not have the Archives section at all, you could edit the sidebar template. The nice thing about WordPress is that you are focused on which part of the theme you are editing. ...
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Sep | 17 | 2006 
If you have a WordPress blog, you could easily customize it and look like a pro ;) You have to know where to look and what to tweak. Today let's take a quick look at the style.css file of your WordPress theme.
How to locate your style.css file
From the Dashboard go click Presentation then proceed to Theme Editor. You could select the particular theme you want to tweak. Hmmm. Maybe if you're using the White As Milk Theme, you might want some color changes. If you like the way that it ...
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Checking out style.css on your WordPress blog
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorials News, Blog Tutorial, Templates, Design and Themes
If you have a WordPress blog, you could easily customize it and look like a pro ;) You have to know where to look and what to tweak. Today let's take a quick look at the style.css file of your WordPress theme.
How to locate your style.css file
From the Dashboard go click Presentation then proceed to Theme Editor. You could select the particular theme you want to tweak. Hmmm. Maybe if you're using the White As Milk Theme, you might want some color changes. If you like the way that it ...
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Sep | 11 | 2006 
If you have been thinking of using WordPress as a CMS aside from a blog, or if you just want a static front page on your blog, it's not difficult. There are actually at least two easy ways to go about this.
Method 1:
You could try using plugins for the job. One of them is the Semiologic static front page plugin. Basically you make a new page and call it "Home" and the plugin will do everything else for you. You will just see it as a front page. Convenient, right?
Pros:
It ...
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Creating your home.php quite easily on WordPress
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Templates, Plugins, Tips, Blogging ToolsIf you have been thinking of using WordPress as a CMS aside from a blog, or if you just want a static front page on your blog, it's not difficult. There are actually at least two easy ways to go about this.
Method 1:
You could try using plugins for the job. One of them is the Semiologic static front page plugin. Basically you make a new page and call it "Home" and the plugin will do everything else for you. You will just see it as a front page. Convenient, right?
Pros:
It ...
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Sep | 05 | 2006 
The beautiful thing about WordPress is that you more or less have a structured theme, sort of, so you have an idea that certain files will exist like the index.php, sidebar.php, header.php, footer.php, single.php, style.css, etc. These also correspond to the main parts of your WordPress theme so it's really not difficult to manage.
Changing your sidebar theme file
The sidebar usually has the blogroll, the search box, the categories and the information about the blogger.
In most themes, the "About" section in the file sidebar.php would have some filler text like ...
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Knowing your WordPress theme
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Design and Themes, Blogging Tools
The beautiful thing about WordPress is that you more or less have a structured theme, sort of, so you have an idea that certain files will exist like the index.php, sidebar.php, header.php, footer.php, single.php, style.css, etc. These also correspond to the main parts of your WordPress theme so it's really not difficult to manage.
Changing your sidebar theme file
The sidebar usually has the blogroll, the search box, the categories and the information about the blogger.
In most themes, the "About" section in the file sidebar.php would have some filler text like ...
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Sep | 01 | 2006 
WordPress users have the option to use widgets. These are nice to use because from the Admin panel, you could play around with the sidebar's components.
Your WordPress blog is a really interesting thing to play with. You have so many options. There are themes that you could choose from online and you could tweak them using the different WordPress template tags. Learning all about these template tags is not easy but as long as you could figure out things from the WordPres Codex, you'd be fine.
For me, to use widgets ...
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To use widgets or to not use them
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorials News, Blog Tutorial, Templates, Design and Themes, OpinionWordPress users have the option to use widgets. These are nice to use because from the Admin panel, you could play around with the sidebar's components.
Your WordPress blog is a really interesting thing to play with. You have so many options. There are themes that you could choose from online and you could tweak them using the different WordPress template tags. Learning all about these template tags is not easy but as long as you could figure out things from the WordPres Codex, you'd be fine.
For me, to use widgets ...
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Aug | 30 | 2006 
If you are using WordPress, you can have static pages. What are static pages and what can you use them for?
Static Pages
These are pages that are more or less stay as they are. They are more often than not pages that contain the information that you would like your visitors to have access to. The information could be about you and or your blog.
What could you use static pages for?
About page
Give more information about you, your blog. Writing a nice page to introduce your blog and yourself is great but wouldn't ...
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The importance of making static pages for your blog
Posted by Professor as Tips, Writing, Blogging ToolsIf you are using WordPress, you can have static pages. What are static pages and what can you use them for?
Static Pages
These are pages that are more or less stay as they are. They are more often than not pages that contain the information that you would like your visitors to have access to. The information could be about you and or your blog.
What could you use static pages for?
About page
Give more information about you, your blog. Writing a nice page to introduce your blog and yourself is great but wouldn't ...
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Aug | 22 | 2006 
Would you like your blog entries easily searched on the 'Net? No problem! It is fairly easy especially with Technorati around. Technorati happens to be 'watching' the blogosphere for the latest information on the different blogs.
Technorati tags
[tag]Technorati[/tag] is nifty because you would be able to see what others have tagged. Others can also see what you have tagged on your blog with particular keywords or 'tags.' If for example, you have written about coffee, you could put a tag on your post using the Technorati format: <a href="http://technorati.com/blogs/coffee" rel="tag directory">coffee</a>
Enter ...
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Blog tutorial: Simple tags and Technorati
Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Terminology, Linking, Tips, Promotion, Blogging Tools
Would you like your blog entries easily searched on the 'Net? No problem! It is fairly easy especially with Technorati around. Technorati happens to be 'watching' the blogosphere for the latest information on the different blogs.
Technorati tags
[tag]Technorati[/tag] is nifty because you would be able to see what others have tagged. Others can also see what you have tagged on your blog with particular keywords or 'tags.' If for example, you have written about coffee, you could put a tag on your post using the Technorati format: <a href="http://technorati.com/blogs/coffee" rel="tag directory">coffee</a>
Enter ...
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