If you’re a blogger and use Firefox, you must download the CoLT extension from Born Geek. The extension adds three items to your contextual menu when you right-click on a link. You can choose to copy the link text, link location or even best the link text and location all wrapped up in a handy anchor tag! This has become my most used extension and has saved me much time!
Digital Media Minute is 3 years old today. It’s hard to believe I’ve been doing this since June 7th 2003, but what began as way of keeping up-to-date with trends and techniques in the world of web design and development has now become somewhat of a passion!
In three years, DMM has accumulated 2138 posts! Some of the most popular are:
This blog on average has 4178 average unique page views and it’s RSS feed is consumed by over 900 readers per day. Thank-you to everyone who is a regular visitor here. It’s my pleasure to share my passion with you!
Thomas Silkjær has created a WordPress plugin that will createLanding Pages for your Blog. I never really understood landing pages before I read his article, but if you follow his example you should immediately understand them, and at the same time, see the value in using them. I am already begining to think about how I will use this in my client websites!
Seth Godin offers his list of 56 ways to get traffic for your blog. Some good advice is burried in this list, like using del.icio.us and digg.com to draw attention to your posts. Other valuable tips include posting often, encouraging people to subscribe to your RSS and writing about Google!
If you’ve been thinking about a personal blog, or starting a blog for your company or clients, you should check out the free and open-source WordPress blogging tool. WordPress is a complete content management system that is very powerful and easy to use. In fact, many hosting providers offer WordPress as a standard feature. If you’re looking for a good place to start with WordPress, WebMonkey has a very nice article that will help you Get Your Feet Wet with WordPress. It will introduce you to the basics of using this great blogging tool.
WordPress Multiuser is a specialized version of the popular PHP-based blogging software that could be used for creating community-based blogs.
Using WordPress Multi-user edition you will be able to have people be able to sign up for a new blog and have them securely manage their templates and settings without affecting any other users. Only one blog per user is allowed, but you can have unlimited users, and you can have multiple users on a single blog.
Pete Cashmore has an article titled – Here Come the Edge Aggregators – that describes four new services that are aggregating RSS feeds in new ways. Services like Edgio and iNod scan RSS feeds looking for posts that are tagged with certian tags. In the case of Edgio the tag being aggregated is “listing” with the result of the aggregation being classified ads!
Dion Hinchcliffe has an excellent Web 2.0 blog that I have added to my daily reading list. His coverage of new web 2.0 services, trends and techniques are a worthy read for any web developer.
So you figured you’d wait a while to upgrade your Wordpress Blog from version 1.x to 2.0. A month has now passed since the v2.0 release and a new list of 10 Things You Should Know about WordPress 2.0 has just been released. A good read if you’re planning to do an upgrade.
If you made a New Year’s resolution to redesign your blog, you may want to start with Rachel Cunliffe’s list of current Blog Design Trends.
