A strange new bug in WordPress.com caused What Do I Do With My New WordPress.com Blog (and others) to release three days early. The date on the post was for July 29, and yet it posted without my knowledge on July 26. Unfortunately, it released in the middle of the night and I woke up […]
Robin’s Blog article on “Proofreading Javascript”, is a great article on how to not only proofread javascript, but all HTML, CSS, PHP, and other programming codes and languages. A lot of tips she offers also covers how to proofread your content. 1. Proofread, proofread, proofread. Then proofread more. 2. JavaScript is case sensitive, MyVar is […]
I update this post from year to year with new research and tips. See below for more current updates, and also read When is the Best Time and Day to Publish a Blog Post published in 2008 with more information you need to know on how to decide when is the best time to publish. […]
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You would think that as experts in nature photography, travel, and web design, our main site, Taking Your Camera on the Road, would have certain articles that would attract a high level of consistent traffic, right? You would think that exciting and innovative articles like CSS Unleashed – CSS Experiments with Design Elements, which took […]
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Akismet, the official comment spam fighter for WordPress.com blogs and WordPress users has been working overtime to fight off an onslaught of comment spam bots. Akismet has a new Akismet Stats page with a chart to show you how hard it is working to combat comment spam. The chart measures the number of comment spam […]
One of the most important elements in your blog’s web design is the post title. It reaches out and grabs people’s attention. It informs them of what the post is about, hopefully. On a multi-post page view, the title should stand out so the reader’s eye can flow down the page, noting each titled article […]
February 6, 2006 – 7:32 am
Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Workgroup writes about “Five Great Ways to Harness Collective Intelligence”, and makes a good point about the concept of collective intelligence. One of the things Ellyssa discusses is some practical examples of harnessing collective intelligence, one of the linchpin techniques of successful Web 2.0 software. The article describes this as when […]
January 30, 2006 – 10:44 pm
I’m a big fan of Robin’s Blog aka Take My Advice – I’m Not Using It!. Based upon a series of classes at the Regional Occupational Program’s Web Page Design Program in Pleasant Hill, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, Robin Wood offers students excellent information on web design, web development, and web technologies, […]
January 23, 2006 – 6:41 am
Blogging is great fun. It’s exciting. You start out with great ideas, full of motivation and inspiration. After a while, though, you run out of steam. The muse isn’t so amused any more and you start hunting for content, things to write about. There are two aspects of finding content for your blog. First, it […]
January 5, 2006 – 8:33 am
Apples to Oranges has info on making bar graphs and charts with CSS, a technique I experimented with ages ago in my popular series of CSS Experiments in the experiments with creating Backgrounds, Bar Charts, and Graphs with CSS techniques. The technique isn’t very difficult. The background of a container is set to repeat for […]
December 30, 2005 – 2:17 pm
It’s that time of year again when the search engines report on the top searched keywords and names for the year. For 2005, I was surprised to find Oh, by the way, Lycos reports that this has been the Pam Anderson Decade with Pamela Anderson leading the top 50 search results with antics in her […]
November 25, 2005 – 8:08 am
If you could see the web, what would it look like? I was recently asked, “What does the web look like?” This inspired me to find out what it might look like if we could see the web and Internet, all the interconnected parts and pieces that create the spider web for which the “web” […]
November 21, 2005 – 8:46 am
When it comes to mixing up a rainbow of colors for your WordPress blog or website, one of my personal favorites is Color Schemer. You can pick a color and it will show colors related and in the color theme for that color, darken or lighten it, or mix up some other features to find […]
November 5, 2005 – 1:08 pm
I teach nature photography, and one of my favorite subjects is teaching patterns in nature. When Mandelbrot came up with fractal theory which introducted the ability to actually measure clouds, mountains, and rugged coast lines, it was very exciting for me. Now I had a name for these patterns. Well, the math and sciences have […]
September 16, 2005 – 5:45 pm
Site Directory Feeds Full Site Feed WordPress News Category Feed WordPress Tips Category Feed Blog Babble Category Feed Web Wise Category Feed Comments Only TechCrunch: Review of Online, Web-based Feed Readers Site Search Tag List The following are the most commonly used keywords and phrases to search this site. Click on the tag to generate […]
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