This post has been long in coming, I’ve been held up moving this blog over to Liquidweb the past few days, needless to say, moving hosts is an elaborate process (sometimes harrowing!) if you have a moderately big website or a fairly large portfolio of domains.
To lighten myself up after the ordeal, I read up on Caroline’s post on “If Making Money Online Was a 9-5 Job” which did a good job to cheer me up. Humour always helps in getting you out of the dumps.
John leverages his 10+ years of experience online to make some very interesting observations on a few successful strategies to make money online and discusses their possible scope today, in case you would want to take some inspiration from them.
If there’s anything that I detract from the wonderful software that Wordpress is, its the fact that sometimes when I write a post, it looks like its “ready-to-go” in the Editor, but once its published, the layout looks completely skewed and not at all the way I’d meant it to look. This is particularly so when you try to publish a step-by-step tutorial such as mine on how to upgrade your theme to be compatible with Wordpress 2.3. Believe it or not, the toughest part in writing the tutorial was to get the alignment right! (I do believe it still needs some work though). Therefore, it was little wonder that I’ve decided to take Monika’s advice and give the Windows Live Writer a try. I’ll write a post about it once I’ve tried it myself.
MyBlogLog is growing in popularity each day with more and more blogs using the widget to display their readers, including myself – Ryan has made us all a very Web 2.0 looking badge that you could use in case you don’t want to display your readers’ faces.
If you’ve ever wanted to have a go at editing files of your Wordpress installation, but were too intimidated to do so for the fear of breaking your blog, Sumesh shows you how to install Wordpress on your computer so you can easily make changes and at the same time, be sure that you won’t ruin your actual blog.
When you’ve edited the files to your liking and made them look exactly like how you’ve wanted them, why don’t you show them off to others by writing great content, without making any spelling errors and submitting them to the Top 11 Digg-like Sites For Bloggers, Designers, And Web Developers?
When the visitors do come, which I’m sure they will, here are 69 Tools to Monitor, Measure, and Track Your Website from Steven.
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8 comments ↓
Thanks for the link!
Thanks for the mention Karthik
Thanks for linking me. It wasn’t quite my idea but I’m glad you like the badge. Also, for the record, I have seen blogs with both the badge and faces
Hi Karthik,
Thank you for your cyber hug.
I bet you will love the Live Writer as much as I do. Another bonus is the fact that blogging is now so much quicker and easier, because I don’t have to spend my time anymore trying to format by hand.
I shall look forward to seeing your thoughts on it.
Cheers
Monika
Thanks for the link, and am still going through other links.
One thing – be careful about WLW – it renders invalid code which is very dirty – like no closing tag for li, br etc. I’d recommend that you look for another writer (I’ll soon post a review of the one I am using) until WLW fixes the issue.
@Steven and John
You’re welcome – they were articles well worth linking to!
@Ryan
The badge does look pretty good – and yes, point taken about the badge and the reader widget both being present in some blogs, personally I feel its a bit excessive – but that’s just me
@Monika
“cyber hug” – now that’s an interesting coin, did you coin it yourself? I’ve not heard of it before – if its been doing the rounds for sometime, pardon my ignorance, its not very popular under a certain rock I was living under
And yes, I’ll certainly give it a try and let you know how it came along.
@Sumesh
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll keep an eye out for bugs. Just for the record though, ‘br’ doesn’t have a closing tag, unless you mean ‘/>’. ‘br’ is simply used as >br /< in XHTML, with the angle brackets reversed of course. Or did you mean something else totally different?
@All
Thanks for visiting and reading!
Thanks for linking Karthik! BTW nice way of doing a ’speed-linking’ post.
You’re welcome Mohsin – like I always say, it was an article worth linking to
I like to connect things up when I make the link love post, rather than simply stacking them up as a list and honestly, a fair amount of time and effort goes into each of my link love post to make it interesting enough for my other readers too.
Ultimately, they are not links that I slap up just for the sake of doing a link love post and keeping my “active” readers happy – they are meant to be a resource that really helps you learn something new. I am lucky in a way to have readers who make such excellent posts too!
And I’m glad you appreciate it, thanks for visiting!
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