If there is one thing I strongly believe is tapping the power of the Internet to learn. It is with always with great happiness that everything I have learnt in the past ten years (since I got online) has been only through tutorial sites.
Here are a list of some of that where you can quickly [...]
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Daniel asked the question What is a Blog? This is my answer.
In late 2003, I decided to try my hand at writing what was known as a blog. As I hesitantly installed WordPress on my first paid hosting account.
I remember telling people excitedly that I have started blogging only to be stared at as if [...]
If you have missed reading the Techtites Daily this week, below is a list of everything I covered this week.
Apr 23 - Money Making Monday: Get paid to surf
Apr 24 - Test drive the new Google design
Apr 24 - Tool Tuesday: Opimize your CSS with CleanCSS
Apr 26 - Tip Thursday: Shae your Feedburner feed [...]
Except for the fact that upgrading this blog gave me problems, I have had absolutely no problems running WordPress 2.1, codenamed Ella.I promised a review of WordPress 2.1 a while back, but have been busy testing out the various features it has to offer.
The WordPress Blog Release Post listed a few of the new features, [...]
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Just two days back, Duncan wrote an interesting article on how becoming a professional blogger is a lot more difficult today that it was a few years back.
I totally agree with his point of view. There are quite a few people making money through blogging, with some only through blogging.
I, for one, still a long [...]
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Two weeks back I took you through the different types of hosting.
Over the next few articles I’ll cover Control Panels, Hosting Basics, Choosing your host and try to explain the various concepts that surround this industry.
To recap the earlier article, hosting can be divided according to price, by domain or size.
Considering size, hosting [...]
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Whether you’re starting to blog or if you are beginning your own website, one thing that you will need is a host. Hosting can be either free or paid. Hosting comes in different forms or services from thousands of hosts all over. Over the next few Tutorial Thursday articles we will look at various aspects [...]
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WordPress 2.1 released about ten days back. Many hesitated to upgrade and others still haven’t.
I did upgrade two days back and ran into problems. I’m reluctant to upgrade my personal blog even now.
I had originally intended to review WordPress 2.1 in this weeks column, but since I haven’t had much time to explore it well, [...]
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FeedBurner provides an excellent feed service that lets you track how many users are subscribed to your feed. You also get a shorter name especially if you are working with Category feeds.
Users can still bypass your FeedBurner feed and continue to subscribe to your original blog feed.
While this is not a problem, your stats may [...]
Am not going to write anything special about working with WordPress this week, as I’m really tied down by things right now.
However, let me take this opportunity to point you to an article I wrote a while back on my personal blog, on a topic that frustrates a lot of us, viz. SPAM!
Titled A Comprehensive [...]
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