Written on October 26th, 2006 at 12:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Posts from the Archives that You Might have Missed

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 6 comments

Over the next few days V and I are taking a few days break down the coast - a long weekend away of sorts - after what has been a rather full on few months.

So in my absence I’ve decided to run a little series highlighting some posts from my archives that newer readers to […]

Written on October 26th, 2006 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

Ten Grammar Errors that Could be Haunting Your Blog

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 28 comments

Do you ever get the feeling that a blog post is written directly for you?

While I’m not sure this one is written with me in mind - it could well be!

Top Ten Grammar Errors that Haunt Web Pages

it’s = it is
Web site (or page) vs. web site/page vs. Website/website (page)
Periods and commas: do they go […]

Written on October 25th, 2006 at 04:10 pm by Darren Rowse

moo offers 10 Free Skype Calling Cards

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moo printing have done it again. Last time they offered 10 free minicards in conjunction with Flickr - this time they’re doing it with Skype.

Get in quick to be part of their 10,000 free 10 pack give away. I just ordered mine (it says ‘Call Me’) on the front and have my details on the […]

Written on October 25th, 2006 at 08:10 am by Darren Rowse

Chitika ShopCloud$

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Chitika have announced a new product today - ShopCloud$
You can see an example of it below - but basically it is a tag cloud that highlights ‘hot products’ as well as a search box with an AJAX option that suggests products as people add letters into the search field.
When readers click on one of the […]

Written on October 25th, 2006 at 08:10 am by Darren Rowse

Speedlinking 25 October 2006

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A List Apart has a good tutorial on creating Print friendly versions of your pages
Loren has decided to use Google’s new Custom Search to power the Blog Search Engine - submit your blogs to it today.
Brian writes a great post on using Bullet Points in your posts
Aviva Directory has 21 Tips for a Successful […]

Written on October 25th, 2006 at 03:10 am by Darren Rowse

WordPress MU 1.0 Launches

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WordPress MU 1.0 has been launched today.

This is a ‘Multi User’ blog platform (it’s what is behind WordPress.com) and is designed to run many blogs on the one install rather than just one - something I know many bloggers will be interested in.

It does sound like it is more complicated to set up than a […]

Written on October 25th, 2006 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

Introduction to WordPress Resources

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I’m sure I’ve seen some good resources on this previously - but has anyone written (or seen anyone else write) a good free and easy to comprehend Introduction to Using WordPress that talks beginners through the basics of things like:

Posting
Uploading Photos
Creating Categories
Making Drafts
Changing Timestamps
Moderating Comments
etc etc etc

I’m particularly thinking about the very basic stuff that […]

Written on October 24th, 2006 at 03:10 pm by Darren Rowse

RSS News Reader Reviews

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I missed this earlier in the month but CNET put together a review of some of the more popular RSS readers at Make your own headlines.

They looked at Bloglines (rated 7.7), Rojo (rated 6.7), Google Reader (no rating given), FeedDemon 2 (rated 8.0) and Newsagator Inbox 2.6 (rated 7.5).

What RSS/News Reader/s do you use?

found via […]

Written on October 24th, 2006 at 03:10 pm by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger Community Search Engine - Submit Your Sites

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So Google’s Custom Search Engine service is now live and I thought I’d give it a go to see how it works and have a bit of fun.
I’ve created a ProBlogger Search Engine which you as ProBlogger readers are welcome to contribute sites to.
There’s a link on that page where you can volunteer to […]