Technical

Fighting The WordPress Dragons

What follows is a quick tale into the technical details of WordPress that I’d rather not think about, but was forced to… Over on PCMech, I have been having a cyclical and perplexing issue with server load. The end result was that PCMech disappeared from the Internet for a few minutes at a time, several [...]

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Headway Theme: Answering The Prayers of Bloggers Who Don’t Program

Headway is a new premium WordPress theme that seems poised to take on Thesis head-on. Thesis has been on the top of the mountain for some time now and many people swear by it. Does Headway have a chance at mounting a real challenge? The answer is YES. Headway is a powerful WordPress theme which [...]

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Making Videos: What Happens After Filming?

I did a post about how to maximize your video quality. I also did a video showing the exact equipment I use to make videos. But, what happens after that? What happens once I get the footage over to my computer?

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Maximizing Your Online Video Quality [How To]

I routinely talk about how important doing videos is to your blog’s traffic and making sales. However, a common confusion is exactly how to make the video look as professional as possible.

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Creating a Custom Blog Homepage [WordPress]

WordPress is extremely customizable and that’s one of the beauties of it. When you are able to master customizing blog themes for WordPress, you can turn the platform into almost anything.

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Where Should You Host Your Blog’s Videos?

I have talked many times about how it can be a great idea for you to produce your own videos. It is really easy to do. However, once you have a nice, shiny video, how do you go about actually putting it on your blog? Let’s look at your options.

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Using Gravatars On Your Blog – Why And How

Blogs are simply awesome for building a community. There is innate two-way communication to you posting something and others offering their two cents by way of comments. That sense of community, though, is enhanced when you can SEE them.

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How To Configure OIO Publisher

I have highly recommended OIO Publisher to my readers in the past. It is a powerful ad management platform for WordPress. It is so powerful, in fact, that some of my readers have expressed confusion on how to use it. Well, I’m here to help!

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Developing a Blog Backup Strategy – How?

Most bloggers put a lot of time and effort into their blogs. Now, wouldn’t it suck if something happened to it and you couldn’t recover? Oh yes, it would. The answer to this blogger’s doomsday scenario is a solid backup strategy.

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Moving Your Feedburner Feeds to Google

Feedburner was bought by Google some time ago, yet nothing changed. Well, they’re forcing the issue now and they are now officially requiring all Feedburner users to migrate their feeds over to Google. The good thing is that they’ve made the process pretty automatic and painless. The bad thing (and I have yet to see [...]

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