Hey, guess what? The best WordPress gallery plug-in out there is not even a plugin! For years, managing collections of images in a WordPress blog post required a plug-in. NextGen was one of the most popular plug-ins around but there was no shortage of alternatives. I’m not a big fan of using Plugins. Sure, they [...]
This is a topic I’ve been meaning to write about for a while now – bloggers that seem to blog about nothing else but blogging. So, yes, you have a few big profitable blogs out there that do just that. Then you have a gazillion small blogs, often started as the first blog by that [...]
How many sites, or blogs, do you have? I have long since past the 100 mark. And I keep on, publishing more sites (and blogs). Some webmasters/bloggers will tell you it’s best to focus on a single blog. Dave Doolin even published a post a couple of days ago about how to decommission blogs that [...]
Approximately six weeks ago I went ahead and bought Thesis. I posted about my first impressions here. Today, I finally went ahead and installed Thesis on this blog as well, so seems like a good time for adding my “second” impressions. First, since I’m already a Shareasale affiliate, I went ahead and signed up as [...]
Let me say outright that I can see how you might want to protect your computer from pop-ups that can never be closed or any other form of pop-up hell. That said, should you really be blocking all kinds of ads? even regular banners and text links that are no more visually obtrusive than any [...]
Keeping a blog fresh with regular posts can be a challenge. At some point or another, we all feel we have simply run out of stuff to write about. Some people call this “Writer’s Block” and there are as many ways to overcome this horrible condition as there are writers. Today, I’d like to share [...]
I started doing “this” back in 1997. “This” means creating websites, promoting them and monetizing on the traffic (as opposed to creating websites for other people’s business need). It’s a pretty common business model for most of us. The Age of Webmasters Back then, we were called webmasters. As a webmaster, you were expected to [...]