Following on the trail of A is for Akismet, B is for Blogging Platform, and C is for Content, this post is about blog design - layout, colour, and styles. It not only draws on 18 months of blogging but 12 years of user centered design.
But first… the bottom line
Let’s be a little lateral and […]
Following on the trail of A is for Akismet and B is for Blogging Platform, here are my thoughts on what I’ve learned over the last 12 months about writing blog Content.
What it all comes down to is this - no matter how cool your theme is, or how great your advertising strategy is, or […]
I’ve written a fair bit lately about WordPress 2.5. Whatever the issues are, I think it is fair to say that some people just don’t like it.
A lot of these same people are staying with WordPress 2.3.3 while they wait for version 2.6 to come out.
There is a cost to staying with WordPress 2.3.3 or […]
Following on from A is for Akismet, I thought I would look at blogging platforms.
I wrote a rough guide to different blogging platforms in Get a real blog: Finding the right blogging platform - things have changed a little since November 2007.
This article contains some of the changes to existing platforms and also covers some […]
The blogiversary for Facibus Reviews has come and gone, and I am reflecting on lessons learned after a year of fairly intense blogging.
I’m starting a new series today to pass on some of the things I’ve noticed from the wonderful world of blogging: an A-Z of blog tips.
A is for Akismet.
While I’ve not been a […]
…I wasn’t making it up at all.
Like a good web citizen, I reported the issues I was having with WordPress 2.5 (as discussed in WordPress 2.5: Its here, its queer, it wants another beer!) to the WordPress forums in the thread Visual Editor in 2.5.
This is the reply I got from Otto42, one of the […]
…or something like that.
Those of you who follow my blog know that I am not a huge fan of the admin interface changes in WordPress 2.5. In WordPress 2.5: Perhaps I was wrong I even got a little abusive. So today, when I learned that it was out, I upgraded a couple of my blogs […]
There has been a bit of discussion lately on the Aussie Bloggers Forum about categories and tags: when to use categories as opposed to tags, and how to make each of them useful.
Categorisation: a basic human need
People are categorisation engines - we categorise experiences so that we can learn from them and deal with them. […]
…and it does totally suck.
The WordPress blog has announced that the “Lite” version that I spoke about in WordPress 2.5 Alpha: It doesn’t totally suck is going to be adopted. Sadly, they seem proud of it.
Here’s what I had to say about it on the Aussie Bloggers Forum:
“We’ve cut the number of navigation options by […]
I’ve started creating a list of useful blog resources - things that I have found helpful.
As I mention on the directory page, the list has a long way to go - I am going back through old posts and adding new things as I come across them - it is a big job, because there […]
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