Meg from Dipping Into The Blogpond has handed me this friendship ball:
It reads:
A ball is a circle, no beginning, no end
It keeps us together like our circle of friends.
But the treasure inside for you to see
is the treasure of friendship you’ve granted to me.
Today I pass the friendship ball to you.
While it might sound a […]
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 […]
I received this email from the ReviewMe crew yesterday, a couple of weeks after submitting this blog to their program:
Hello Andrew Boyd,
We are sorry but the website you have suggested http://onblogging.com.au has been declined at this time. The main reasons a website is declined are:
- The website is a suspected fake.
- The website does not […]
The following was originally published on Polyblogging: Tips for Managing Multiple Blogs.
In Polyblogging: Basic principles I talked about sharing the link love with yourself.
Don’t be embarrassed, everybody does it. Despite what your mother told you, it will not make you blind
What do I mean by sharing the link love with yourself?
While some may feel […]
There are a variety of ways that blogs are used in education - both formally and informally. Then there is a mixture of the two - OpenCourseWare is a project that MIT started to share courseware for open education - and now OpenCourseWare is being presented via blogs.
Wikipedia describes OpenCourseWare as:
MIT OpenCourseWare (MIT OCW) […]
Blogging, like life, requires balance.
It is generally accepted that one pillar post is better than a hundred annoying one-liners.
I’m wondering if it is possible or even desirable to go beyond the pillar post and aim for absolute perfection. I know that there are people who hesitate to post something until they are perfectly happy with […]
Following is an unpaid advertisement for a two-day course that is being delivered by two people I admire a great deal - they are both experts in their field, and good people.
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS expert, Russ Weakley.
Over two full days you will build detailed websites layouts […]
….but parts of it are weird and unexpected. There is a demo site at http://wp.chrisjohnston.org
The front end
The front end hasn’t changed much. The default theme is prettier, and this is not a bad thing.
But in the Dashboard
Please see the demo/beta at http://wp.chrisjohnston.org/wp-admin/ - username is admin, password demo.
There are some new features, sure. […]
From the “what the?!” file…
This is part 3 of a 3 part series on WordPress theme editing. Please feel free to read parts 1 and 2 if you want
“The making of On Blogging Australia” is probably a bit melodramatic - all I really did when I moved to the new theme recently was:
download the Mimbo theme,
unzipped/uploaded […]
