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WordPress Theme Editing Part 2: The Actual Coding

By AndrewBoyd • Feb 11th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

This is part 2 of a guide to editing/customising themes on self-hosted WordPress blogs. Part 1 looked at how you can survive the process.
Do I really want to become a programmer?
Maybe you do, maybe you don’t I can’t guarantee that you will be making a living out of coding based on my sketchy introduction […]



Entrecard (and other ads) above the fold…

By AndrewBoyd • Feb 2nd, 2008 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs, Recent posts

Jayne tagged me for the Chain Drop 8 above the fold meme for Entrecarders.

Rules-

Create a post on your blog that links back to this post.
Tag 8 bloggers not mentioned in this post who display their Entrecard widget above the fold and have great content.
Leave a comment on this post and share the link to the […]



A farewell to the old theme…

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 31st, 2008 • Category: About, Recent posts

…and welcome to the new!
The old K2 theme served On Blogging Australia faithfully for the last five months.

The time has come to try something different - welcome to the new look
I’ll write about how I did this the easy way as soon as I can. In the mean while, please enjoy, and […]



Aussie Bloggers, Aussie Blogs

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 26th, 2008 • Category: Aussie Blogger, Recent posts

I’d like to say a big shout out to all my fellow members of the Aussie Bloggers Forum on this Australia Day.

Everyone is in the blogroll of the Aussie Bloggers blog now (well, as current as it can be for now).
I would like to thank you, one and all, for contributing to what is emerging […]



Does Entrecard work for me?

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 13th, 2008 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs, Recent posts

Suzie posted a link to the Aussie Blogger’s Forum today - apparently, John Cow is dropping out of Entrecard.
John writes:
Here’s the thing: The whole purpose behind EC is to get noticed in the blogosphere because your 125×125 ad gets displayed on other blogs that have signed up with EC. Obviously if your card is featured […]



To Monetise Or Not - That Is My Question

By Lightening • Jan 12th, 2008 • Category: Blogging tips, Recent posts

Note from Andrew: following is a guest post from Lightening of Lightening Online on the tricky subject of making money online from blogging. She asks a lot of questions to help her make the decision on how best to monetise her blog. Because she (like I) is Australian, she uses the locally preferred spelling “monetisation” […]



Aussie Bloggers Forum: The Icon

By AndrewBoyd • Jan 9th, 2008 • Category: Aussie Blogger, Recent posts

Here’s the Aussie Bloggers Forum icon that you can add to your own blogs:

If you would like to use this icon in your blog sidebar, please feel free to use the following code:
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<a href=”http://www.aussiebloggers.com.au/forum”><img src=”http://onblogging.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/aussiebloggersforum.png” alt= “Aussie Bloggers Forum” height=”151″ width=”195″ /></a>
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Thanks to Snos and Meg Lani for the icon.
UPDATE: that icon sizing […]



Aussie Bloggers Forum is born!

By AndrewBoyd • Dec 30th, 2007 • Category: Promoting Australian Blogs, Recent posts

The secret can now be revealed: Snoskred, Meg and I (and a team of very helpful moderators) have been working on the Aussie Bloggers Forum over the last couple of weeks. It has been an exciting time, with a lot of community-in-action networking (and a lot of hard work, including a sterling effort by Snoskred’s […]