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Outline WordPress theme from Theme Hybrid
The WordPress theme that decorates your blog can be swanky, chic, with slider pages, and flow-in thumbnail images linking to the posts. But, nothing beats the simplicity of a no-frills, straight forward layout; the one that is easy to navigate and fast to load, for the ever-impatient visitor. I’ve got just the right one for [...]
Matt Cutts on Twitter – SEO insights
I was having ambiguous views on Twitter and SEO; and how Twitter links and profiles affect a blog that it’s connected to. There are quite a few pointers on Twitter, explained by Matt Cutts – the guru of SEO. He answers the following interesting questions: 1. Links from relevant and important sites have always been [...]
The all new Alltop – search, explore and navigate better
I’ve been using Alltop right from its inception early this year, and have never come across anything better than this aggregator service. Unlike Digg or any other social networking / feed aggregator service, Alltop makes it easier for you to find new and relevant information about the topics you’re exploring. Alltop covers about 700 topics, [...]
It’s time to change your WordPress blog design..
I come across of lot of blogs, both professional and budding, in the blogosphere. The professional ones, in most cases, incorporate their own design customizations. The newer blogs, barring a few, invariably sport a rudimentary blog design – not even remotely related to the theme of the blog. For example, once I found a blog [...]
The most popular blogging platform – WordPress, Blogger, or TypePad?
As a WordPress enthusiast, I’m always a little biased towards this lovely blogging platform than any other. After drooling at the figures for Facebook, Twitter and Orkut, I wanted to do a similar comparison for WordPress.com, blogger.com and TypePad.com, and this analysis does not include the numbers for the self-hosted blog platforms. So, let’s see [...]
How to optimize images for your blog posts
Nowadays, most bloggers include a lot of images along with their posts. This is like a double-edged knife. Images inline with the posts make the story interesting and presentable. Having said that, there is a direct correlation between the loading time of the image(s) and the users staying on the page or blog post. So, [...]
Informal survey: How many were familiar with WordPress and corporate blogging?
Well, I should have written this post when I was leading the corporate blogging initiative at my company, sometime ago. This blog was seen literally as the ‘informal‘ communications medium where all those under a particular regional group can share their thoughts – be it business or entertainment or just plain rant! It was quite [...]
Portwiture – Now, a picture is worth 140 characters!
Portwiture is a cool Web 2.0 application that aims to represent your twitter status in photos. Twitter-maniacs will have some fun with this cool and interesting way of representing their twitter updates with a closely matching picture grabbed from Flickr. Now, a picture is worth 140 characters, or less! I tried mine, and this is [...]
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