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2 unique WordPress themes for casual bloggers
Conventionally, bloggers and blog themes have adopted the left side for content and the right side for widgets, snippets, badges and navigation. Well, I stumbled upon two unique themes that were a little outside the blogging conventions, yet aesthetic in design and functionality – suitable for casual blogging. BlueBubble Key features I like: Sport your [...]
10 reasons why small businesses must have a blog, instead of a static website
It is difficult to start a business – to conceive an idea, to convince a venture capitalist to fund your business, to find the right talent, and yes, the list is endless. This applies to small, medium as well as enterprise businesses. So, what next after you start your small business? Of course, by today’s [...]
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 [...]
Is there a workaround for the ‘writer’s block’?
Not really! All bloggers, novelists and tech journalists suffer from writer’s block. There is no real workaround to this annoying problem than to let it pass. Just like the ‘common cold’, writer’s block has no medicine. If you search the internet, there are thousands of articles posted on ‘how to’ get over writer’s block – [...]
Are you ever satisfied with your blog design?
With the rapid developments in open source technologies since the late 90s, content management systems (CMS) became so very popular that it opened new avenues to facilitate user generated content on the World Wide Web. As more and more people started adopting a particular CMS like WordPress, Blogspot, TypePad, etc, design and presentability became one [...]
‘How to’ articles for blogs – How useful are they?
What is the first thing you do after setting up a blog? Well, if you ask me, I usually spend a considerable amount of time (about 4 hours) implementing the theme/layout that best suits the content of the blog. I’m a Wordpress fan, and so spend another hour searching for the best plugins and sidebar widgets that add to the much needed cosmetic and functional aspect of the blog.
When blogs were started a few years ago, they were mostly viewed as an electronic version of one’s personal diary – the only difference being..
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