Blogs are vanishing from WordPress. Abracadabra. Gone. That's right -- you can't even find a blog at the Ford Autoshows website... but it's entirely built with WordPress. Why is that? Well, you see, a "post" is just a "container for information." It can be a news article, a story, a feature article for an ezine, or a page on a C

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People often get into blogging thinking one day they will wake up and have a blog generating thousands of dollars a month without much effort. The truth is, that rarely happens. The number I hear most often for new blogs created each day is 175,000. For a comparison, that is the entire population of my town (Fargo, ND) starting

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There’s a reason why WordPress is so popular (well over 1 million installations, according to WordPress.org), and aside from the fact that it’s user-friendly, it is also set up to help you optimize for the search engines easily and effectively. Adam McFarland gives you some great tips in this article -- a real taste for why WordPress has beco

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A review, with a few hidden tricks, of the new Leopard feature called Spaces. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard provides a host of new features and tweaks to the Apple OS. One of the newest additions is Spaces, a modern virtual desktop manager. For a developer

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Memory management is a delicate yet required skill of many who program. Those who program in C know the fine detail of managing each and every byte while those who have broadened out to Objective-C have enjoyed a slightly more relaxed thought process. Java developers on the other hand have lived in a virtual la la land of near memory manageme

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Looking at my inbox today, I received one of Yaro Starak’s newsletters. In it, he shared to us a really useful video that he said we MUST watch. So I did. Honestly, it was one of the best video (actually it’s a series of videos) that I have ever seen. What is it about? Well, it’s about your site’s design and the way you are losing revenue and

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Obviously you want your keywords in your subdomain name. That helps with SEO and brings you higher in search results. But sometimes it is hard for a search engine to split your keywords if they are written all together. Although google says they can

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In our regular overview of all things WordPress we examine six new themes (thumbnails and screenshots give you a quick review), the latest upgrade, WordPress resource sites and examine WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS). You'll learn a fast way to install themes and plugins, where to find WordPress jobs, plus some favorite WordP

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Microsoft and PayPal are loose about it. Yahoo is strict. Amazon doesn’t do it at all. What am I talking about? ’m talking about how these sites use and conform to web standards (namely, the latest doc type declarations — DTD — as specified by the W3C.org). What are Web Standards, and Why are they Important? They just have to do with Web 2

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Ever wish you could look at a web page and understand its underlying structure -- its CSS format, for example? You can. How about trying a quick change to your website(s), say a new background color, so you can immediately how it looks, without altering it for other visitors? You can do that too. All that and more is possible when you lea

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This great article discusses how our inner dialog is crucial as to how our life turns out. It explains how perception creates our reality, and that even though this self talk is very subtle, we can learn to recognize it and appropriately change it so that we talk to ourselves in a positive light, instead of feeding our mind wi

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Have you ever had that nagging feeling that you needed to do something but couldn't? What about actually spending a load of time getting something done only to loose it all? Among others these are signs that you need better software. Developing that software is often a formidable task and requires more time than the benefit that you alone wo

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In software development patterns and anti-patterns outline best practice solutions to idioms which occur over and over again. New to Mac OS X Leopard is a memory management style known as Garbage Collection. In this post we take a look at a few development best practices as well as a few pitfalls to avoid with this new Leopard development fea

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This is another article from our SEO Matters series, where we’ll consider setting Goals using Google Analytics and how that can really take your game up a notch. Note carefully that setting goals not only helps you increase “conversions” (get visitors to take a certain action at your site), but also helps you learn and adjust y

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WordPress 2.5 is coming soon, and this Round-up gives you a sneak preview of both the dashboard, and the new Widget Management area, plus an overview of handy new plugins, and a review of some interesting and unique themes. Written by BlogMaster, Scott Frangos (Managing Editor for WebHelperMagazine.com), the article also gives

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This is a 4 part blog series that goes over the 17 principles that can ensure that you succeed at whatever it is that you do. Very well written and glosses over each principle to show exactly how they are crucial in their own way, but also how we can use them to our advantage. Basically, the more principles you can master off

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