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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Ever wonder how you can get examples of XHTML and CSS code to display in your blog posts, and on web pages so you can show some coding examples for your readers? This visual tutorial teaches you a couple of ways to do it. You'll learn the long way, and a couple of shortcuts. WordPress BlogMasters will also get a few tips for ways to autom

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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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How important are comments to the success of your blog? How can you keep track of all of the comments you make around the internet? We explore the answers to both of those questions with Matt Colebourne, CEO of coComment.com, a meta-Social aggregation service that collects all of your comment threads in one place (and more). Would it be va

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Have you been struggling with speed issues for your CMS website? Do you have a problem with WordPress running too slow? Well... you're not alone. This article points you at a comprehensive approach to trouble-shooting your slow website issues. You'll learn about ways to work with your LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) structure to che

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Free Web Editors. Cool. But how do you choose the best one for your job? That's what we'll look at here as I compare two interesting editors -- one (Amaya) the official W3C tool that creates clean XHTML code, and another (JEdit) that features hundreds of plugins. Which will you choose? Well maybe you already have a favorite -- but thes

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Has Content Marketing surpassed Search Engine Marketing? Several new media marketing gurus think it has. But what do they mean by "Content Marketing," exactly, and why do they think it is more important than Google SEO & SEM strategies? Where should spend your marketing budget? The answer can be found in the "Five C's of Social Marketi

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Do you love WordPress plugins? Now, take a preview of the top 10 favorite plugins, with screenshots of key features, by an experienced WordPress BlogMaster. Need SEO plugins? You'll find a couple of great ones. Master of plugins? Bet you'll find a couple here you haven't tried yet. This a great list with everything from time savers (

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What do you get when you cross a Firefox extension with a WordPress plugin? Well... in this case, with the "Oneclick" WordPress plugin, you save a whole lot of time when you need to install themes and plugins. How much time? Well -- this plugin lives up to its name. Find a plugin you like and just make one click to install it. Same wit

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Forget about JPGs, GIFs, and PNGs -- that is soooo '90's. Get ready for the next Graphic Format... Scaleable (and Programmable) Vector Graphics -- SVGs. That's right... you can program SVGs. VG’s feature set includes nested transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks, filter effects, template objects, extensibility and programming of t

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How can you use Photoshop to create all the artwork you need for a website? Now you can learn the inside techniques to use Photoshop for designing website and web graphics following this eight lesson tutorial series by a College Instructor, with classroom examples and exercises. Animations? You bet. Mock up a website? Sure... you'll lea

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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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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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