- WordPress users, have you ever wished you could remove the “/category” in category URLs? Take a look at the Top Level Categories plugin.
- Useful WordPress Plugins You Might Not Know About
- The latest threat to net network neutrality: A Canadian ISP has been testing a method of injecting content into web pages as they load on clients’ computers. Shown in the article is a screenshot of Google with a huge ad promoting “Rogers Yahoo Hi-Speed Internet” atop the page. I think all of us who run websites can safely say we don’t want this.
- How do you explain what a blog is to someone? This video does a great job: Blogs in Plain English, by CommonCraft. It does a great job of explaining blogs. Send this to everyone you know who doesn’t “get” blogs.
- The Top 10 Dumbest Web Site Decisions
- Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions – Some interesting points on 3-column layouts and newspaperesque designs.
- 2007: More Web Design Trends & Cliches
- Prioritize Your Blog Into 5 Distinct Groups
- ProBlogger presents Discover Hundreds of Post Ideas for Your Blog with Mind Mapping, an interesting tutorial on how to expand upon your old posts.
- 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging
- Browser Wars Episode II is picking up speed. Opera is trying to force IE into W3C compliance by filing an antitrust complaint with the European Commission.
- After six years of waiting, phpBB 3.0 has finally “gone gold”. Hmm… Reminds me of a certain operating system…
- How to Develop the Habit of Writing Posts in Advance
- Things we would like to see CRASH on the internet – “there are some things we would happily see go down…”
BlogBuzz December 15, 2007
Dec 15, 2007 by Matt | Posted in BlogBuzz One CommentDowntime Pages: Don’t Disappoint Your Users
Nov 29You’re working on some changes to your website, so you put-up a message saying that the site will be down for a few hours. Your users won’t like it, but it’s necessary sometimes. If you have to block access to your site while you…
BlogBuzz November 10, 2007
Nov 10Pro Blog Design: Smashed
Nov 9Pro Blog Design has been added to Smashing Magazine‘s blogroll. Michael’s subscriber count was upwards from 450 last night, but it’s lowered back to a little above normal today.
The Ultimate WordPress Sideblog
Nov 6A sideblog, or asides as they’re sometimes called, is a great addition to a blog. It allows you to post short mini-posts into a spot in your sidebar. Have you just hit the Digg.com main page? Give your readers a heads up. Did you…
BlogBuzz October 27, 2007
Oct 27Going Beyond the Blog – How to Extend Your Blog. Once you have a few hundred RSS subscribers, and some decent comment counts, how can you add to the “community” aspect of your blog? Go beyond the blog. How Old Are ProBlogger Readers? Since…
7 Cool RSS Buttons
Oct 25As cool as that orange RSS icon looks, it won’t necessarily fit-in with your blog’s design. It’s orange! Sure, you could just use a different color, but why not get a little creative? You don’t have to use the same style as everyone else.…
BlogBuzz October 12, 2007
Oct 12The Coolest Web Designs On The Planet
Oct 8After soliciting submissions, haunting design galleries, and looking through my bookmarks, I have put together this collection of cool web designs. I may not have all of the coolest web designs on the plane Earth, but I’ve collected all the coolest ones on my…