http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ Weblogtoolscollection News Forum: Other Blogging News en Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:14:10 +0000 http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/of-course-express-yourself-with-jingling-domains#post-3549 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:24:27 +0000 maktig 3549@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>And the link, of course ;)</p> <p>Web-site: <a href="http://Of-Cour.se/">Of-Cour.se!</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/of-course-express-yourself-with-jingling-domains#post-3548 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:23:20 +0000 maktig 3548@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>iXpress.me is a new blogging initiative that allows its users to run state-of-the-art blogs with tiny difference: their URLs read like complete sentences or slogans. </p> <p>The first jingling domain launched by iXpress.me is "Of-Cour.se!" where one can open blogs "Your Name, of Course", "Your Place, of Course" or "Your Passion, of Course" with corresponding web-addresses Your-Name.Of-Cour.se, Your-Place.Of-Cour.se and Your-Passion.Of-Cour.se.</p> <p>The research shows that Internet browsers are more inclined to click on such jingling links, first just for curiosity, of course. Then more people return to the sites as these addresses stick in their minds.</p> <p>The team at iXpress.me believes that people do blog because they want to make an impact on the environment and peers. Putting a noticeable web address in the email footers puts iXpress.me bloggers one head above the rest of the blogosphere.</p> <p>On top of this, blogs hosted by iXpress.me run on servers that use exclusively 100% renewable energy with 0% of CO2 emissions.</p> <p>There are dozens of other jingles on the way, rolling out in the earlier 2009. </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/install-wordpress-on-wemp-windows-nginx-mysql-and-php#post-3425 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:01:25 +0000 HendryLee 3425@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Recently, I've written a tutorial on how to install WP under Nginx, soon lighttpd and other options as well, including virtual machines.</p> <p>The benefit is, nginx only takes 2MB of computer memory, which is much more friendly for desktop environment. </p> <p><a href="http://blogbuildingu.com/wordpress/install-wordpress-wemp" rel="nofollow">http://blogbuildingu.com/wordpress/install-wordpress-wemp</a></p> <p>I am sure this would be helpful to Weblogtoolscollection.com's readers.</p> <p>-Hendry </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/wpthemesnews-all-the-buzz-about-free-and-premium-wordpress-themes#post-3307 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:43:02 +0000 wpthemesnews 3307@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>This is it folks ! After a couple of weeks of work, WPThemesNews has officially been launched !</p> <p>What is WPThemesNews ?</p> <p>WPThemesNews is a feed aggregator.<br /> In computing, a feed aggregator, also known as a feed reader, news reader or simply aggregator, is client software or a Web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing. (Source - WikiPedia)</p> <p>That’s pretty much what WPThemesNews is !<br /> We take feeds from the sites offering free and/or premium wordpress themes and we display them on WPThemesNews.com for easy viewing.</p> <p>Why WPThemesNews ?</p> <p>WPThemesNews reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check free and/or premium wordpress themes websites for updates. Isn’t it enough for you ? :)</p> <p>Have a look and see for yourself !<br /> <a href="http://www.wpthemesnews.com" rel="nofollow">www.wpthemesnews.com</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/new-wp-plugin-affiliate-program#post-3234 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:50:05 +0000 DanGrossman 3234@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>There is now an affiliate program available paying 30% per sale of the WP Review Site plugin. This is a great program to promote if your blog reaches other bloggers, affiliate marketers and WordPress users.</p> <p><a href="http://www.wpreviewsite.com/affiliates" rel="nofollow">http://www.wpreviewsite.com/affiliates</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/win-100-800-at-a-contest-for-bloggers-038-designers#post-3138 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:58:19 +0000 TrentyF 3138@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Flashmint has just started a contest for designers and bloggers. It is going to be interesting for the community.<br /> So, here are the details:<br /> 1. If you are <strong>a designer</strong>, you can win <strong>a $500 prize</strong> if create a wordpress theme for <a href="http://www.flashmint.com/wp/">Flashmint Blog</a>. All other worthy participants' designs will be showcased at Flashmint blog along with links to authors' websites.</p> <p>Requirements:</p> <ul> <li>3 columns;</li> <li>fixed width (1024*768 resolution) and widget support;</li> <li>coded;</li> <li>the colors and style of the theme should correspond to Flashmint design!</li> </ul> <p>2. If you are <strong>a blogger</strong>, you can get <strong>$300, $200 and $100</strong> respectively for the first, second, third largest number of visitors you will send to Flashmint Blog.<br /> What is more, ALL the participants will get <strong>free PR4 backlinks</strong>.</p> <p>Full contest rules, details and a submission form can be found here - <a href="http://www.flashmint.com/wp/2008/08/win-cash-at-flashmint-contest/">Flashmint Contest</a></p> <p><strong>Terms:</strong> August, 1 - September, 1<br /> <strong>Payment method:</strong>PayPal</p> <p><strong>Hurry up! There is not much time left!</strong> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/jacobfresconl-wordpress-plugins-moved#post-3038 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:44:10 +0000 JacobFresco 3038@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>The plugins by Jacob Fresco (jacobfresco.nl) have moved. <a href="mailto:Sm@uce">Sm@uce</a> - Coalition of Creators is the new home. Current and future releases will be available for download at <a href="http://www.smauce.nl" rel="nofollow">http://www.smauce.nl</a></p> <p>The plugins concerned are OutOfDate 0.3, JewishDate 0.3 and UnderConstruction 0.1 </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/june-17-is-download-day-2008-for-firefox-3#post-2939 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:19:17 +0000 MichaelH 2939@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Don't forget to pledge [1] to download Firefox 3 on June 17, 2008</p> <p>[1] <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/" rel="nofollow">http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/upgrading-wordpress-in-ten-easy-steps#post-2937 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:59:57 +0000 banago 2937@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>It came to my mind to write an easy and short how-to to explain for not very techy people the way to upgrade their self-hosted WordPress, when one of my clients asked me why her admin interface was showing that she should upgrade WordPress to the latest version. She thought she had already done that. In fact she had, but to the version 2.5. Now it is a long time WordPress version 2.5.1 is available. Well, this can help my client to upgrade WordPress herself, but I would love also this this help hundreds of others. Enough with the words, let us begin.</p> <p>More at <a href="http://www.wplancer.com/?p=52">WordPress Freelancer Blog</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/new-a-tool-to-sell-articles-on-any-weblog#post-2917 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:41:08 +0000 lisacremer 2917@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>With Oronjo.com, you can sell articles on any weblog. A unique service that is a 100% free. We host the secure part of your article, but all formatting and functionality stays the same. You don’t need to have a PayPal or Google Checkout account, everything is done automatically. And, of course, you can also sell many other digital goods.</p> <p>With all that ‘free buzz’, why sell content?</p> <p>o The free philosophy is based on the idea that somewhere at the end of the line, you are going to sell something. This can be premium content just as well.<br /> o Micropayments are becoming more popular. And with the Oronjo wallet, buying is much easier than searching.<br /> o Today, people more often buy digital goods. Such as iTunes music, H&#38;M clothing in the Sims game, or Radiohead’s latest album In Rainbows.<br /> o Google Adwords doesn’t work so well for smaller, specialized sites. However, it’s harder to get a free version of specialized content than of popular music, so buying this kind of content makes more sense.<br /> o With Oronjo, you can now sell content to raise money for charity.<br /> o Many people are starting to hate advertising more than paying a small fee.<br /> o People who like your work won’t mind supporting you a little.</p> <p>Also, we have a handy Wordpress plugin at <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oronjowordpressplugin/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/oronjowordpressplugin/</a></p> <p>We are actively working on new features and improvements. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.</p> <p>Best regards,</p> <p>Lisa Cremer<br /> lisa { at } oronjo {.} com<br /> Oronjo.com </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/screenshots-for-wordpress-blogs#post-2916 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:29:05 +0000 UseShots 2916@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p><a href="http://blog.useshots.com/2008/06/10/useshots-v06-released-three-article-layouts-available/">UseShots Editor v0.6 released.</a></p> <p><strong>What's new?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Smarter UseShots Camera</li> <li>Tags <code>pre</code> and <code>code</code> are now available</li> <li>3 pre-installed article layouts</li> </ul> <p>Any feedback is welcome. </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/cool-new-blogging-social-site#post-2889 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:54:35 +0000 ashleyford 2889@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>dotdashcreate.com is a new blogging site where you can add your blog and network with like minded bloggers, the site also has Twitter support to easily keep your network upto date. you can also add your blog on the homepage however it is advised to register for constant promotion.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dotdashcreate.com">http://ww.dotdashcreate.com</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/ten-websites-where-you-can-find-web-design-and-developement-jobs#post-2868 Thu, 29 May 2008 09:22:15 +0000 banago 2868@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>There you will find a list of the most powerful web jobs listing sites along with a screenshot and a little description for each. </p> <p>Read now: <a href="http://www.wplancer.com/?p=4">Ten Websites Where You Can Find Web Design and Developement Jobs</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/infriging-wordpress-trademark#post-2830 Wed, 21 May 2008 13:36:52 +0000 Truden 2830@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>When and how domain name can infringe trademark?<br /> <a href="http://wordpress.mu/1423.html">What stays behind Automattic's efforts to keep WordPress trademark out of the domain names of WordPress fans?</a></p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.mu/1423.html#respond">Do you have an opinion?</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/screenshots-for-wordpress-blogs#post-2766 Wed, 14 May 2008 18:07:16 +0000 UseShots 2766@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Finally, <a href="http://blog.useshots.com/2008/05/14/useshots-v05-released-wordpress-categories-support-added/"> UseShots Editor v0.5 supports WordPress categories.</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/ten-bulletproof-strategies-for-promoting-your-blog#post-2752 Mon, 12 May 2008 16:34:49 +0000 banago 2752@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Read more at <a href="http://www.xixblog.com/?p=20" rel="nofollow">http://www.xixblog.com/?p=20</a></p> <p><strong>1. Write fresh, qualitative and unique content</strong> to make visitors read, comment and refer to your articles. Not only will worth-reading content keep visitors coming back, but it will make others come at your blog through referring links. Good articles will rise the authority of your blog and will make you a well-known author.</p> <p><strong>2. Post at regular bases</strong> to keep the interest of the visitors active and make them come back to get more form your blog. This will find it worthy to subscribe by email or get the RSS feed of your blog to stay tuned. And the most they subscribe and come back to your blog, the greater will your blog grow and so will your fame and revenue.</p> <p><strong>3. Interact with your visitors</strong> through fanatically responding to their comments. They will translate this into a welcome and will feel comfortable at your blog. Once you give them pleasure and make them feel important, you will have them come back, if not for your posts, for your good company. This is a good way to make keyboard (the time of pen is done) friends; remember. friends are there in good and bad times.</p> <p>Read more at <a href="http://www.xixblog.com/?p=20" rel="nofollow">http://www.xixblog.com/?p=20</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/what-do-you-thing-about-my-new-design#post-2740 Sat, 10 May 2008 06:51:51 +0000 banago 2740@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Color Combination: I would like to be discussed is the color combination. How do you find it? Is it eye-friendly? What about the background, do you think it should have a color, or it is alright?</p> <p>Images: What do you thing about the images? Is there something that needs to be removed or something that needs to be there and is not? what about the actual images design, how do you like them?</p> <p>Sidebar: I do not like the sidebar myself, however I need some suggestion how to get it better as I cannot do much now that I am tired. A good question would be: what needs to be there and what needs to be removed? but this is not the only topic to suggest about.</p> <p>Monetization: As you can see a have monetized the blog. How do you find the placement of the ads? Do you have any suggestion?</p> <p>Please check here: <a href="http://www.xixblog.com/?p=19" rel="nofollow">http://www.xixblog.com/?p=19</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/minimalist-wordpress-theme-development#post-2640 Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:24:38 +0000 banago 2640@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>When I began to explore the WordPress theme code at my beginnings with WordPress, I came across a problem that I could solve only after a while. At that time I had no idea of minimalist web design, yet I wanted to stick to a minimalist web development habit, i.e. code less and have less files. While coding less can be grasped immediately as a saver of time, bugs and nerves, minimalist design is harder to understand in nature as it has to do more with arts. Even though now I am able to color some pixels on the screen about minimalist web design, it is not what I intend to discuss here. I want to share with you what I kept for a invention at the time my PHP grasp was very immature.</p> <p>For more please visit the <a href="http://www.xixblog.com/?p=15" title=" Minimalist WordPress Theme Development">article at XIXblog</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/why-i%e2%80%99m-against-selling-established-personal-blogs#post-2626 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:44:25 +0000 banago 2626@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>First let me be clear; I am not against selling web property, including blogs, what I am against is selling your own personal blog where you write about subjects you are fond of and make a little (or more) money out of it. This is the case of The WWW Observer which is for sale by its founder and posts’ author. Well he is selling the blog for his own reasons, which I am not going to discuss here. What I am going to discuss here are my own reasons why I wouldn’t take the step to sell it.</p> <p>a) I would not sell my blog as it is very dear to me. I find a blog as a baby; first it is an idea in your mind, than you begin working on its implementation, than you suffer as it is growing up, then you are very happy when you see it growing bigger and making your life better. It is very related to you.</p> <p>To read more please go at <a href="http://www.xixblog.com/?p=13" title="Why I’m Against Selling Established Personal Blogs"> XixBlog.Com</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/screenshots-for-wordpress-blogs#post-2609 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:20:57 +0000 UseShots 2609@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>UseShots Editorv 0.4.1 released.<br /> <a href="http://blog.useshots.com/2008/04/17/useshots-v041-released-seo-friendly-file-names-and-png-support/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.useshots.com/2008/04/17/useshots-v041-released-seo-friendly-file-names-and-png-support/</a></p> <p><strong>What's new in version 0.4.1?</strong></p> <ul> <li>SEO-friendly image file names</li> <li>PNG support</li> <li>More proportional screen shot scaling</li> <li>More prominent screen shot size and scaling information</li> </ul> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/screenshots-for-wordpress-blogs#post-2567 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:21:56 +0000 UseShots 2567@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>UseShots Editor v0.4 released.<br /> <a href="http://blog.useshots.com/2008/04/08/useshots-editor-v04-released/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.useshots.com/2008/04/08/useshots-editor-v04-released/</a></p> <p><strong>New features:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Screen capture timer</li> <li>Images can be pasted from clipboard</li> <li>Images can be loaded from files on disk</li> <li>Improved quality of GIF screen shots</li> <li>More HTML tags can be used in editor</li> <li>WordPress 2.5 support</li> </ul> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/screenshots-for-wordpress-blogs#post-2494 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:30:09 +0000 UseShots 2494@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Another update. UseShots Editor is now friendly to owners of multiple WordPress blogs.<br /> <a href="http://blog.useshots.com/2008/03/25/update-useshots-editor-is-now-friendly-to-owners-of-multiple-blogs/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.useshots.com/2008/03/25/update-useshots-editor-is-now-friendly-to-owners-of-multiple-blogs/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/beginners-get-a-good-theme#post-2418 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:25:02 +0000 erebus1 2418@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Thanks for the heads up, I didn't look at it in that light, I changed the link to another site I used, wpskins.org... </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/beginners-get-a-good-theme#post-2417 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:44:01 +0000 Len 2417@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>In your article you refer to topwpthemes.com. This site encrypts the footer code in some of the themes it offers for download. NEVER use a theme that contains obfuscated code and STAY AWAY from sites that engage in this practice. They have no place in the WordPress community. </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/beginners-get-a-good-theme#post-2416 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:19:32 +0000 erebus1 2416@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>SharkFOO.com</p> <p>One of the building blocks of a popular website is its design. It's the first thing the visitor sees when they happen upon your site and first impressions are the most important to new users. There's something about a website with a good design. You get the feeling that the author actually cares about what he/she is presenting to you, and it will probably cause you to take them a bit more serious then if they were using a default template...</p> <p>Check out the Full Post Here<br /> <a href="http://www.sharkfoo.com/24/get-a-good-theme" rel="nofollow">http://www.sharkfoo.com/24/get-a-good-theme</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/screenshots-for-wordpress-blogs#post-2387 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:00:46 +0000 UseShots 2387@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>I have an update that makes it possible to play with UseShots Editor even on live blogs without need to publish anything. </p> <p>Just save your article as drafts until you are confident enough with the program.</p> <p><a href="http://blog.useshots.com/2008/03/05/update-now-you-can-save-articles-as-drafts/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.useshots.com/2008/03/05/update-now-you-can-save-articles-as-drafts/</a> </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/5000-prize-giveaway-graphic-design-group-writing-project#post-2371 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:32:03 +0000 LearningNerd 2371@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Jacob Cass over at Just Creative Design has a <a href="http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/02/17/5000-dollar-prize-giveaway-graphic-design-group-writing-project/">Graphic Design Group Writing Project</a> with over $5000 in prizes! If you're interested in design, write a blog post about design and submit it there. The deadline is Tuesday, March 4th 2008.</p> <p>I think it's a great idea to bring bloggers together and encourage aspiring designers to join the community. So spread the word! </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/screenshots-for-wordpress-blogs#post-2356 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:03:55 +0000 UseShots 2356@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>I've just released a beta version of a desktop tool called UseShots Editor.</p> <p>It's a free specialized program that will help bloggers take screenshots, annotate them and instantly publish on their blogs.</p> <p>Here is the introduction:<br /> <a href="http://blog.useshots.com/2008/02/29/screen-shots-for-blogs-meet-the-useshots/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.useshots.com/2008/02/29/screen-shots-for-blogs-meet-the-useshots/</a></p> <p>Tutorial: <a href="http://blog.useshots.com/2008/02/22/getting-started-with-useshots-editor/">Getting Started with UseShots Editor</a><br /> (Created and published using UseShots Editor)</p> <p><a href="http://blog.useshots.com/download/">Download</a></p> <p>Current version works with WordPress' blogs only (both self-hosted and Wordpress.com-hosted). </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/nofollow-and-the-spam-war-arms-race#post-2348 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:34:51 +0000 gestroud 2348@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Good reading. You raised some interesting points in your article. Definitely something that needs to be taken into consideration in spam fighting and page ranking. </p> http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/topic/nofollow-and-the-spam-war-arms-race#post-2344 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:30:14 +0000 douglsmith 2344@http://weblogtoolscollection.com/news/ <p>Some recent findings about how blogs without nofollow on the comments are being abused.<br /> <a href="http://smithsrus.com/nofollow-and-the-spam-war-arms-race/" rel="nofollow">http://smithsrus.com/nofollow-and-the-spam-war-arms-race/</a> </p>