Build a Blog

And if so which one?
Social Networking is part of the new web 2.0 technologies and comes under the umbrella of Social Media which also includes blogs, forums, message boards, podcasts, video and pictures.
How does Social Networking work?
They use the collective view of the community to form an opinion, understanding or just share the information [...]

At the beginning of March my case study blog, The Photographer Blog will be 3 months old so I thought it would be a good time to do a quarterly review of how it is doing. I said I would report how it is going, but it does make me feel a little nervous being [...]

I have found some really good plugins recently that save a lot of time and effort on my part, like the Wordpress automatic upgrade plugin that I have just used to upgrade both blogs to version 2.3.3 with just one click!
And now I have just come across another extremely useful plugin, the RSS Footer plugin [...]

Updating your plugins
I got myself in a right pickle over this recently with the case study blog. I was setting the structure of the blog up and had already installed Wordpress which was version 2.3 (recently released) at the time. And I started to add plugins to it.
I had moved this blog from Blogspot [...]

I don’t know about you but I have been having a terrible time trying to find an Adsense plugin to work on my blog. Or even to get Adsense to appear at all even if I put it in by hand.
I wondered if something had happened to my Adsense account but everything seemed fine. And [...]

This is a good question and one I probably shy away from in case I’m not doing very well at it.
When I think back to planning my blogs I set out a plan for what I wanted the blogs to be about and what they would look like. And then I decided who my target [...]

Have you upgraded to Wordpress 2.3 yet?
A couple of weeks ago I found a message in my Wordpress admin panel saying my Wordpress installation was out of date. And I should upgrade to version 2.3 as soon as possible, due to it having a lot of bug fixs in it.
Now that always sends a chill [...]

So here I am at the beginning of 2008 looking forward to the new year and what I want to achieve in it. But it also makes me reflect on the year just gone 2007 and look at what I achieved then, take stock and use it as a guide to move forward in this year.
So here [...]

I am officially launching the case study blog, The Photographer Blog. I have been writing to it for a couple of months and now I have decided it’s time to tell everybody about it. I have been documenting it’s progress from the planning stage onwards on this blog in the case study category, and will continue [...]

This week in Hot Links:
This week I am looking at how easy it is to find good and informative articles through Blog Carnivals. Are they good places to find blogs to read and comment to, and to find fellow bloggers?
Here are three articles that I found on blog carnivals:
The Blog Me Cash carnival had this [...]