Let me tell you a story from real life – my life, actually. In 2011, I was part of a team working on a new website – well, I was a very small part of the team, I had very little to do with the actual development of the site in question and I think … Read more →
SEO, in itself is a two part job – there’s on-page SEO and off-page SEO. Additionally, on-page SEO has two main parts to it as well: (1) the keyword-focused part, and (2) the technical part. Getting the keywords for your site right is a whole different story, and some people even believe that this is … Read more →
Though there are many plugins to make the woothemes customization easier these below mentioned list of plugin is totally dedicated and created for woothemes that will perform better than other plugins. WooThemes Framework Identifier This little plugin will display the current version of woothemes framework in dashboard widget and notify you if any new updates … Read more →
We’ve all been there. You’re out and about, completely immersed in some activity when a moment of sheer brilliance strikes and you know you’ve just stumbled on your next great blog post. Ideas are flying through your head and you need to sit down and write them out rightthisverysecond minus one small detail: you are … Read more →
People use their iPhones for many things; playing games when they’re bored, checking their Facebook and email, however, given that there are so many bloggers out there it’s surprising that many haven’t discovered the joys of blogging from their iPhone yet. Lending itself to being on the move, bloggers have a chance to report on … Read more →
PHP is a brilliant language and probably one of my favorites. It is a relatively easy language to learn and you can do a lot with it – even if right now it doesn’t seem easy. If you can crack the basics and get to grips with a working knowledge of the a few key … Read more →
I’ve said it several times before and I’ll say it again – if you’re just a tiny bit serious about your website, blog or whatever it is that you’re having online, you’ll want to have it hosted somewhere where you have control over your website and you’re not putting all your eggs in a basket … Read more →
G.A.S.P. , GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin, is a WordPress plugin that takes a different approach to spam filtering than Akismet does, which is the anti-spam plugin used by most WordPress bloggers. Instead of analyzing the content of each comment as well as having a giant database with information about which URL’s, IP’s etc. to mark as … Read more →
Internet marketers can be funny from time to time, not all of them of course, but some of them has a tendency to build those amazingly long landing pages (sales pitch pages) where your finger gets all sore after scrolling through it. Obviously they’re doing it because such pages convert better (=more sales) than just … Read more →
WordPress 3.0 has been out for some time now but I don’t feel comfortable upgrading to a new major version until at least one bug fix has been issued, so when 3.0.1 came out, I was ready to upgrade. Unfortunately I was about to go on vacation so I didn’t have time – but now … Read more →
WordPress has garnered much love from the blog community for its ease of installation, ease of configuration, and ease of modification. Many sites are even starting to use it as a content-management system (CMS) to drive the entire site, not just the blog or news portions. The power of WordPress really shines when you begin … Read more →
A few days ago I wrote about the first comment spam that I received from this Dr. Ann Voisin person, a message that is most likely automated and simply abusing the name of the real Dr. Ann Voisin from Linda Christas College. Click here to read that post: Akismet Blocking Your Blog? No Way, Just a SPAM Trick!
I already did one post on SPAM today (read it here: Bloody Sexual Twitter DM’s. Go Away!), so I might as well continue in that track with another SPAM related post for WordPress. As a blogger, getting SPAM comments is to be expected and it happens every day for most blogs, several times a day … Read more →
You can get a free blog hosted at one of Google’s services such as Blogspot or Blogger, but be careful if you decide to do so. Not only are you not in complete control of your own blog, you also run the risk of your blog being closed by Google. According to Guardian, Google has … Read more →
As it turns out, VPS hosting was not for me. Just to recap, here’s the hosting history of TechPatio.com for the past almost 7 months (since TechPatio was first launched): Surftown shared web hosting plan. I’ve been a customer there since 2004 – (a few months). Surftown VPS beta hosting as part of a small … Read more →
Twittley is Twitter tool that allows your blog/website visitors to easily tweet your posts to their Twitter feed, just like Tweetmeme does it. Twittley however, also offers Digg-like features on the Twittley website. Just like you can vote on articles on Digg, by digging them, you can vote on articles on Twittley by tweeting them. … Read more →