If you like History, WWII history and as Andrew puts it, the Dawn of a Nuclear Era you will like this piece. He writes about "the only survivor of both atomic blasts over Japan during the Second World War", Tsutomu Yamaguchi. Interesting read, check it out.
I think I have found the easiest way to blog. It is Posterous, a service much like Tumblr, and other micro-blogging services and other regular services. In fact you can easily convert a WordPress site to something that looks like Tumblr or Posterous. But with that said, most services still require that you register and…
I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to post much around here. Aside from a couple of help-style posts, I have some stuff to give you a heads up about. Over the next few weeks or few months, I’m going to be migrating some content onto this site. You might have seen…
The plugin wp-e-commerce keeps getting regular updates. There is a new update for it available in the control panel of your plugin administrative dashboard in WordPress. But before you upgrade automatically, you should read this: The update instructions in the readme file are pretty clear. Just copy over the existing files and you should be…
I’ve been working on two sites to bring forward a shop. One of the sites is solely based on wp-e-commerce and wordpress and the shop functions will be in a catalog format. The other site will only have shopping functions, like “add to cart” or “buy now”. I have to do testing a lot to…
Recently I’ve been battling with a couple of issues on my site. I’ve been wanting to customize it and make it stand out from the rest but every time I got to the point where I need to pick the content to show in different places, I would run into strange 404 pages. For example,…
I got the chance to attend WordCamp LA this past weekend and I loved it. This was the first WordCamp I attend so I didn’t know what to expect. All in all, the event was great and thanks to Austin Passy and all the people that worked with him to put it together. In Ali…
The blogging experience is not just about writing. Bloggers are becoming more and more tech savvy because of the skills needed to run a website that stands outside the rest. Some bloggers have learned to use PHP, or MySQL, SSh and other tools generally reserved for Network and Systems Administrators. Marketing skills have to be…
While you are developing your website, you should keep it hidden as much as possible. Both from people and from search engines. The reason behind this is to prevent it from being indexed or linked to until you think its ready. It isn’t a good idea to let Search Engines index your website, then change…
So you’re ready to start your blogging. You already have hosting, or you have selected your Blogging Platform. You know your URL, your username and password. Right? By the way, if you see a survey, please take a second to answer it. [poll id=”2″] The steps: Hide it Give me 6+4 Link out Pick a schedule…
Is it that it is published everyday? Is it that it runs on a “blog” engine like WordPress? I would say no, and no. I have a few sites that automatically publish information, not everyday but every hour; I don’t consider them blogs. And also no to the second question, The best example I can…
Nextgen Gallery is awesome, it displays images in your WordPress installation in a way that is very customizable and using the plugin itself is a breeze. Recently it got updated to version 1.3.4 3.1.5 1.4.1. If you’re using a custom template, this upgrade most likely broke your installation. The reason seems to be that the…
