Effective Classy Websites

The developers at WordPress have been working tirelessly as usual and this release we are seeing some very practical user friendly features. This highlights the power of an open source project that encourages open discussion and sharing.

A summary of the new features are:

1. Global trash/undo feature that allows you to rescue files and posts that are deleted. WordPress empties the trash after 30 days in the same way your computer does.
2. The Built-in image editor lets you to crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale your images. Very cool!
3. Go to the Tools >> Upgrade menu to update all the plugins with one click.
4. Easy video embed support that converts a video URL into the correct embed code. Support for YouTube, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, Flickr, Hulu, Viddler, Qik, Revision3, Scribd, Google Video, Photobucket, PollDaddy, and WordPress.tv with more to come. Read the rest of this entry »

What is a Favicon? It’s a small 16×16 pixel icon that shows up in your browser to the left of the web address.

It also helps distinguish your site in your browsers bookmarks and is also used in some social bookmarking sites as well. Here’s how you can easily create the file and make it show up on your website.

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With a few clicks, your whole WordPress site can look totally different. The content remains but is displayed differently thanks to some awesome coding wizardry. Fortunately for us, getting some new layouts for your site is pretty easy.

This will show you how to upload and install a new WP theme that you have downloaded. It also covers how to browse the WordPress.org themes site as well. Read the rest of this entry »

Making use of the huge range of great plugins (essentially add-on code for your website) became wonderfully easy from WordPress 2.7 and onwards.

Here we show you how to quickly and easily find and add plugins to your self-hosted WordPress website. Read the rest of this entry »

Having an email sign-up form on your site is essential, but some of the solutions are either too complicated or cost money.

Fortunately Google comes to the rescue here with a website they acquired last year. Feedburner. Read the rest of this entry »

After you have bought a new domain name, you will want to start using it as a website address, for email or both.

First you need to make sure that the DNS settings in your domain control panel point to your hosting account.

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The DNS Settings will have been sent to you when you first purchased your web hosting server space. The Email will look something like this: Read the rest of this entry »

Daniel Scocco over at Daily Blog Tips has just published an e-book called “Making Money Blogging” that gives some  awesome clearly written information about how you can earn money blogging.

You need to sign up to his mailing list to get the free e-book. Click here to get started:

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/make-money-blogging/

The e-book is broken into in 5 chapters: Content, Design & Usability, Networking, Promotion and Monetization. Read the rest of this entry »