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Over the past few days, I have been toying around with the idea of setting up WordPress as the CMS for a web site directory. One thing I wanted to do with my personal finance directory is to show a thumbnail image of the featured site when I am on the main page, category [...]

Ever since my host upgraded my admin control panel to Plesk 8.3.0, I have been running into problem backing up large MySQL databases using PhpMyAdmin. For whatever reason, the export function will only generate 0 byte SQL backup file. Moreover, it’s becoming quite a chore to backup 9 databases spread across 7 domains [...]

Finding a good web site name is not as easy as it used to be. Actually, it hasn’t been easy for a long time now because a lot of good domain names have been taken. However, it is still possible to find the perfect domain name for your blog. In this post, I will share [...]

One of the most common design issues associated with web sites, and especially with blogs, is clutter. It’s so easy to fill the sidebar with links, widgets, and clicklets. So easy that even the most ardent minimalists have to stop and unclutter their sites from time to time. So, how do you decide if something [...]

Sooner or later, your beloved WordPress blog will be flooded with comment and trackback spams. As a blogger, there is not much you can do to stop spams from hitting your blog, but there are several things you could do to fight them back.

5 Levels of Spam Protection
1. Discussion Settings
A key setting in your [...]

Whoa, is there such a thing as the wrong WordPress theme? Sadly, the answer is yes. There are literally thousands of themes out there. There are some really good ones, and inevitably, there are some bad ones too.

Where to find WordPress themes
Before I show you what make a theme bad, I would like to share [...]

Perhaps one of the best decisions I’ve made in my blogging career was to start the M-Network. I was lucky enough to hook up with 9 other great bloggers. Although we are not always like-minded, it makes us a stronger bunch as we bring our own unique perspective to the network. Due to [...]

Over the past few weeks, my friends and I wrote about different aspects of blogging and how to position your blog more successful. In this post, I would like to take a step back and talk about how to start a blog. Specifically, I will discuss how to start a self-hosted WordPress blog since [...]

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is The authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. HTML is similar to SGML, although it is not a strict subset.
HTML defines the structure and layout of a web document by using a variety of tags and attributes. The correct structure for an HTML document starts [...]

Many bloggers and webmasters are familiar with AdSense and its potential to generate excellent revenue for blogs and web sites. Unfortunately, many bloggers and webmasters focus too much on AdSense and forget that there are other types of advertising — i.e., CPM advertising — that could improve their blog monetization further, and without affecting [...]