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Archive for the Designing News category.

What’s Your Preferred Mobile Blogging Solution?

Posted on June 9th, 2008 by admin in Designing News

I recently acquired a WiFi-enabled Smartphone for use as my main mobile. The Nokia E51 runs on the Symbian Series 60 platform (version 3), and can connect to the Internet via wireless LAN and other cellular-based systems like HSDPA, 3G, GPRS and a host of other acronyms that would leave me breathless. And so having […]

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Possibly Related

Posted on June 7th, 2008 by admin in Designing News

Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg just loves www.icanhascheezburger.com .  Why?  Well “partly” because it runs on Wordpress (has 1 Million hits a day) and “largely” because he loves cats.  Kidding.  Mullenweg was very subtle with his WordPress promotions during the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco just last April 2008.  He did manage to be the […]

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Last.fm packages for WordPress

Posted on June 6th, 2008 by admin in Designing News

Perhaps due to the social networking phenomena, Last.fm is now re-packaging its code by extending its arms to the social networking world, the blogging community and photo sharing sites as new partnerships with a plethora of platforms including iGoogle, Bebo, Photobucket, Wordpress and Six Apart see the launch of its new ‘Last.fm in a box’ […]

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Wordpress Upgrading Options

Posted on June 5th, 2008 by admin in Designing News

A few weeks ago one of my clients asked me to upgrade their WordPress versions from 2.5 to 2.5.1.  I was a little reluctant to make the jump.  You see, I’m the type that waits for Fantastico to support the WordPress version before I actually make the upgrade.  I figured that IF Fantastico would support […]

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How Much Would You Pay for Blog Design?

Posted on May 25th, 2008 by admin in Designing News

Recently, Franky asked how much you think a WordPress installation is worth to you, and if you would be willing to pay for it if you had to. For most WordPress users, WP runs as a personal publishing platform. For some of us, though, we run sites on WordPress for a living. This means WP […]

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Use aideRSS To Monitor Your Blogs

Posted on May 15th, 2008 by admin in Designing News

Many among us manage, or write on, several blogs. Sometimes it isn’t easy to monitor your blogs or your entries. There are many awesome statistic plugins such as Google Analytics or the Splashpress owned PMetrics.Lately I have discovered a new tool to monitor my blogs or the blogs I write on: aideRSS. Much has been […]

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Would You Pay For WordPress and How Much?

Posted on May 12th, 2008 by admin in Designing News

Ryan Spoon’s 15 Websites/Services I’d Pay For raises an interesting issue: would you pay for your WordPress installation?The benefit of blogging with WP is so significant (SEO, functionality, flexibility) that it’s well worth paying for. I’d probably pay a $200 for an installation… which makes me realize how much I rely on the product.Add to […]

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7 Different Ways To Use WordPress

Posted on May 11th, 2008 by admin in Designing News

Since the 2.x release of WordPress, the blogging platform has more and more been praised because of its versatility. Obviously, WordPress is mostly known as a blog platform, but depending on your creativity, you can do much more with the very flexible platform.No limits are set and over the next weeks we will dig a […]

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To Cache or Not to Cache?

Posted on May 7th, 2008 by admin in Designing News

If you’re running your blog from a hosted platform, such as wordpress.com, Typepad or Blogger, you probably don’t have to worry about database (and/or PHP) servers choking and bandwidth running out. For folks who run blogs on their own hosting accounts or servers, this is a possibility. Yet then again, for the average blogger bandwidth […]

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Self-hosted Blog Options

Posted on May 5th, 2008 by admin in Designing News

Although WordPress.com and many other bloghosting platforms offer many advantages, as outlined in a previous entry by David Peralty many people prefer to host, more even own their content. One can think of many reasons to host their own content, other than the most heard customization limits wordpress.com usually faces:Freedom to switch services or hosting […]

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