Archive for June, 2007

Blog Rating – What is your blog?
25
Jun

Blog Rating – What is your blog?

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in Blogging Tips with 1 Comment

Found this pretty cool tool that gives your blog a rating. as you can see below, this blog is rated G. Although from what I can gather the process seems to involve scanning your site for bad words (Quote: “No bad words were found.”), which may not be the best method to score such things. [...]

Google Adsense…or is that Ad cents?
03
Jun

Google Adsense…or is that Ad cents?

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in Other Stuff with 43 Comments

A harsh reality for anyone starting out at the online game is that in most cases the money will come in, in cents rather than the big bucks you are dreaming about. Regardless of the idea, or model you are getting into, unless you have a preexisting audience, you are probably going to have to do [...]

Windows Live Writer Review
03
Jun

Windows Live Writer Review

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in Blogging Tips with 2 Comments

Windows Live Writer is offline blog editing software and I really like it. Why use an offline editor like Live Writer for posting to your blog instead of the built in editor: 1) Plug-ins – there are all sorts of plug-ins that make creating interesting well formatted posts a breeze, with all sorts of functionality, [...]

5 things you may not know about WordPress
02
Jun

5 things you may not know about WordPress

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in Blogging Tips, Wordpress with No Comments

After recently going through the process of setting up WordPress and this site, I feel I have learnt certain things that may help other WordPress users. This article is a report of my experience. 1) You can post to WordPress using Windows Live Writer offline blog writing software. The software at first glance appears to be [...]

Free Stock Image Sites
02
Jun

Free Stock Image Sites

Written by Simon Ward. Posted in Graphics with 18 Comments

It’s quite a difficult task to find clean, crisp, relevant, yet legal images to use on a Website. If you understand what copyright is you will know that you can’t just grab any old image you see on the web and place it on your own site. So where do you get images from? Stock [...]

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