May 2007
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Pink and Blue: Free WordPress Theme
Pink and Blue is a totally free WordPress theme ready to unzip, upload to your themes folder and activate. It’s a colorful 3-column theme with lightweight graphics, validates fully as XHTML strict, intended for (18-21) adult blogs, but easily adapted for other purposes.
Monetizing Your Blog
Blogs can be fun and profitable, but they aren’t magic bullets guaranteeing fame and fortune. The choice between blog and splog is up to you: done right, both can work so long as your strategy matches that choice. Real blogging is the way to go if you want the most out of the search engines for each of your sites, but be prepared for the work which is involved.
Technorati Tags
Tags, or “Technorati Tags” as they are often referred to, partly to distinguish them from meta tags, are useful not only to ensure correction classification in some blog directories, but for enhancing your blog in other ways. This article looks at some of the do’s and don’ts of tagging.
De-mystifying WordPress
Even as commercial software, WordPress would be amazing. It is easy to install and easy to use. But you are almost certainly going to want your site to have its own look and when you take a look at a theme for the first time – especially if you are not overly familiar with PHP and CSS – what you see may make no sense at all. This article will try to demystify WordPress theme files and show you that they are not nearly as complex as they may first appear.
CSS Basic Page Structure
CSS separates content from design making your sites easier to maintain, faster loading and more search-engine friendly. And if you build basic templates for the layouts you commonly use, just open one up for every new page or site and part of your work is already done.
Certainly using CSS means learning some new code and looking at coding in a slightly different way. But instead of continuing to build sites using outdated code, a little time invested now will save you a lot later.
WordPress Plugins
No blog or message board is complete without plugins and mods. This board is no different, so here is credit to the authors who wrote the add-ins and a useful list for anyone looking to customize their own sites.