Archive for January, 2007

How to tease your blog readers and gain more page views

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

While blog-browsing today I found out how to implement Post teasers on my blog’s front page - something that I was always curious about. Why would I want to tease my readers? Because
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how to get inspired

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

It’s not that I feel uninspired sometimes, but I do occasionally feel that I need an extra boost for my inspiration. Here are a few sites and resources that I found very inspirational:
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WordPress 2.1 - new and useful features

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

I just found out that WordPress 2.1 will be released on January 22, 2007. It’s interesting to notice that if not for Technosailor’s 10 Things You should Know About WordPress 2.1 I wouldn’t be able to find out what are the new WordPress features (I guess I should subscribe to their beta-testers list). Even WordPress […]

Will money change the world?

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Most probably everyone heard of the MillionDollarHomepage project by Alex Tew, a British student, who sold 1 million pixels of internet ad space on his website for $1 each, in hopes of paying his way through university. Well, now several years later, a Russian student - Andrey Veprikov is following his steps. He’s running a […]

Do all successful bloggers blog full time?

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

For the last few months I’ve visited hundreds of blogs, read hundreds of posts on how to be a successful blogger. I’ve been doing it for slightly over a month now, and I do find it to be very challenging to post regularly and as often as I would like to. It is hard […]

Ali - The Greatest inspiration in the history of sport

Thursday, January 18th, 2007

On January 17 Muhammad Ali - the Greatest boxer of all times - turned 65. I just had to write a post about him. I can’t really name another sportsman who had as much charisma and who is as popular and truly the Greatest as Ali. Do you know?
When Ali was 12 years old, his […]

Exporting / importing database tables

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

If you ever need to export certain records from a MySQL table in order to import them into another table in a different (or even the same) database (say you want to export some records from your old blog to a new one), then you should simply follow these 3 steps:
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Horisontal website designs

Monday, January 15th, 2007

It became almost an unofficial rule in web design that horisontal scrolling in websites is bad.
I only partially agree - it’s bad if users have to scroll both vertically and horisontally, but if you manage to eliminate vertical scrolling, leaving only one horisontal one, you can achieve some very interesting unusual layouts and effects.
Here’s the […]