Saturday, 16 February 2008
Since I published the Zo’C powerblogroll plugin, I have received a lot of feedback from users who’d like to use the plugin but they are discouraged by the fact that you need to deal with PHP code, even if it is in a very small amount.
I’m willing to release a new, much more user friendly, version. But while this doesn’t happen, I’ve recorded two videos showing how to install and configure the plugin.
In the video, I use the One Click Install plugin that is a great one and I strongly recommend. If you don’t want to use it, however, you’ll have to use the normal FTP method as with any other plugin.
Installing, activating, and using the plugin from your theme
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Adding links to Wordpress
In case you don’t know how to fill all the information that your Powerbloroll can display (such as the favicon, description, notes, RSS, etc.) this video shows you how to do it.
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Tired of that old Archive page that displays the months in which you have posts? Even worse, tired of that bulk on your sidebar?
If you come to think of it, it is probably helping your visitors very little, unless they are looking for a specific post and have a rather good idea of when it was published. But if they do know that much, they are more likely to use the search box instead.
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Saturday, 2 February 2008
Like many people, it’s been quite a while that I hear about podcasts, but haven’t really been catching up on this technology, but some weeks ago, I suddently became interested on this technology and subscribed to a couple of them.
While some turned out really boring and unsibscribed soon, others got me thinking:
If I had this kind of technology when I was a geek teen, I’d be delighted! Finding resources for my crazy projects would have been so much easier.
And then a question popped into my mind, just as there are great podcasts out there and, further, it is a wonderful technology whose full use still have to be show, there is a lot of garbage out there and that could not be a good thing for children.
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Saturday, 19 January 2008
Consider this:
How lost is a visitor that come to your 404 and how lost is a visitor that comes to your home page?
Home pages are not what they used to be. Unless you are a big site, people don’t go to your index page and try to find something on it.
Say I’m looking for Strawberry Jam. I know lots and lots of sites about food, but I won’t look strawberry jam in any of them, I’ll go to mother google and ask.
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Michael Martine from Remarkablogger has launched a free e-book for subcribers to his blog.
The e-book How to Start a Business Blog covers with a great informal tone 12 steps to plan a successful blog with exercises that, above all, help you get organized. A must read!
Thursday, 29 November 2007
It is the law of the market, if people are interested in your work, no matter the reason, you can make a lot of money. If people are not interested in what you do, no matter how well you do it.
Designers, software developers and other people who can do valuable work quickly and enjoying it seem to face a moral problem with charging good money for it, and when they not, they have a bad time explaining the price to clients that ask why would you charge so much for something that you will do in little time and enjoying it.
Why is the client wrong on these assumptions?
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Thursday, 22 November 2007
Some time ago I was looking for a plugin that showed both favicon and name on a Wordpress blogroll. As I couldn’t find it, I had to made my own, but the code wasn’t general enough to distribute it.
Recently I have created a powerful blogroll, in the form of a page template, capable to display the name, favicon, description, notes and even the RSS link of blogs in your blogroll, because blogrolls with just a list of links are not useful anymore.
Now I have packaged it as a plugin for your delight: The ZoC Powerblogroll.
Download it right away, or go to the plugin page.
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This plugin has been downloaded 4025 times.
I have just published Zo’C Subcats, a wordpress plugin that enables you to display either a list or a drop down menu with the subcategories of a category of your choice. The plugin gracefully degrades in absence of Javascript.
You can read further instructions and download it on the plugin page or you can download it immediately here.
The plugin started humbly to address a need of my fellow blogger Desty, and was published thanks to the incentive of Michael and Jen.
Any feedback is welcome :-)
Enjoy!
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This plugin has been downloaded 1206 times.
How often you click on the archives on the sidebar of a blog? How often do you follow links in a blogroll that you didn’t knew already? In my site, according to my statistics, almost no one does it.
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Saturday, 20 October 2007
Apparently there is a new law in Italy that demands a Blogger or web publisher to be registered with the government and pay a fee, even if your blog doesn’t have anything to do with making money, that applies to a teenager writing on his/her hobby as much as a problogger.
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