Fresh out the box, WordPress comments just are not enough for me. I don’t want someone to have to fill out any extra forms to comment, especially when I despise doing that myself. It is not like this place is some hotbed of conversation so I can understand if people would see extra work to [...]
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Does Duct Tape Work on WordPress?
After having used WordPress and phpBB separately for some time, the need to combine them did not happen until recently. Considering the popularity of the two, you would think that there would be an easy way to glue them together already. This does not seem to be the case. This was a shock to me, [...]
Ads and Artisteer
To state the obvious, ads are usually annoying. Usually they are only vaguely related to the content on the page and most of the time it is a highest bidder situation and not one where the website owner actually cares about the product. While this is totally understandable when the money is right, many of [...]
Discussing Disqus
While we still dig the idea of what Disqus does, it is about time for us to reevaluate the necessity of it. To be honest, it was installed in an attempt to gain conversation. When conversation did not happen, it didn’t bother me that no one was talking, but it felt like we put this [...]
You May Have Missed These
In case you have been in a black hole, here is a list of stuff you may have missed: Google Wave It looks awesome, but a bunch of the features already exist with a combination of services (mostly Friendfeed). Bing Microsoft’s “new” search engine. The name will probably work better than the Live branding. Facebook [...]
Favicons Are Our Friends
Image via Wikipedia Sure there are plenty of posts out there on the internet covering this same topic. For some reason there are still not enough sources. So here is one more. Favicon = is a small graphic that is associated with a page or Web site. (short for favorite icon, sometimes understood as favorites [...]
7 Resources For Creating Habari Themes
As mentioned here before. on my personal blog I decided to install Habari. While I still enjoy working with WordPress here and elsewhere, I have found Habari suits my personal blog quite well since I do not need all the bells and whistles which I use elsewhere. Unfortunately, the one thing the platform does lack [...]
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