For most bloggers, when blog designing comes into the picture, one key question is always pondered upon: How many columns should my blog theme have, or rather, how many sidebars should it have? In the past (where past isn’t really that far back), most would answer either 1 or 2 sidebars, with perhaps a couple […]

Blogger / Blogspot is such a popular free blog platform / host that all of its default templates, though well-designed, have already reached the “boring, been there” status. This is compounded by the fact that good Blogger template designers are few and far between.
So, it’s nice to see that Gecko and Fly are distributing some […]

Although Six Apart announced that Movable Type 3.3 would be ready for beta testing as early as next week yesterday, they did not touch on MT 3.3’s new features.
So, it isn’t surprising that Six Apart finally found time to do just that today. Among the announced new features are a built-in tagging system, search and […]

Over at ProNet, it has been announced that Movable Type 3.3 is “just about ready” and will be released for beta testing as early as next week.
While the announcement doesn’t state the new features being lined up for beta testing, it’s encouraging that we’re at least seeing some sort of movement forward for MT. […]

We’ve all heard about the importance of post titles. The greater their impact, the higher the chance someone will actually bother to read your 400-1000 word blog post. But I’m not here to just tell you that.
I’m here to point you to an in incredibly intuitive, yet excellent post by Brian Clark on very specific […]

While Paul Stamatiou recently got significant link love for his very comprehensive article on how to start blogging, I was more interested in an older blog post of his on setting up Gmail as a webmail alternative for your domain email accounts.
Admittedly, one reason for this is the fact that I’ve fallen in love with […]

JenSense reports that Adsense video ads have “graduated” from the rich media beta test to become part of the Adsense ad lineup, but these ads will only be available to AdWords advertisers in the United States, Canada and Japan.
Both CPM and CPC video ads will be available, and like Adsense’s text and image ads, the […]

Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger just wrote on the benefits of highlighting popular posts on one’s blog (after he noted a similar post by Stephan Spencer using ProBlogger’s top menus as an example). Just like how previous writings on this subject have tended to be, it’s an all benefits-type of post, which should normally be […]