I’d wager that a substantial percentage of product bloggers have learnt the power of Chitika eMinimalls (aff link) over the past year or so - perhaps even to the extent that their eMinimalls revenue exceeds AdSense on some of their product blogs.
So, it shouldn’t be surprising to find bloggers who want to place multiple […]

This post was written in advance as I’m currently on vacation in Philippines. As such, I will most likely be unable to reply to any comments, emails or IMs during this period - including those on this post. Thanks for understanding.
If there’s any question that’s been weighing on my mind when writing the Using WordPress […]

In Part 1, we looked at how to setup a simple (mainly graphic-type) portfolio site using nothing other than WordPress (WP). Modifying the WordPress loop to display thumbnails of your projects, individual project pages that displayed a larger image, and categorical listings that also displayed project thumbnails - all in an organised manner - were […]

If you are among the Chitika eMinimalls (aff link) publishers who have been accepted into the ShopLinc beta programme, I’m pretty sure the first thing you would want to do is to setup your blog or site’s ShopLinc on your own domain, e.g. shop.yourdomain.com.
Chitika does have a FAQ entry for this (which has been […]

After having had to read (and post to) blogs under the strict limitations of a PDA, I’ve finally realised how important it is to make blogs PDA-friendly. “Finally” because I’ve actually read (quite a number of) articles promoting usability for handhelds (and you probably have as well), but never found the drive to conquer sheer […]

Now that we’re done with a large portion of the technical basics of Using WordPress (WP) as a CMS, let’s continue on with the next step: Using WP for a portfolio site (primarily graphics and design-based).
If you need a brief overview of portfolio sites and a couple of examples of WP-powered ones, take a short […]

Tip No. 4 to Shamelessly Promote Your Blog: Pitch it to someone big, publicly. No, not that pitch. I’m talking about pitching your blog to Steve Rubel.
All you have to do is to come up with a sub-1 megabyte pitch in either text, PDF or jpg/gif formats. At first, you might not think this […]

Unwinding, but instead of dumping all blogging activities, you write some more - just on something you’re either more comfortable with or just so weird your brain doesn’t register it as blogging. That’s what “uncorking the juices” means to me. Yes, you’re probably calling me a nut at the moment, but I can’t blame you […]