March 24th, 2010

If you’re new to FeedBurner you should check it out! All blogs come with a special file called RSS or most commonly expanded as “Really Simple Syndication”. It is a web based feed used to publish blog entries, news headlines etc in a standardized format. In other words every time you write and publish a new blog post on your blog, it updates your RSS feed with the latest blog entry. Your blog visitors can then choose to subscribe to your feed with their web browser or email application such as Gmail or even specialized RSS Reader software such as Google Reader. After that every time you publish something on your blog they’ll receive a notification that there’s something new on your blog, without having to go to your blog every now and then wondering if it was updated.

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March 3rd, 2010

One of the selling points for individual bloggers to go with WordPress over any other blog platform is WordPress’s community. The community that contributes to WordPress in many different ways: some help out in forums, others write plugins, and many design themes (also called blog designs). In this post I will talk about WordPress themes. The most obvious and popular place to go is WordPress site itself, where you can find a little over 1,100 themes. All of the themes listed on WordPress site are free, and come with a screen shot and a live preview.

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