WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

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This post brought to you by the letter “D” and the number “7″. D is for Dan who’s an almost thirty web developer and blogger hailing from the Great North and 7 for the number of paragraphs you will be subjected you to.

Let’s face it… all the stuff you heard about setting up your own website being difficult was not true. Most blog owners are not tech-savvy people and everyone including your grandmother has a website now. My websites have evolved over time and transitioned through various blogging platforms giving me a taste of what options everyone has when they choose to put up a site. One of the things I’ve learned is that while it’s nice to have all the newest and coolest widgets, plugins and advertisements on your website you have to keep in mind that the more fancy things you add the more that has to load for every viewer who comes to visit. The key thing to having a website is to keep it running smoothly and provide readers with a pleasant experience.

For every widget that you add to your website you are adding one more call to an external website every time your page loads. You must also remember that if one of these external websites is experiencing problems it will directly affect the loading time of your own website. A perfect example of this would be any blogger who uses a twitter plugin to display their tweets or whatever they’re called (I do not use twitter). I do know however that the twitter website experiences above average downtime.

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Comotovate is a brand new online beta website that has been designed to bring together like minded people to help motivate each other. The platform has been launched in Australia but is available to the world. I like the idea of being able to connect with like minded others and share the journey to the top together, whatever your common goals might be.

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Now here is a cool tool that will delight photo and space lovers alike. Tag Galaxy is a new German based tagging site that lets you search the world with tags of your choice. To start off you type a name into the tag field. For this example I used the name “money”.

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This post was written by Monika Mundell

It’s funny, here I am raving about how good my host is and then things suddenly go wrong. A few days ago I instructed my hosting provider to upgrade my server to a reseller account. I wanted a more stable environment and more bandwidth, as I’m heavily into niche marketing right now.

All was fine until now. Suddenly my last two posts are gone and so are the latest comments on my blog. As if they never even been there.

The purpose of this post is to show you how important it is to make regular blog backups. To do this I use the WordPress Database Backup Plugin. It works a treat and does the job every time.

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Man time is flying… seems like just yesterday Mert Erkal has released his first issue of the Bloghology that highlights the real bloggers, people just like you and me and allows us to have a sneak pick at what makes people to blog. A great Free Report I highly recommend you have a look at.

Well, second edition of Bloghology was released a few days ago and I managed to get into that one and had an opportunity to share my thoughts…

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I use gmail to aggregate emails from ALL my email accounts for a several different reasons:

• One login location to access all my emails
• Over 6Gb of storage space, never need to worry about space
• Custom filters allow me to move incoming emails into separate labels to make processing simpler

And when I attempted to login this morning I was presented with New Cool Feature - Send email dated in past!

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After playing around with WordPress 2.5 all this weekend and determining for myself that I will have to wait to upgrade due to some compatabilities issues with plugins, I have decided to post about something that works !

I have discovered and played around with a new extension for Firefox that actually makes posting to a blog NOT only fun but very simplified and enhanced - Zemanta!

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