WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

Blogs by its nature are INFORMAL online information medium and way too often don’t pay appropriate level of attention to credibility and trustworthiness and yet – we should! Being a webmaster I always used to put establishing trustworthiness at the top of my list of key tasks to be completed on launch. What happened you might ask?

While I have followed some of the basics even with my blog – the core fact that blog is less formal always managed to interfere and perhaps even made me ignore what I know has to be done. This post is designed to be as much of a guideline to myself as a form of benchmark you can use to determine just how trustworthy your blog is.

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This is more of an internal note then anything else and my quick apologies to anyone who has a different experience while accessing my blog. This morning I started and now just about completed move of this blog to my hostgator account.

I got to so fed up with increasingly poor support and stability from Site5 hosting aver the period of last 2-3 month that I’m moving everything off of their servers. I have also removed this hosting from the list of my recommendations. Don’t take me wrong - they USED TO have one of the best options available and what you get for your money is probably still the best but their support is gone to sh*t.

So there you have it - an explanation on why you might have seen a few glitches this morning …

Every once in a while I run into a cool tool that attracts my attention and draws me into further investigation. Quite distracting but stats and performance analysis is one of  my minus and always have been  as long as I’ve been building websites. My justification always been simple - If I know what effort contributes more to success, I can spend more time on it and disregard tasks that give me less return.

A little while ago I have posted an article “Webmaster Tools Every Blogger Need To Know About” , where I listed some of the most useful tools in my opinion to perform tracking and get general overview. We are not talking detailed analytics here but an Great Overview of results. And Website Grader is another tool that should have made the list but I simply didn’t know about it until quite recently.

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Web design doesn’t have to be hard and when using right tools it becomes quite simple. While they will not replace the need to do you work - they help you to evaluate your results, confirm that your efforts pays off and provide you with analytical data that is both complete and easy to understand.

I want to share with you a set of tools I personally use and while many of them duplicate some of the results, each and everyone has its own uniqueness that makes it worth using. So here they are in no particular order …

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Introduction of native tags system in [tag-tec]WordPress 2.3[/tag-tec] generated a storm of questions from many bloggers. In fact this is one of the most useful features outside of faster java processing that made me upgrade to new version.

This new feature helps every blogger to properly structure the blog for success and make content more accessible and searchable. But that is assuming you have a clear understanding on HOW you need to build your blog from ground up and possibly redesign it armed with proper knowledge.

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Since the release of my Web 2.0 Wealth System, which uses very same customized theme implemented on this blog I noticed that many people love the color combination as much as I do

Even though I have provided a complete video tutorial on how to change the colors for the blog and even provided a few already made color combinations, many decided to stick with default, so I just decided to change a few things around on this blog …

I have lightened up the background and changed header color as well as couple other things that I meant to implement for a while but never got around to it …

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Seems like blog redesign is a “hip thing” these days … Problogger.net and JohnChow.com change their look drastically and Yaro Starak talk about future changes to his blog in last video post.

Am I the only one seeing a very obvious trend in these redesigns? Is my background of a webmaster clouds my judgment or am I spotting something that simply isn’t there. Well, let me point out few things and you be the judge …

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