WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

Your [tag-tec]blog[/tag-tec] is your way to communicate to the world. Your chance to share your knowledge, your experience and thoughts or simply express your interests. But it is crucial that this communication is two way. Your visitors have to be able to provide feedback – it is actually required to provide credibility to your [tag-tec]web 20[/tag-tec] blog.

But how do you protect yourself from all the auto-posting bots and spam bots? There are so many applications looking to exploit what was provided for people’s convenience (feedback forms) that it makes our job a lot harder. But there are easy solutions …

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Continuing with my personal saga of creating a web 2.0 website based on Wordpress I decided I need to discuss perhaps the most important part – [tag-tec]web design[/tag-tec]. Wordpress is one of the platforms that actually overwhelm you with number of choices when it comes to theme selection.

But if your goal to create a flashy web 2.0 portal using [tag-tec]Wordpress[/tag-tec] you might find yourself in a bind. The look and feel of your website is what creates first impression about you, about your site and will either make people stay on your site and read or click away instantly. And keep in mind – to present yourself as Web 2.0 portal you have to provide visitors with multitude of options to interact and contribute to content. Oh, yeah … and let’s not forget that you also wouldn’t mind to make some cash in process – would you now?

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