WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

This is a very short post (been a bit sick last few days) and the main reason behind it is to give you a free tool I have just created - WordPress Web 2.0 Guide Toolbar. It designed to solve one BIG problem - convenient access to all relevant information to help you build, maintain, promote and earn from your blog.

I have realized that my collection of Personal Bookmarks, tutorials and howto guides can be a great resource for many other bloggers and created toolbar to share it. While it is still in process of been built - it will contain a one click access to what I personally use on daily bases and something that helps me in daily blogging.

With abundant choice of freely available themes for WordPress every blogger gets tempted to test a new look every once in while. I know I get the urge often enough so I decided to discuss the subject of how you can safely test new look and see if the theme you liked will fit your blog vision.

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This weekend I had to answer some questions for an interview by Carlo Selorio and one of them made me think. Not that it was unusual but it was operating outside of the realm of conscious decisions and logical choices…

“What inspires you?”

… or something to that effect. As a blogger sometimes I find inspirations in most unusual locations and today I want to run a parallel inspired by my family’s dining out experience this weekend. One question got stuck in my mind …

Is My Blog Ready For “Fine Dining” Or Will It Become “Fast Food Joint”

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In getting my daily doze of news around [tag-tec]blogosphere[/tag-tec] I have run more then once into posts that discuss one simple subject - Decluttering Your Blog. And while I agree with many statements I have certain reservation when it comes to the subject and more think about balance then purity.

And with many visible bloggers talking about it somehow I feel it might begin to spread like an infection and reduce certain social aspects of the blogs …

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I have just signed up this morning for a QuickWebCreations service and was amazed at the service is provides at an extremely low price. Being a fairly decent with Photoshop I still spend considerable amount of time when I need to work with images, especially anything related to Web 2.0.

Time it takes to figure out latest trends and how to get image to correspond to it is one of the most consuming tasks for me and if you are like me I suggest you look at what I was able to create in a spam of 2 minutes using this tool:

Like what you see? Then watch the video where I show exactly how I did it …

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Blogging is all about displaying your personality and nothing say it as loud as a great looking theme. In this post I want to cover what in my personal opinion are 10 best web 2.0 WordPress themes.

While this is just my personal opinion I’m guided by several factors: look and feel of the theme, quality of coding and support of the theme by the author (theme needs to be compatible with latest versions of the blog core) …

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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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