Articles for May 2007

PC Show 2007 Singapore

From this morning (31 May 2007) to Sunday night (3 June 2007), the PC show is on at Suntec City, Singapore, so people looking out for the newest gadgets can hop on down grab the offers! Well… its barely been three months since the last IT Show, and I’m don’t feel I’m in need [...]

Finally back in town and in front of my computer!

Phew! Its been 9 days since I last posted! Seriously, I don’t remember the “break” being that long! Well, I was overseas in Malaysia for most of the time, and then after I was back in Singapore I was swamped with all the emails from everywhere, and then I am down (I [...]

WordPress upgrade almost broke my blog!

Phew! I felt I learnt a lesson today… to follow instructions! I was upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.2, and halfway along my installation process, along came an unfriendly error message that went something like this! Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 46080 bytes) The main page of the blog was still up running, [...]

WordPress Theme and Plugin developers, please document your code!

Over the past few days (actually it was on and off for the past few weeks!), I was spending a lot of time trying to optimize one of the popular themes provided in the WordPress themes directory. One of my clients wanted to have that look and feel of the theme… but the underlying [...]

WordPress 2.2 is out!

Yes… WordPress 2.2 is out with widgets integrated in the core code - no longer as plugins. Need to spend time upgrading all installations now. Geeez.

Relationships are built upon conversations

Yesterday, I was on my way to my friend’s place so I could help him with his company website - he wanted to incorporate a blog on his website to get started with a online marketing. As I boarded the bus, I was very warmly greeted by the bus driver. He said (in [...]

Web Usability 101: Always design with Web-Safe Fonts

One of the most common factors to consider in web design is the use of fonts - and the reason behind that is because if you design your page is some funny font you have on your computer, chances are that your readers do not have that font installed in their computer, and they will [...]

Blog marketing and the canonical domain issue

As some of you may already know, search engines treat “www” (e.g. http://www.blogopreneur.com) and “non-www” (e.g. http://blogopreneur.com) domains as totally different domains, until Google allowed you to set a preferred domain to use in your the Google Webmaster Center. So it is important to resolve this canonical domain issue if you want to market your blog, [...]

Blog design - if you are in this list, then you are out of your readers favourites!

Daily Blog Tips has a list of 43 web design mistakes that is a must read for anybody who wants your website to be visited and enjoyed by other readers. 1. The user must know what the site is about in seconds 2. Make the content scannable 3. Do not use fancy fonts that are unreadable 4. Do not [...]

5 great reasons to use WordPress sidebar widgets

Ah… widgets! These teeny weeny yet extremely powerful pieces of code that allow you to practically manage your blog easier than if you were playing scrabble - simply lift piece off your palette and drop them on the desired position on your sidebars, and everything else just flows in place. Click “save changes”, and [...]
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