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 [...]

How to start monitoring your blog statistics

In this week’s blogging tutorial, I’m going to show you how you can start to monitor your blog’s statistics using the very popular StatCounter service! First, why do you need to monitor your blog traffic statistics? If you are blogging for fun, it might not be necessary for you to monitor your stats - after all, you [...]