By Maliki on August 11, 2008
Hey! I’ve told you before, that I’m gonna make my own WordPress theme.. yes, I’m serious about that. After take a look at codex.wordpress.org, I found that they have nice documented of sources for theme development.
There are many resources listed on where to learn about HTML/XHTML, PHP and CSS. But, what most important thing they didn’t mentioned there are the tools to get start with. So, while studying these coding things, I’ve prepared myself the tools to use in making my theme. Here they are, Continue reading “WordPress Theme Development – Part 1″
Posted in Themes | Tagged gimp, inkscape, tools, WordPress Theme, xampp |
By Maliki on August 9, 2008
Olympic Beijing 2008 Logo
Olympic Games XXIX officialy open on Friday, August 8, 2008 (08.08.08) started at 8:00 p.m in Beijing China. 91,000 people watched the opening ceremony at eye-catching National Stadium, also known as ‘Bird’s Nest’ stadium. Expected 4 billion audience worldwide watched the ceremony through television broadcast.
Other than Beijing, this summer games also will be held in co-host city, Qingdao, Hong Kong, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenyang and Qinhuangdao until August 24, 2008.
Olympic Beijing 2008 Opening Ceremony
Posted in Blogosphere | Tagged Beijing 2008, olympic |
By Maliki on August 4, 2008
It’s time to move on… I had enough testing and using other peoples WordPress theme for my own blogs. Of course, there are many great & creative themes on the net available and ready to use for any types of WordPress blogs. Myself also had downloaded, tested and used many of them. Some of the best themes are Ikarus from Braydon at wpthemespress.com, Options from Justin Tadlock at justintadlock.com and of course this blog’s current theme, Amazing Grace form Vladimir Prelovac at prelovac.com. Continue reading “Develop My Own WordPress Theme”
Posted in Themes | Tagged WordPress Theme |
By Maliki on July 22, 2008
Recently I’ve messing-up myself with Linux operating system (OS)… to be exact, it’s Ubuntu. Yeah, I can’t stop myself to test and feeling this great OS. It’s long time enough for me and most of us using Microsoft’s OSes (Windows family)… I didn’t know about your experience, but myself was used it since it released of Windows 3.1 (I’m really wonder was there any Windows 1 or Windows 2 ???). Currently I’m still using Windows XP version (the most successfull OS as claimed by Microsoft and its fan). Eventhough there is Windows Vista, the latest from Microsoft which looks more atractive than XP, but it still can’t beat XP. Continue reading “Installing Ubuntu”
Posted in Ubuntu | Tagged Linux, Operating system, OS, Ubuntu, Windows XP |
By Maliki on July 16, 2008
WordPress version 2.6 has been released on 14/July/2008, almost a month ahead of schedule. It’s available for download at WordPress.org. This version, codename “Tyner” is promising to make WordPress more powerful CMS. One of notable new feature is you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web. And of course there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in previous version 2.5.
Here you can see a brief video for this WorPress version 2.6.
Posted in WordPress | Tagged WordPress |
By Maliki on June 25, 2008
What you shouldn’t do when blogging to keep interest of your blog readership? Ben Cook from Bloggingexperiment.com has list down 10 mistakes bloggers should avoid. This is great article each blogger should read and implement it on their blog in order to keep the blog ‘alive’ and to grow the readers. Here are the 10 mistakes,
- Excessive Ads.
- Lack of Interaction.
- Trolls.
- Fights.
- Playing Follow the Leader.
- Under Posting.
- Over Posting.
- Violating Privacy.
- Slow Site
- Over promising and under delivering.
For the details, please visit http://bloggingexperiment.com/archives/10-mistakes-kill-blog.php
If your blog already gets thousands hits everyday like Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger or Seth’s Blog, some of the ‘mistakes’ might not effect the popularity or rank-down the blog ranking. But, if you are newbies or still ‘learning’ like me, we should take note the list.
Happy Blogging!
Posted in BlogTips | Tagged blog, blogging |
By Maliki on June 4, 2008
Which is the best blog platform?
Is it Blogger.com? WordPress.com? WordPress.org? Movable Type? Textpattern? b2evolution?.. etc. And if you familiar with opensource contents management system (CMS), you might considering Joomla, Drupal.. etc as a blog platform as well.
For me, definitely I choose WordPress.org (I mean the ‘hosted on own domain’ one) is the best blog platform. Why I choose WordPress? It simply because of…
1. It is clean & simple coded opensource software.
2. Being an opensource, it is free but priceless.
3. Super easy to install/setup.
4. User friendly and safe… It will suit everybody needs, either you just want to start a blog today or you are seasoned pro blogger.
5. It have thousands of free themes & plugins to customize your blog’s looks & functions.
6. Simply the chosen blog platform by well known pro bloggers like Darren Rowse, Yaro Starak, Justin Tadlock, John Chow, Gobala Krishnan…etc. And don’t forget to mention giant company like Play Station, The New York Times, Ebay…etc, who choose WordPress as their blog platform.
7. Hundreds of thousands communities members to supports either for sourcecode developments or creating themes & plugins.
8. Almost all webhosting support it.
9. Over 400% increasing of users… the number speaks itself..
10. The list goes on…
You not agree? Hey! this is my thought..my choice (actually thousands of other’s choice also). If you not agree WordPress is the best blog platform, what is your choice?
Posted in Blogosphere | Tagged blog, blog platform |
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