Twitter can easily be embedded into almost any site including Wordpress blogs, Typepad, Moveable Type and any site allowing for liberal handcoded html or flash (ie for MySpace). For those of you don’t know, Twitter is a “microblogging” service; it accepts only small 140 character posts for quick dispersement of information. You can [...]

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What is a microblog? At the time of posting this, I have an experimental microblog on my site powered by Twitter (I have the username Sketchee). Microblogs are just short posts and updates limited to a very very small number of characters. You can text a quick thought right [...]

Being a graphic designer can be a pretty pricey thing. We like to have powerful computers and expensive enterprise software. I’m looking at you Adobe Create Suite …. There are alternatives that aim to meet the needs of our profession and products. Graphic design is an art and software is just a [...]

In optimizing this blog, it turned out that there are all these great features you can add to your existing Wordpress site that can make the experience better for you and your users. You can add your favorite aspects of larger sites without much programming experience. Here are some of the ones that [...]

Everyone wants to present their content with a great design. Wordpress makes it easy to update content and make it look great. It takes as much or as little effort as you want to put into it. Try one or more of these tips and see what happens!
Don’t forget!
You will have [...]

I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 without a problem and in minutes. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s the software that makes updating this site a breeze. My favorite of its new features is its plugin upgrade feature. It alerts the user to upgrades and updates it with a click of a button. [...]

Wordpress has posted a sneak Peak of 2.5. It looks pretty cool including a new customizable dashboard and streamlined navigation. It’s all backend stuff for this site that no one really cares about except those of us who use it for blogging and content management. I recommend Wordpress after trying many of the competitors, including [...]

I lost faith in Six Apart a long while back. Now with the sale of Livejournal and its conversion into a commercial entity, it seels like we’re seeing a repeat of what happened to Movable Type. I do have a LJ apart from this site. Hope the site goes through the transition without damage on [...]

You may remember that I used to post from my phone with nakama.ca until that service went offline. I just found out that Wordpress has a plug in to do just that called Postie. So I’m posting this from my phone now! I can do pictures and Quicktime video. Great.
[If I can keep doing [...]

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