Posted on May 29, 2008 at 12:01 am as Monetize
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Posted on May 27, 2008 at 12:01 am as CMS
dotCMS Core is the most feature complete open source web CMS available today. Available under the GPL, you can freely download the dotCMS system and get up, running and managing web sites and web content in a matter of minutes. Unlike many other “open source” cms, dotCMS is in no way crippled. When you download the dotCMS system, you are getting all of the functions and features needed to begin creating customized, manageable and scalable web sites. This includes so called “advanced” features such as LDAP/AD integration, clustering support, online templating, Web2.0 Calendaring and the structured content engine.
If you are looking to get a head start in getting your new web sites off the ground, they offer accelerators - starter sites - that combine the power and flexibility of the dotCMS system with cutting edge information architecture, compliant HTML and pre-build functions. These accelerators are designed to be easy to customize and brand with unique graphical design.
Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.dotcms.org/
Posted on May 22, 2008 at 12:01 am as Information
This is a guest blog post by Eli from PhotoshopStar
Everyone knows that nice images/photos can brighten up a boring old blog post, even if the content is great, a picture of some sort at the top or on the side can draw the visitor’s eye in! In this article we’ll be looking at a few simple Photoshop tips for regular bloggers.
If you’ve already been using images in your articles, then maybe you’re not doing it as well as you could be. You should always remember to adjust your images in any way necessary before putting them in, particularly cropping them so that the object inside of the image is more in focus.
Example:

For cropping you should either use the crop tool or the canvas resize option (image > canvas size).
I’m not so sure about darkening images before putting them up, but it sure can be helpful brightening your images before putting them on your blog. The easiest way that people know of is using Brightness/Contrast settings (image > adjustments > brightness/contrast), which is all well and good, but sometimes you just need a little more control, so you can use the Levels (image > adjustments > levels) or Curves (image > adjustments > curves).

You can also lighten up or darken particular areas by using the Dodge and Burn tools.
Adding interesting headlines to your images can be particularly helpful, especially if your blog post has a theme (see, Star Trek Blogging by Daily Blog Tips). If you want to use a heading in a blog post image, you’ll want to be careful about the fonts, colors and sizes that you choose, it’s most helpful to keep things as simple as possible in this case. For some great font resources, be sure to check out:
Here’s an example using Myriad Pro, and a simple Drop Shadow layer style to help it stand out:

Resizing your images is in fact very important, and it depends on where your image will be going. At the top, or aligned to the left or right? Another thing you need to know is if you align your image to the left or the right, will your text stick right to the edge of it? If this is the case, you can add padding, or you can add a white strip to the side of your image (if your content area background is white).
For images that go on the top or the bottom of the article text, you should use something like 400-500 x 160 pixels or so, and these images go well with interesting text headings!
For images that you will be aligning to the left or right, you’ll want to use a smaller size such as 140 x 165 or something similar, and maybe you could even link that to a larger version of the image, if you have something important to show.
As you can imagine, resizing your images is related to the cropping, so you should crop your images first, then resize them.
Now this one can be tricky.
The only reason you should ever want to blur a complete image would be because you want to add a text heading inside of it, or something of the sort. Sometimes though, you may want to blur the background of a photo to bring the main character/object into focus. For blurring things, you can either use a filter blur (filter > blur > x) or you can use the Blur tool.
After resizing an image to a very small size (400 x 300 for example) they may need to be sharpened slightly, so to do this you can go to filter > sharpen > sharpen (or Sharpen Edges), but if the sharpening seems too strong, go to edit > fade sharpen and input 50% or so!
If your post has no particular subject, it may be a good idea to choose a random, abstract image to place into your blog post, if there’s space free and the post is a little dull without it.
To find some top-notch abstract images, you should check out the resources section at the end of the article.

Another interesting thing you can do to your photos is change the color of them, saturate them more-so, or remove the color altogether. For simple color settings, you can go to image > adjustments > hue/saturation, or if you want a little more control, try one of the other color adjusting tools such as Selective Color, Channel Mixer, or Gradient Maps.
For desaturating your photos, I highly recommend using a gradient map with a black and white gradient, rather than desaturating using hue/saturation.

Here is a short list of resources that you may find useful.
Thanks for reading everyone, I hope you enjoyed the article.
Visit Eli’s Photoshop tutorial blog, PhotoshopStar
Posted on May 19, 2008 at 12:01 am as Information
Whenever you opt for a new theme, you’re going to have to do a fair amount of customization to get everything just right for your site. By the time you get to your third or fourth theme, you’ll probably begin to grow a little weary of reinventing the wheel with each new design.
Fortunately, savvy users like you can solve this problem by creating a user-defined functions file that will work with any WordPress theme. Pearsonified has shared How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog by placing all of your common, customized design elements within functions that reside in a separate, non-theme file. This serves a twofold purpose:
First, because your common design tweaks are isolated in a non-theme file, you won’t risk overwriting them whenever you change or upgrade your theme.
Second, using a separate functions file creates a much more organized and less intimidating environment for customizing your theme. You can add and subtract HTML from your user-defined functions file without fear of “breaking” your theme, simply because you aren’t trying to edit the theme files directly.
Source: How You Can Use WordPress Functions to Run a Smarter Blog
Posted on May 15, 2008 at 12:01 am as Plugin
Comment Info Tip is a WordPress plugin that provides you and your commenter’s a bit of information on their posting stats. When you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about that given commenter. The tip will display 1 of 4 results:
Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.search-this.com/2008/05/05/wordpress-plugin-comment-info-tip/
Posted on May 13, 2008 at 12:01 am as Theme
Video blogging is getting more and more popular recently. Blogger can communicate with readers not only by text now. Quommunication Video is another high quality video premium wordpress theme which lets you post and share your videos in a central place with style.
Once Video is added to your WordPress you only have to find or upload any video you like, go to it’s page and search the embed function and copy the code in WordPress to the body of your new post. To add some description, simply write it below the embedded video. Your visitors can watch and comment your videos just the way you want. It also offers an advanced AJAX technology to preview and even post your comments while watching a video.
Pricing: 1 License($95), 5 License($175), Developers ($295)
Requirements: -
Posted on May 9, 2008 at 12:01 am as Plugin
Skribit provides bloggers with the ability to receive real-time, user-generated suggestions directly from their readers via an east-to-install blog application. Not only does Skribit help bloggers understand their readers, but Skribit also helps facilitate an interactive reader-writer blogging community. Skribit is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs. Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear.
Bloggers install the Skribit application into their blogs in four easy steps. Once the application has been installed, your readers can either login to Skribit or anonymously submit questions and suggestions to you. They can even vote on their own suggestions encouraging you to write about what interests them most. Currently, Skribit is under private beta at the moment. But, you can still register for an account, and they will notify you via email as soon as we open up Skribit to the public.
Pricing: Free
Source: http://skribit.com/
Posted on May 6, 2008 at 12:01 am as Theme
VideoFlick is a video gallery style WordPress theme including a fully integrated and customized version of “mediabox” developed by Iaian7. VideoFlick features a galley style layout with a primarily thumbnail based navigation scheme. Simply click a thumbnail and the video of your choice is launched in a full screen “ajax” window. Currently, VideoFlick supports several video formats including Flickr Video, Google, MetaCafe, MySpace, Revver, YouTube, Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo, DailyMotion, FLV Video, QuickTime and Windows Media Video.
The VideoFlick package includes four different layout and color styles which allows you to fully customize the look and feel of your video gallery. These styles include portrait and landscape thumbnail layouts, as well as dark and light color schemes. Simply choose the style you wish to use from the design menu and you are good to go.
Pricing: (Single) $25.00, (Developer’s License) $75.00
Requirements: -
Posted on May 4, 2008 at 12:01 am as Information
Blogs are a very popular outlet for Internet marketing? they are easy to start up and easy to keep up, they’re also a free medium to advertise products and ideas with content. Blogs are popular because readers get to participate in the conversation about niche markets and aren’t as formal as sales pages and website pages. Once you have a blog up and running, you need to promote it to get traffic to your blog? we won’t go into what you should have in your blog (compelling, interesting and informative articles/copy that engages the reader and creates a dialogue), but we will look at the top 10 ways to promote your blog and get the traffic that you need.
Sites such as Digg and Delicious grab traffic and have it head right for your blog. These are quite easy to use (so long as you don’t vote for yourself)? create a free account, write a description, add tags and the address to your blog, and voila! - With compelling headlines and descriptions, you can quickly gain traffic to your blog.
Visiting forums in your niche market is nearly as old as the Internet itself ?but this works and it’s free. Participate in the forums with relevant (and compelling) information that leads to what your blog is all about. Having a great signature line with a link to your blog is the key.
Writing and offering free eBooks will also bring traffic to your website. Your eBook should be compelling, well written and chock full of useful information (otherwise, no one will visit your blog, thinking you’re nothing real to say anyway).
Look at MSN, Yahoo and Google groups and find some that are relevant to your niche. Don’t spam them ? enjoy the conversation and ease into it.
Create a video (or hire someone to do it) then submit it to one of the many popular video sites (such as YouTube) and find more traffic being directed to your site. It’s not a secret that video sites are incredibly popular and that this popularity is only growing each and every day ?so get in on the action, create a compelling video and get more traffic to your blog.
Updating your blog regularly is very important. You have to continue updating with relevant information that is interesting and leads to more information yet to come. This will bring people back to your blog time and time again.
This is very simple ?submit your blog to blog directories for backlinks and new potential readers. Although most blog directories will require a link back from your blog, it may not have to be permanent. Here are a few of the most popular blog directories you should submit to:
RSS feeds are also incredibly popular and this allows your loyal readers to know when you’re updated your blog (which should be often and regularly). It’s quite easy to RSS your blog and this allows your readers to know when you’re posted more information that they want to read.
Don’t forget, now that you’re syndicated your blog, to submit to RSS directories as well.
The most importnat, SEOing your blog will lead to receiving completely free traffic from search engines. The main things you need to do is make sure your markup is error-free, and you’re using headings, such as <h1>, <h2> and <h3>’s, the most important three. You should also link to your homepage with the appropriate anchor text. You should try and get as many quality backlinks as you can to help this along.
Posted on May 2, 2008 at 12:01 am as Information
With WordPress, you have pages that display the content you put on those pages. To style the content on these pages, we use different files in a WordPress theme. But which files are assigned to which pages? That’s where the Template Hierarchy comes in. Depending on what templates are available in the theme, different files will be assigned to certain pages.
“WordPress looks for template files with specific names in the current Theme’s directory and uses the first matching template file listed under the appropriate query section below.” - WordPress Codex
There’s no better way to understand the WordPress Template Hierarchy than to see it visually.