Have you heard of guest blogging? If not, let me explain what guest blogging is all about, and then I’ll give you a bunch of reasons why it’s such a great idea. If you want to increase the number of visitors that your Wordpress blog receives, you will be interested in guest blogging.

What is guest blogging?

In short, guest blogging is where you write a great quality and interesting article for another blog owner. In return, you have a couple of links at the bottom of the article, which go back to your website. These links help increase the number of visitors to your website, in addition to establishing a relationship with fellow bloggers in your niche.

The Approach: The process starts by approaching a blogger (via a contact form, by email, etc) and asking them if they’d be interested in you writing an article for them. Often it helps to tell them the idea of the article you have in mind for them.

Important: Ensure that the host blog is related to your website, so that visitors of the host blog will be interested in reading your article. (more…)

Websites are similar to homes. Just as homes of an individual represent the outlook of the person living in, his style, his attitude along with way of living similarly websites are regarded as the outlook of a company. They represent the status and position of the respective company in the current market. There is constant race of out doing each other. The main reason to this is the exponential increase in the volume of traffic that is directed to websites.

These days’ websites are referred as online service providers for a particular query. Websites are available in numerous numbers and are based on every possible and imaginable dimension of the world. Hence people can easily get answers to their queries in minimum time. Companies are putting in their best efforts to attract customers towards it thereby diverting traffic to gain business. (more…)

Blogging at WordPress is great, you can find some amazing applications for WordPress that make it even better by giving you more ways to post. Whether you’re blogging from your desktop, browser or on the go, make sure to check out these other ways to post to your WordPress blog.

You can find some of the most popular applications for WordPress like HootSuite, ScribeFire, WordPress for iPhone and etc…

Source: http://en.support.wordpress.com/apps/

Derek Herman is a 28 year old web developer residing in Portland, Oregon. He started Valen Designs in 2006 while still in college and working as a graphic artist. He is an experienced UI designer and becoming more and more of an established backend developer with each day that passes.

He is also a web developer at Envato and he was also in charge of building out the network of websites that we all visit daily, the Tuts+ Network. He is going to share with us Using Wordpress to Build Large Scale Websites.

Source: Using Wordpress to Build Large Scale Websites with Derek Herman

WordPress 2.9 is just around the corner. Unlike WordPress 2.8, which Mark Jaquith describes as the Snow Leopard of WordPress since most of the basis of the WordPress 2.8 upgrade was complete rewrites and optimization of the infrastructure that ran WordPress instead of providing lots of new features in the same way Apple’s new OS X release is a focus on improved performance instead of features, WordPress 2.9 brings major new “bling” to the table.

By and large, this release is a plugin developers release with lots of new APIs and abstraction. However, there are significant additions for theme designers and users as well. Technosailor has written a really useful article: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9. Take a look and get ready for WordPress 2.9 in the near future!

Source: 10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.9

Video blogging is nothing new – after all, video has existed on the web long before YouTube. But video equipment is now cheaper, post production software more accessible, and online platforms on which to distribute video – such as YouTube – are easier to use than ever before. Still, only some of the many people posting videos regard themselves as video bloggers.

Even though the notion of video blogging itself isn’t new, the actual endeavor is still novel to many people. Mashable has published The Complete Guide to Video Blogging that explores concepts behind video blogging and the tools for creating and distributing that content.

Source: The Complete Guide to Video Blogging

Whilst many blogging platforms come with excellent web-based administration interfaces, a variety of desktop tools can make the experience far more enjoyable. With a useful set of applications installed, managing a blog is a far simpler and more natural experience.

AppStorm has shared The Ultimate Mac Setup for Bloggers, 60 applications for desktop blogging and tweeting, formatting images for your posts, recording screencasts, utilizing social media, communicating with other bloggers, and keeping track of statistics.

Source: The Ultimate Mac Setup for Bloggers

After the great success of our Free Social Media Icons, I have added another 10 social media icons to the pack. The new icons are AIM, Bebo, eBay, Hi5, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Windows Live, Ning, Orkut and Yahoo Messenger.

Download: Social Media Icons Pack 2.0 (.rar), Social Media Icons Pack 2.0 (.zip)

About the Icons

I have put a very big emphasis on function in these icons with the right amount of details. There is also an icon template PSD file included!

I was compelled to design these icons when through searching the web I couldn’t find a suitable set of simple, circular social media icons. What kind of age are we living in when you cannot find a good set of simple, sleek, circular social media icons? So here they are.

About the author:

Eli is an aspiring web designer from Adelaide, South Australia.

Web design is complicated. There’s a heck of a lot to learn. Typography, usability, color theory, the list goes on… ProBlogDesign has collected together 26 blog design tutorials from the web that take you through the process of designing a blog, from scratch.

If it’s time for you to learn a new style of design, working through a complete project in one of the guides below is the best way to start. These posts take you step by step so even if your Photoshop skills aren’t the best yet, you won’t be left behind!

Source: 26 Complete WordPress Blog Design Tutorials

Everyone loves to laugh. Have you imagine there are many funny things about blogging? bLaugh is a MAD Magazine for the Blogosphere. You can find lots of funny comics of the blogosphere there. Expect parodies of “A-List” bloggers all the way down to the meme of the day – no holds barred.

We have collected the following Top 25 Funniest Comic Strips About Blogging from bLaugh. Please feel free to share your favourite ones as well. Now sit back, relax and laugh please.

Shrinking Self Esteem

Vowing Wedding Favors

Good Quality Pet Blogging

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