Mal on October 5th, 2007

I’ve just installed a new widget on this blog, provided by BlogRush. You can see it in the left sidebar.
When you sign up for BlogRush (it’s free) and submit your blog details, you are provided with code for the widget to put on your page. This will display headlines from the blogs of other members [...]

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Mal on June 30th, 2007

One of the ways that I have had success in earning money from my blogs is via Google Adsense. This is a system by which, by signing up and adding a small amount of code to your blog, Google can place context sensitive advertisements wherever you wish them to appear.
By context sensitive, I mean that the [...]

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Mal on March 11th, 2007

In the earlier parts of this series we learned what a blog is, then looked at starting your first blog. This time we will actually set up that first blog using Blogger.com.
Blogger, a part of Google, is a free hosted blogging service which lets you post and manage your weblog from within your web browser. It [...]

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Mal on March 8th, 2007

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com.
It allows you to edit posts for your blogs while you are offline and publish them later.
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate [...]

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Mal on February 22nd, 2007

The other day I decided to upgrade two of my Wordpress blogs from version 2.04 and 2.05 to version 2.1, mainly because the provider of my webhosting servers was insisting. I went to the script library in cPanel and found the new version listed, along with the upgrade button. Nothing happened when I pressed it.
So, it looked [...]

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Mal on February 19th, 2007

There are a few questions you need to ask yourself when choosing a platform for your first blog:
 * Do I want a free blog, or do I want to pay for it
 * Do I want it hosted on a blog platform, or do I want to host it on my own website with my own [...]

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Mal on February 4th, 2007

Blogging is presently the most popular way for people to put content onto a website. To put it simply, a blog, short for weblog, is a website which has a simple interface whereby the owner can place content easily and quickly onto the site. No knowledge of coding or page design, no use of FTP [...]

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