Regardless of my decision to broaden the topical focus of TechTraction, Friday Finds and articles about blogging won’t disappear from my blog. That being said, I came across a great post at O’Bannon’s Leap where the author expresses his personal thoughts on WordPress theme design. I enjoyed the post because I thought it was […]

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There is no shortage of advice on how to succeed with your blog. I’ve written a couple of posts suggesting that consistent posting and starting slow are key elements for success. Of course, I believe I have violated my own advice (but that’s for another day). What I’m wondering now is whether a topical […]

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Do-Follow the popular movement that disables the default WordPress “nofollow” setting for comments does attract comment spam. I know, I’ve blogged about this before but I have to get up on my soap-box one time with a little new information.
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Amazon is releasing a new electronic book reader: the Amazon Kindle. Similar to the Sony Portable Reader (which I own) the Kindle offers the same low battery consumption, very sharp black on semi-white background and a host of other features similar to the Sony Portable Reader. Matter of fact, under the covers I […]

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The Internet has a wealth of technical information for the self-taught learners. If you can read, comprehend, and apply the vast amounts of information freely available, you can become proficient in nearly any technology you choose. Unfortunately, not everything out there is well written and not everyone excels in the self-taught learning style needed […]

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One of the network morning shows (can’t remember which one) recently did a segment about making money online in which they presented a sure fire way to succeed:

Sign up for a free blog
Create good interesting content
Sign up for Google Adsense
Sit back and watch the money come rolling in

If it were only that simple.
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Weblog Tools Collection posted an article warning people to avoid blog themes from Blogstheme.com. Apparently the site takes themes developed by other designers, modifies the footer to suit their own promotional and advertising needs, and makes them available for free download. The moral of the story — if you haven’t learned to build your […]

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I’ve doing a couple different web projects lately and have been leveraging the Apache .htaccess file to control access to various parts of my web projects. I’m very comfortable with this Apache feature but understand that this file can be a bit daunting to someone just starting out. I don’t plan to write a post […]

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