Wordpress is a great platform for blogging, i thinks majority of the bloggers use wordpress. Wordpress is not only for blogs it can be used as a CMS for small businesses or for news portals. Wordpress ease of use, nice list of features and a simple and powerful administration is ideal for anybody to use it as their publishing platform.
I am developing a news portal using wordpress, i thought i will share with you what and how i am doing it, this may help some of you probably. When i started working on it i realised that there are not so many resources available in this direction and another problem is that its hard to find themes for these type of sites.
First and foremost thing is to design a front page layout, i am not so good at PHP so i completely relied on Google and Wordpress Codex. Here i will tell you step by step how to get a news site design using wordpress multiple loops function. Read the rest of this entry »
Tired of installing plugins and themes by opening FTP and uploading or you are unable to use FTP in office, then this extension is for you. OneClick Installer for Wordpress Firefox Extension makes it easy for you to upload plugins and themes in a single click without opening FTP program.
Anirudh made this extension, he made it as an extension to his plugin OneClick Install. This plugin and Firefox extension installed you just right click on the plugin from the download page, a context menu will open with oneclick install option, click that and you are done. Now activate your plugin or theme from your dashboard.
Texty is so far the easy and simple content creation tool i have seen. With texty you can create a piece of text with formatting without any programming skills.
Type in the WYSIWYG editor what text you want and press the button to create your text piece, this you can place it on your web page. You can always go back and edit the texty you created and the changes will reflect on your web page. You can also select your texty to have comments and RSS feeds.
This tool looks interesting but this is not useful for either blogs or for CMS, this may be useful for static html websites.
Nokia jumped in to social network space with a mobile centric network named mosh.
You can upload media content like images, photos, videos, audio to your profile, search for other users content. You can share, bookmark and download the cotent. more on mosh at mashable
Although the site is in private beta you can register by entering ‘ALLACCESS’ in the password field, Techcrunch noticed this. If you can’t register comment here i will send you the invitation.
This is a followup to my post 10 Beautiful Dark Wordpress Themes, since all of us won’t like dark themes and some prefer clean and light themes. Keeping this in mind i compiled 10 clean and light themes for you. Let me know how do you feel about these themes.
While we are at [tag]web 2.0[/tag], there is a lot of buzz generating about web 3.0, recently Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked to define Web 3.0 at Seoul Digital Forum by an audience member. He first joked web 2.0 is a marketing term and then went on to explain web 3.0.
The folks at Common Craft who are behind RSS in Plain English came up with a new video which explains social bookmarking for the not so techie audience.
Scrybe is a organizer application, it makes you forget all other apps for organizing. It works offline too. Thanks to Inviteshare i got a beta invitation to check scrybe, currently it is in phase3 Beat and hopefully goes public soon.
Scrybe is one of the best web apps i tried in recent times, i won’t blog much about its features but i would suggest you watch scrybe video demo, I bet you will love it and say “Wow”
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