13 posts tagged as "blogging"

Outsourcing your Blog engine’s functionality

[ NOTE: I wrote this blog post over 2 years ago and recently found it in my Windows Live Writer drafts. I must have saved it to come back later and do some editing but forgot about it. It seems to be fairly up to date so I’m hitting the Publish…

Six steps to getting a blog author’s attention when asking for help

I get a couple questions a week through my blog’s comments or contact page similar to this: “I love the Flickr widget, but how can I get it to [ … do something custom… ] ?” I try to answer as many questions as possible but between work and family…

I have given myself another home page facelift

I have given myself another home page facelift

It was a much needed facelift.  I liked the functionality of my previous blog home page and I liked the way it was implemented (mostly using JQuery plugins), but the design felt too cluttered and was just … well… ugly. Mostly it felt like too much of…

My blog has a new home

I finally took the plunge and moved my blog ( http://danhounshell.com ) to Graffiti. No need to update links to RSS feeds, all that should be handled seamlessly by Feedburner. This blog was born in 2004 on Scott Watermasysk’s .Text platform. In 200…

Your Blog = Your Photo Goes Here

Your Blog = Your Photo Goes Here

I know I’m joining this tirade party late. Joe Wirtley has preached it before (in fact almost exactly a year ago) and I know I’ve heard others proclaim the same. I’m a convert after bumping into a ton of people at CodeMash who I think that I know…

Please stop posting excerpts in your RSS feed!

I’m not speaking to anyone in particular with the above title, just the blogging world in general. I pruned a few RSS feeds from my reader today (Newsgator Outlook Edition in case you’re keeping count) and afterward I realized that each of the three…

My Blogging Code of Conduct

This is not another post linking to a bunch of A-list bloggers’ opinions on Tim O’Reilly’s suggested Blogger Code of Conduct, though Mike Arrington of TechCrunch has an opinion that I agree with for the most part. Here is my code of conduct: It’s my…

Add an Advertising Disclaimer to your site

Over on my TheBestWebStuff blog I recently added an Advertising Disclaimer to the main navigation of the site. I felt that since I had recently added RSS ads, banner ads, text ads, and I would soon be venturing into paid reviews as part of my…

Rick Segal Go Code Something

I’m an avid reader of Rick Segal’s blog, The Post Money Value . I’m don’t read any other start-up blogs or VC blogs, but I like Rick’s writing style and point of view. Because of his Microsoft background and VC interest in technology and…

Justice Gray on Chrome Domes

The always controversial and sometimes correct ( see his 10 keys to happiness ), Justice Gray, reveals something new : ” bald people cannot be trusted .  … bald people wander the earth with one purpose and one purpose only - to kill you and steal…