http://www.blogging4novice.com tips for beginner like you and me Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:17:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Woke up this morning and saw that WordPress 2.7 stable release is available for download. I didn't follow up during the development stage. Just by looking at the video below, one word in conclusion - SEXY! It's beautiful, fast and flexible! The best thing is - version 2.7 allows you to ... http://www.blogging4novice.com/wordpress/wordpress-27-coltrane/ It's only 18 days before Christmas. Are you in the Christmas mood already? The streets is full of Christmas decoration. You can also setup the Christmas atmosphere in your blog! This is a very simple plugin for all WordPress blogs! Unlike the traditional Javascript snowflake , all you need to do ... http://www.blogging4novice.com/customize/let-it-snow/ A lot of people think that starting a blog can earn money easily and almost immediately. This is a wrong mindset. Earning money through blogs is not as easy as it seems. A lot of studies, consideration as well as effort is needed before you can successfully make ... http://www.blogging4novice.com/online-making-money/monetizing-your-blog-when/ It seems that my schedule is a bit tight lately. My last update was on the 5th. I should have spent a little more time on weekends to do some scheduled posts. Have you notice some changes made to Blogging For Novice? All these changes were made after I received a ... http://www.blogging4novice.com/blog-updates/blog-reviewed/ Have you heard about 9rules? It's a blog community which contains quality blogs. Bet it controls the quality better than other blog communities like MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog. The admins of 9rules will manually review blogs and approve blogs to be listed in the 9rules community. Nice slogan, eh? However, 9rules do ... http://www.blogging4novice.com/seo/9rules-big-day/ I was in the middle of writing a new post for Blogging For Novice, but I suddenly saved and hold that post as I think there's a breaking news with higher priority. As the post title suggested, yes, BlogRush is shutting down. (Thanks Lax for the information) I'm a BlogRush user. ... http://www.blogging4novice.com/seo/blogrush-is-shutting-down/ Earlier, we have discussed the use of microblogging like Twitter. I used to manually post a link to Twitter to promote some of my very own blog post. There's some work need to be done like copy and paste the post URL, type in a short description or just the ... http://www.blogging4novice.com/uncategorized/auto-posting-blog-updates-in-twitter/ There are other similar services like FeedBurner, but I recommend FeedBurner as it's the only feed customizing service I use. What is FeedBurner? In short, it's a mean to publish your online (blog) contents, so that your readers can subscribe to your feed and read your site updates via the ... http://www.blogging4novice.com/tips/feedburner-let-your-readers-subscribe/ Are you familiar with the term "OpenID"? I strongly encourage every blogger and blog reader to sign up for a FREE OpenID. Once you have your own OpenID, it will become a digital identity of yours in hundreds and thousands of websites. (provided they support OpenID) The most common place that ... http://www.blogging4novice.com/tips/get-openid-as-your-single-digital-identity/ Do you know Twitter can be a useful tool to help promote your blog (or online business / products)? Twitter is part of Micro-blogging. You can post updates of your blog via Twitter, and also include the Twitter widget to your blog to show your updates. What is Micro-blogging? Micro-blogging is a ... http://www.blogging4novice.com/seo/using-twitter-to-promote-your-blog/