Using magazine-style WordPress themes is the new trend in the blogging community. These themes enhances the CMS capability of WordPress.
Why is it better to choose a magazine- or newspaper-style theme?
1. It’s “pro-looking”. One of the ways to drive traffic and persuade readers is making your layout professional. Because these themes can be taking a lot of knowledge about coding, most of them are designed by professional designers.
2. You can maximize the space on your blog. You have a lot of space for advertising and other widgets.
3. It is best for multimedia. Magazine-style themes are best for video blogging and podcasting.
4. You can have featured posts highlighting a certain notable post.
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Mozilla has released the new and improved Firefox 3 on its beta version. How will Firefox 3 improve on things?
- Performance improvements, including over 300 memory leak fixes, perennial problems with Firefox since the beginning and an issue that plagues it badly today
- Firefox 3 does seem quite a bit speedier than version 2.
- With its intuitive search, users can auto-scour their surfing and browsing history and bookmarks for visited URLs and even page titles, making it easier to find “lost” pages as you type.
- Bookmarking is easier to do (just one click) and organization of bookmarks is also improved.
- Security improvements
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My domain and other sites, has been hosted since its birth in the blogosphere by Ejam Hosting through its post-to-host program for FREE.
I have been satisfied with their hosting because I am getting the features of a paid host for FREE and so far, Ejam has satisfied my qualifications for a free host. Unfortunately (or fortunately), since this blog has been widely visited these past days, I have to upgrade my bandwidth limit and storage capacity.
Although I was satisfied with the hosting, my fear of losing my website was still there. Because it’s a free hosting, I was afraid of instability in the future. I’ve experienced this dilemma with my previous free hosts. AhPlace, my first host, for example, has been one of the most-trusted free hosts but due to hacker attacks, click frauds, spammers, and several other instabilities, it has to close down losing all the data of its hosted members. I still highly recommend Ejam, though.
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Ever wanted a WordPress theme but you have only Blogger as your platform? JackBook.com has a solution for you.
When you are using WordPress as your blogging platform, you will not worry about the availability of the themes you could use because there are a lot of designs available, you’ll have to search for it. A dilemma you have when you are using Blogger, not for those who knows how to design their website, though. If you try to search for Blogger templates, you will be given the same template collection, these are usually from Blogcrowds, Finalsense, etc. You can only wish that those beautiful WordPress theme be converted to Blogger template. But that was before.
I was searching for Blogger Beta (XML) templates that will fit my blogs in Blogger, when I stumbled upon the site of Jack Book. The tagline caught my attention, which says:
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Now that sponsored themes are officially out from the WordPress Theme Viewer which is considered as the largest WP themes repository, advertisers (sponsoring links) and WP theme designers are finding alternative ways to promote their links and themes, respectively.
1. Blogging Themes. They describe their site as “a distributor of blog theme-templates. All of our themes are provided free of charge for your enjoyment.” This site allows uploading your own theme just like the WordPress Theme Viewer. Currently, themes available are only for WordPress.
2. Themes Base is a large repository for themes and templates for several CMS including WordPress, Mambo, Joomla and others. Some of the themes which were uploaded at the WordPress Theme Viewer can also be found at Themes Base.
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For several days, this blog was off line; all because of my carelessness. I tried to upgrade my WordPress installation to 2.2.1 through Fantastico, without trying it first with my test blog. The upgrade ruined everything. The pages suddenly were not accessible. I was desperately looking for ways to make this blog work again but I always failed. Fortunately, through exploring my cPanel and using several articles and help topics available on the web, I was able to find the solution to my problem. But of course, I had some lessons learned, I want to share so you can also avoid careless mistakes:
1. Never use Fantastico in upgrading your WordPress installation. Chances are, there might be bugs or changes in the server you might be unaware of that may cause problems in the upgrade process. A manual upgrade is highly recommended.
Although Fantastico is the most convenient way to upgrade your installation through its one-click install feature, you are not assured that the installed version is working properly. To avoid this, you can create a test blog to work all your changes before applying them to your blog.
3. Do not forget to back up your currently working database before upgrading. I am re-emphasizing it because it seems that many users forget this very important step. I take myself as a very good example.
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