Free WordPress Theme:Political Politics

By David on January 31st, 2008. This post has 9 Comments »
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A Political WordPress theme for you guys! Its a 3 Column widget ready with 2 built-in Adsense spots. Valid XHTML!

Demo Political Politics | Download Political Politics
You can add your Adsense publisher numbers in the files adsanse_sidebar.php & adsanse_top.php. Open bio.php to edit your bio.

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Contest Winner for Jan 18th

By David on January 18th, 2008. This post has No Comments »
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The winner for MyBlogIt’s biweekly contest is:

You can find her blog here: Two Write Hands
The next drawing will be on February 1st, I will post more details over the weekend. To participate check out this post: MyBlogIt.net Contest.

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Moving from Fireworks to Photoshop

By David on January 16th, 2008. This post has 2 Comments »
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I have been using Fireworks for a very long time and before that it was Paintshop Pro. However for the last year I have been wanting to learn Photoshop. I had tried using it in the past but gave up because it all seemed very foreign to me.
So last weekend I decide no matter how [...]

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New WordPress Theme:Squeeze Page

By David on January 10th, 2008. This post has 4 Comments »
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I was helping a friend with the design of a squeeze page today and it inspired me.
It’s a single column, widget ready theme, with 3 column sidebar at the bottom and a page menu at the top.

Download Squeeze Page | Preview Squeeze Page
Please tell me what you think.
UPDATE
Yan from [Geeks Are Sexy] reported [...]

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Who should I write for?

By David on January 9th, 2008. This post has 1 Comment »
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Like I do often I was reading my rss feeds from some of my favorite bloggers via Bloglines. I found a post on a blog that I had just added a few days ago. In his post he asked his readers what he should be writing about.
This got my juices flowing, with a brain like [...]

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Advertising options and contest news

By David on January 9th, 2008. This post has No Comments »
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I have added some ad spots to MyBlogIt. The first is a new concept I’m trying. (New to me anyways).
It’s a text link that has only a placement fee of only $5. And your link could be there a very long time… well maybe. Here is how it works. Now using ScratchBack see right [...]

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7 ways to scare your readers away

By David on January 7th, 2008. This post has 3 Comments »
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1 Slow Site
Loads of unnecessary graphics or just a slow host will dramatically decrease your blogs readership.
2 Advertising overload
Any site that bombards the visitor with ads; popup or otherwise is just a major turn off.
3 political statements
Unless your blog is all about politics, a political or religious post can alienate your readers
4 Rambling
The blogger that [...]

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MyBlogIt, the contest…

By David on January 4th, 2008. This post has 5 Comments »
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Today I’m introducing a biweekly contest. The prizes will very from week to week, but for the most part will be PayPal cash.
How to participate:
For each of the activities you can earn 1 point. Each point puts your name in the hat.

RSS email subscription
Comment within the contest period
Be a member of MyBlogIt’s MyBlogLog community
Have MyBlogIt [...]

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Installing or upgrading a WordPress Theme

By David on January 3rd, 2008. This post has 1 Comment »
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So I got a question today: How do I install a WordPress theme?
After finding your new theme it’s very easy to install your new theme. Here is the quick guide:

Unzip your theme
Upload your theme to the themes directory
Enable your theme from your WordPress dashboard

You can use WinZip or my favorite zip utility WinRar to unzip [...]

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