Wordpress Blogging, brilliant features.

I now think I made the right choice about choosing Wordpress over writing my own script, the amount of features that you get with Wordpress it phenomenal the best thing I think is uploading pictures to Wordpress where you can then drag and drop the picture into the text (thank god for AJAX)

And also the plugins, I have installed about 10 plugins now not all of them are enabled but there is a huge range of them allowing you to do so much more.

So anyone considering Blogging get Wordpress!

I would love to hear your thoughts on Wordpress or any other Blogging scripts out their.

AJAX Brilliant Idea, Changing The Web Before Our Very Own Eyes.

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but AJAX has taken the web by storm Google, Msn and Yahoo are all using it and its brilliant.

I don’t know if many of you out there are web developers etc, but AJAX sends and receives information between browser’s and website servers, AJAX comes from JavaScript which is like AJAX but it does not send and receive information.

So lets think about a “shoutbox” normally you wouldn’t use JavaScript because its pointless you don’t need it but put in a little bit of AJAX scripting you have a “live” ShoutBox no need to refresh because AJAX will grab the information and show it on your screen!

I can see this becoming the way forward for Website Development, JavaScript will slowly get pushed out of the way and we will have practically applications online for example Google Doc’s etc.

A Messy Blog is an Unpopular Blog.

Okay let’s face facts you search through the web say you come to a website with ads all over the place you think nah and don’t bother reading it so just click off the page.

So thinking about that you won’t get any one clicking on your adverts because no one cares about your content because it looks awful, so why not spend a little pay a professional to design your website, try and get as much information out of them as possible about designing your website and how to market it.

You can get a professional to design a layout for around $50-$100 so what’s the harm in spending a little to make a little, think from a customers point of view.

Starting Your own Weblog

As you can see weblogs or blogs have become vastly popular over the past year, so I’m going to talk to you on how to setup your own blog.

So first we need to think of a name that we are going to call out blog so for a example we are going to use ‘Typer Tappers’

Next we need to buy a domain which can also come with a hosting plan here is a link to a list of web host’s http://wordpress.org/hosting/ if your in the UK I would recommend http://4uhosting.co.uk now I will be using 4uhosting.co.uk as my example as it supports ‘CPanel’ this allows you to install word press automatically taking all the hard work out of it.

So when you’re on CPanel you cant to click “Fantastico” this is the program that will install the script for you so in that look for word press and follow the instructions.

Now you’re all setup and ready to go, so get writing your first article!

5 Web Designing Do’s and Don’ts

1. Different visited link colour rather than just having all your links the same colour it’s just annoying for visitors if you don’t have visited colours.

2. Fully flash sites big no no, if you’ve notices that flash player has only just been released on Linux so a lot of them won’t be able to see your site or some windows users still don’t have flash player so avoid flash at all costs.

3. Do not design over 800×600 this is obvious I hope I don’t really need to explain it.

4. JavaScript do not use a lot of it and don’t depend on it. You will find that your visitors may have it disabled.

5. Do not use Tables, if you’re a web designer you should already know this for your layout never use tables as it slows your users loading time down css layouts are a lot faster with a external sheet style.