Previously we’ve learned the new features of CSS3 and how to make rounded corners with a few simple lines of CSS code. Today I’d like to show another powerful feature – adding multiple background images to an element.

Before it could only be done by adding separate elements and dividing the images between them or using [...]

Right now there is a worm making its way around old, unpatched versions of WordPress. This particular worm, like many before it, is clever: it registers a user, uses a security bug (fixed earlier in the year) to allow evaluated code to be executed through the permalink structure, makes itself an admin, then uses JavaScript [...]

WP Auctions is a new WordPress plugin that enables you to host your own auctions allowing you to keep all of the profit resulting from the auction.

Read the review about a new plugin called WP Auctions on WordPress Tavern – Who Needs eBay When You Have WP Auctions?

Be sure to leave a comment as the [...]

How to grow a successful relationship with your readers?
Guidelines for writing that builds better relationships.

Read about these useful tips: Blogging Is A Dialect: Do You Speak It?

HubSpot has made an excellent online tool called Website Grader for grading your site.
It’s a free tool for measuring the marketing effectiveness of your website by giving it a score that incorporates website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors.

Not only does it give your site a grade it also provides some basic advice [...]

What the heck is a pingback? When I started blogging I was pretty confused by it – pingbacks, trackbacks???

I wrote an article about trackbacks What is a trackback? so I thought it would be fair for making one about pingbacks to clear it up a bit more.

So what is a pingback?

Pingback is a built in [...]

Trackback is a blogging term meaning a way of notifying a website about publishing an article referencing it.

By trackbacking an article a short excerpt of your entry will be placed on the referenced website with a link to your article. So you see it’s a good way to increase your website traffic.

How to send a [...]

Finally the trash functionality is going to be integrated to WordPress 2.9.

Users of Gmail are aware of the possibility in a web application: you move content into the trash and the content will be deleted after a certain time. Alternatively, you can also restore the content, always depending on a defined time frame.

Read the full [...]

There are reasons for not wanting to start a blog to increase traffic to your website but none of them are good. People say they don’t have the time to write the fresh copy on a constant basis that will get them the rankings they need. Well, that’s what ghost writers are for.

Some say they [...]

If you write a blog, the bad news is you have millions of competitors.

The good news is most of them suck.

The same problems come up again and again, keeping bloggers from building a real audience for what they have to say. So how about you? Do you commit one of these seven deadly sins with [...]