Sunday, January 9, 2011
Updated to FlatPress 0.1010.0 Sotto Voce is here!
I updated to the latest Flatpress release. Like all updates I tested it out in another folder while working out any issues. Once completed I move the old release to another folder and move this release to take its place.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Missing Google Adsense Ads
Google recently blocked all Adsense ads on 110MB Domain sites. I hope that they will change their mind soon. Until then if you wish to see what this site looks like with Adsense ads visit http://flatpress.911mb.com/. Sadly, the Google search feature is still broken on that domain.
The only reason I am mentioning this other domain address is because this blog has several in-depth articles on how to setup Adsense ads using the FlatPress blog engine and seeing how the ads appear is helpful.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Advice from Tim Ferriss on Blogging
Tim Ferriss (author and active blogger) discusses blogging and how to setup your web site to improve readership. His presentation from 2009 San Francisco WordCamp is available on his blog site. In it he provides tips on blogging and changes he made to his blog site to increase readership. The presentation is 50 minutes long and is stuffed with tips for all bloggers. During the last half on the presentation, he answers questions from the audience providing even more helpful advice.
How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself
To view the presentations for other speakers at WordCamp 2009, visit these links:
Monday, May 11, 2009
How to: Add FeedFlare Social Bookmarks
Having Social Bookmark links on your site encourages visitors to bookmark specific posts. This makes your site known to other member of the social bookmark service, which can increases visitors to your site. It can also improve your sites rating on search engines. Currently, FlatPress has no widget to add these links. There are a couple of themes, which include icon links to the more popular social bookmark sites. However, if you want to create your own custom set of quick links you will need to modify these themes yourself.
Another way to accomplish this is to use the Feedburner account add-on FeedFlare. This add-on allows you to select from a variety of social bookmarks you can add to your posts. After setting up an account and selecting social bookmarks, you will add a java script to your site’s theme. The process is same as adding Adsense ads to the bottom of your post. If you later decide to change which social bookmark links you want on your post, you only need to change your FeedFlare settings in your FeedBurner account. Then after a some time your changes will show up on your posts. You do not need to change java code you already added to your theme.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
How to: Add Translation Widgets to your Site
Translation widgets make web and blog sites more multilingual accessible by helping visitors read web pages in their native language. These widgets provide a link on a web page that a visitor uses to submit it to an automated web page translation site. For example Google Translator, Yahoo Babel Fish, and Microsoft translator are all sites that can be used to to translate web pages.
Listed in this post are nine free translation widgets you can add to your site. They primarily differ in languages supported, means of choosing a language, and translation sites. Each widget is active in this post so you can try each one to help in choosing a widget. Many of these widgets have different versions available at their site.
