2008 February

Feb 22 08

Ashley MorganBlogging Personal8 Comments

Despite the blogosphere’s rocket like growth over the last few years I’m convinced that we are still at the beginning of it’s development. My reasoning for this is based on the amount of people that I know in the offline world who are bloggers.
I know five bloggers in the real world.
Five. And that […]

How many bloggers do you know in the offline world?

Feb 21 08

Ashley MorganBlogging WordPress10 Comments

I’m working on a theme and have run across a problem that I can’t solve. It concerns the automatic insertion of paragraph tags at the top and bottom of the content. The effect I’m trying to achieve is as follows,
Blog title. First line of content.
I don’t want a new paragraph for the […]

Help me solve this wordpress conundrum

Feb 20 08

Ashley MorganBlogging Software12 Comments

For a long time I’ve been a fan of Camino. It’s light and fast and does everything you’d expect a browser to do but today it let me down. Irregularities in color management meant I wasted hours switching between photoshop and browser and back again, rubbing my eyes in disbelief with each blink. […]

3 reasons why you should use Safari as your browser

Feb 18 08

Ashley MorganBlogging Money2 Comments

Don’t believe the hype. Whilst it’s still absolutely possible to make a very good income from legitimate professional blogging there are far too many so called pro bloggers out there all plowing a very tired and very familiar field.
Their game plan goes a little something like this…
The first step is to fill your blog […]

Lies damned lies and earning statistics

Feb 17 08

Ashley MorganPersonal2 Comments

As weeks go the last seven days have been terrible. Viruses have attacked our health and miscreants have attacked our website. Thankfully, eight days later, things are a lot calmer.
I’ve got a lot of email to catch up on and plenty of comments that need approving and replying to. If you’ve sent […]

That was the week that was

Feb 16 08

Ashley MorganPersonal4 Comments

The astonishing work of art you see above is a hand made fully functional computer keyboard, turned out by Richard Nagy and proudly displayed on his website Data Mancer. Each keyboard is custom made for it’s owner and every one is absolutely unique. The one in the photograph is called Von Slatt, others […]

Become a truly decadent blogger with this amazing piece of kit

Feb 15 08

Ashley MorganBlogging Design5 Comments

Size matters very much in blog design. There’s a constant battle between having enough space on the page and making sure all your readers can access your content.
It’s the age old browser width conundrum. Do you design for a minimum width of 800 pixels, 1024 pixels, 1280 pixels, or do you go liquid? […]