Best posts on Niche Blogger Today from Mar 2009
Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on a great post from last month, here’s a quick digest of the top posts that you may want to check out:
- Drupal Tips Monday - Moderating Content
Posted on Monday, March 9th, 2009 in Drupal Monday - Comments: (1)I run a couple Drupal websites that rely on user submissions to fill the site with content. As spammers discovered the site though, it became clear that I was going to have to moderate all incoming posts so that garbage didn’t get automatically posted.I also like to control when content gets published so that it goes across all the RSS and Twitter feeds at just the right times, when the most people would be able to see it.
- Drupal Tips Monday: Install Drupal the Easy Way
Posted on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 in Drupal Monday - Comments: (1)If you’re new to Drupal, simply installing it can be an intimidating proposition. Especially if you don’t know your SQL server from your FTP. If you don’t want to mess about doing all the hard work of installing a basic installation of Drupal, then let someone else do it for you.This tool is not very well known, but it’s invaluable.
- Drupal Tips Monday: When to use Drupal?
Posted on Thursday, March 12th, 2009 in Drupal Monday - Comments: (1)I get this question a lot: When should you use Drupal over other content management systems such as Wordpress?The only easy answer is: it depends.To understand why, let’s explore a few things about Wordpress and Drupal.WordpressWordpress is a fantastically flexible blogging platform. It looks great, has a strong backend and is very easy to use.Wordpress can be hacked into becoming a Content Management system, but it’s not the way it’s designed out of the box.
- Niche Blogging 101 Series: How to Research Your Niche
Posted on Friday, March 6th, 2009 in Niche Blogging 101 - Comments: (1)This is part three in an ongoing series about how to start your own Niche Blog. To read the rest of the posts, check out the Niche Blogging 101 page.Last week we covered the topic of how to find a niche for you to blog about. This week we’re going to discuss researching that niche and finding out whether or not it’s worth your time.
- Reader Question: How Can I Better Monetize my Established Blog?
Posted on Thursday, March 26th, 2009 in Advertising - Comments: (1)This is the first post in an ongoing series of reader questions. I’m more than happy to answer reader questions (well, attempt to as least). So feel free to contact me and I’ll be happy to try and help!This week’s question comes from Clive who runs an established blog called Fan Cinema Today.Clive’s Question:I’ve run a niche blog, fancinematoday.
- Technical Thursday: Creating a Simple Photo Gallery
Posted on Thursday, March 5th, 2009 in Technical Thursday - Comments: (0)This week’s Technical Thursday post comes via another blog post I found about how to automatically generate a photo gallery from a directory of images.The tutorial guides you through all the processes you need to create the gallery and it also includes the files. Learning how to do this is a great springboard into developing your own way to sell your pictures directly on your website.
- Theme Tuesday: Arthemia Wordpress Theme
Posted on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 in Theme Tuesday - Comments: (0)Author’s Note: Many apoligies for the lateness of this post.This week’s featured theme is Arthemia Free by Michael Jubel. It’s a very well packaged magazine style theme, perfect for taking your niche blog beyond simply being a blog.The design is clean and the theme is relatively easy to use. It also boasts a stack of robust features such as: Category Drop Down Menu, Automatic Thumbnail resizing, Animated Categories menu and built in ad slots for easy niche blog monetization.
- Theme Tuesday: Corporate Theme from StudioPress
Posted on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 in Theme Tuesday - Comments: (0)There is now a great new Corporate Theme solution from hit premium theme company, StudioPress. It replaces their Office theme that used to be a hallmark of the RevolutionTwo theme line.This theme is ten times better and more full featured. It features many ways for you to display your company’s content. It features that fantastic Flash featured content widget, as well as great ways to integrate videos, blogs and social media in your corporation’s new website.
- Theme Tuesday: Mimbo Magazine Theme
Posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 in Theme Tuesday - Comments: (0)Mimbo Theme is a pretty slick Magazine Style 3 columned theme. It’s well designed and well programmed. I’m using on one of my blogs, Austerity Blog and it’s worked out very well. It’s easy to place ads, your readers have easy access to more of your content and it integrates thumbnail images nicely. I’m probably going to start using it more of some of my other sites.
- Wordpress Wednesday: How to Remove the Sidebar for One Page
Posted on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 in Wordpress Wednesday - Comments: (2)Many people don’t realize that you can heavily customize how Wordpress displays your pages. As an example of this, let’s pretend that you need a page on your site to not display the sidebar (like if you needed to display a large picture or calendar).There are 3 steps to remove the Wordpress Sidebar:Create a new Page TemplateRemove the Sidebar CodeApply Page TemplateHow to Create a Custom Wordpress TemplateThis process actually isn’t that difficult.
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I’m not sure how I missed this blog Jonathon. Thanks for your kind words this morning, I actually didn’t remember introducing you to Visit Indiana.
I like the concept of this site, and you’ve really stepped up the layout and design side. That’s always been my real weak point for sure.