21 Quality WordPress Plugins That Work on Version 2.3

WordPressWordPress 2.3, the most recent, version of the popular blogging software had schema changes which rendered many user-created plugins worthless. Many bloggers are reluctant to upgrade because that means they will loose some of their blog’s functionality.

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Adobe MAX in Chicago, See You There

Adobe Max 2007Adobe MAX will be held in Chicago from Sunday to Wednesday. MAX is the former Macromedia company’s big conference/exposition of the year. Adobe has embraced the event and continued to make it as remarkable as ever.

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A Visual and Techinical Look at CardroomSupply

Cardroom Supply logoI consider myself quite a poker fan. I have my own chip set, two packs of KEM playing cards, and also a old banquet table that has been felted and bumpered. CardroomSupply asked me to review their site and I focused on the products, appearance, and the code of their site.

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Clicky Web Analytics Lets You Spy on Your Site Visitors in Real Time

Clicky Web AnalyticsHow would you like to see where people are coming from and what they are doing on your site as it happens? I have been using a rather new web analytics service, Clicky, for the last two weeks and I’m hooked.

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45 Working Sites to Quickly Submit Your RSS Feeds

Subscribe to JasonBartholme.comThere are a lot of lists out there of links to submit your RSS/XML feeds. However, many of those lists are outdated and include sites that require registration to submit your feed. I have personally gone through each of these sites to insure the site is live and the user does not have to create a registration to submit a feed.

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Post-Mortem of My First Visit to the I Am Bored Front Page

I Am Bored logoIt has been an exciting couple of days. One of my posts, “7 Office Games You Can Play with Your Co-workers“, was promoted to the front page of a nice little site called I Am Bored. 15,000 visitors later, I am happy to report my site stayed up for the entire time and I learned about a new source of traffic.

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7 Office Games You Can Play with Your Co-workers

Office games to play with co-workersBored at work? Need something fun to get your through the day. These seven office games can help make the time go by. If your boss walks by, tell them it’s a team building exercise.

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Finally, an Easy Way to Embed a Google Map in Your Web Page

Google Map RockfordHave you ever wanted to use an interactive Google map on a web page, and got frustrated because it seemed so complex and convoluted? Now, Google gives you a snippet to cut and paste to your web page, blog, IM or email.

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How to Not Mangle Your WordPress Blog Code with Plugins

mangled plugin codeLess than a year ago, I installed WordPress for the first time and was fascinated by the functionality you could add to your blog by installing plugins. Once I found the plugin directory, I was like a kid in a candy store, installing everything I could. What I didn’t realize is that once I deactivated the plugin, there was still left over code on my pages.

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10 Web Sites I Visit on a Regular Basis

mouse clicksI spend much of my waking day online. Aside from developing in ColdFusion, I like to keep on top of what’s going on in web design, web development, CSS, search marketing, and SEO. Here are ten sites that I visit that keep me informed.

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