Technology Talk – 09/23/2007

September 23rd, 2007

Technology

Wow, it has been a very busy week online. Here are a few things I enjoyed from around the blogosphere this week:

The Simple Dollar shares their 30 Essential Open Source software. Included are the usual suspects, but also a few others have been thrown in that you may not know about.
Ashwin guest posted over [...]

Everything You Need to Know About Favicons

September 18th, 2007

Web Design

Have you ever noticed those little images that appear in your web browser next to the blog’s name and wondered what they are, or maybe wondered how to go about how to add one to your blog? This post is being written in the hope of answering your questions regarding favicons.
What is a favicon? [...]

Fill Your SEO Needs for WordPress with All-in-One SEO Pack

September 17th, 2007

Blogging, SEO, Web Design

I’ve talked to several bloggers who spend a lot of time working on optimizing their websites for search engines, and often without good results. This can be attributed to several things, but often times it is the result of a lack of SEO knowledge, or to many SEO plugins that all do the same things.
If [...]

Kyle’s Cove Gets a New Logo Courtesy of Logo Design Works

September 14th, 2007

Web Design

It is with great pleasure that I announce that as of today, Kyle’s Cove now officially has a new logo, courtesy of Logo Design Works.
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I am not very talented when it comes to creating a website logo, so a couple of weeks ago I was thrilled to [...]

Technology Talk – 09/05/2007

September 5th, 2007

Miscellaneous

I usually don’t do more than one technology talk a week, but a lot of great stuff is happening, so here is the second one in three days!

Daily Blog Tips has released a new WordPress Plugin called Homepage Excerpts. This plugin gives you a large number of options, but its primary function is [...]

Is the Blog Sidebar Slowly Moving to the Blog’s Footer?

August 22nd, 2007

Blogging, Web Design

There have been many movements in the blogosphere over the past year, but one that I haven’t fully ever understood is the recent transition blog sidebars have been making to the footer of the blog.
I originally noticed this probably 6-8 months ago when a few well made WordPress themes were released and started making their [...]