Great RSS Feed Icon Generator

I have yet to try this out, but it looks great -- create a nice looking RSS Feed icon for your blog with this tool

clipped from www.smashupgraphics.com RSS Feed Icon Generator Here's a new smashup that generates a RSS feed icon. Choose the color scheme, size, and whether you want a drop shadow and glassy effect. This is the standard web icon used on websites and blogs to show users how to subscribe to receive the latest content. RSS feeds make it easy to stay up to date on the latest stories and articles from your favorite blog or website. Read more about what RSS feeds are and how to use them here. Feel free to use any of the feed icons that you generate here on your website or blog so that users know how to subscribe. Here's an earlier post about how to use smashups on your own website. How To Use These Graphics On Your Website Try it out. Simply click "Create" to make a new RSS feed image that looks like this: If you need a smaller button, just decrease the size. For example, here's what the icon looks like with size=60:

Great Wordpress Tutorials

clipped from www.wpdesigner.com How to Use Wordpress as a Membership Directory Do you want to create a moderated membership directory that showcases your member’s information? Do you want it to be flexible, be very little work after initial setup, and use a world-class open source platform that you are already familiar with? Your first thought might not be to use Wordpress for such a project, but since it already has an extremely easy way to accept, moderate and update registrations – it’s a perfect candidate. In this tutorial I will show you how I built a successful membership directory using nothing more than a standard Wordpress 2.3+ install and 2 very powerful plugins. (more…) clipped from www.wpdesigner.com How to Create An Archives Page In another effort to de-clutter the sidebar and begin your initiation for The Organization for the Organized, here’s how to create an archives page for archive links listing by categories and months. First of all, check out the Wpdesigner’s archives page to see what you’ll be adding to your blog.

Top 10 Wordpress CMS Plugins

clipped from www.blueprintds.com Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins For moderately sized sites (including simple e-Commerce sites), WordPress does a pretty good job as a CMS, making it easy to maintain your site, and update your content. Of course, it does this best with the help of a good theme, and some great plugins. The strength of WordPress is the community of developers who have already done almost anything you can think of with it. Here are the best plugins we’ve run across, the ones we install for nearly all of our client’s sites. Cforms II - This is far and away the best contact form plugin there is. The reason? configurability. You can easy build literally anything with it. We’ve built out employment application forms, wedding checklists, and more for clients. It also drives our own quote form. There’s also built in spam protection, via question and answer or captcha. by delicious days

Google Sitemaps Generator

Sign up for Google Webmaster Services (do a Google search) and then download, install and use this plugin.

clipped from www.arnebrachhold.de Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search. More information what XML-Sitemaps are and how they can help you to get indexed by the major search engines can be found at Sitemaps.org and the searchenginewatch blog. If you have questions about XML-Sitemaps or run into problems, have a look at my Sitemaps FAQ. Note: The XML-Sitemap format was introduced in 2005 by Google and adopted in 2006 by YAHOO, MSN Search and Ask.com so thats why it’s often called "Google Sitemaps". Features: Available for all WordPress versions since 1.5 No PHP skills or file changes needed User interface to customize all parameters like priorities etc. Available in many languages Generates automatically a sitemap for all types of WordPress pages Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments

31 Tips to being a better blogger

Great source of articles from Problogger on how to build a better blog.

clipped from www.problogger.net Archive for 31 Days to Building a Better Blog 98 Blog Tips for a Lazy Sunday The 31 Days to Building a Better Blog is over and it’s time to post the final reader tips. In today’s batch there are 98 tips in total which means that I’ve now posted links to 626 reader blog tips on the central 31 Day Project Page. Please note - submissions are now closed. Run a SWOT Analysis on Your Blog Today is the last day in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project and as a result I want to make your last task a little reflective and forward looking. Your task today is to run a SWOT Analysis on your blog. A SWOT analysis is a strategic tool that has been used for many […] Explore a Social Media Site Today’s task in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project (this is the 2nd last day) is to explore a social media site (whether it be a networking site or a bookmarking one) that you might not have seen or explored previously. I’m not going to tell you which one to choose to […]

Video Tutorials on How to Best Use OpenID

Here are a number of video tutorials on what OpenID is, how to use it and how it can help you.

clipped from searchmarketingcourses.com What is Open ID, How do You Use It and Why Should You Care (in 4 Short Videos) Problogger just ran an article about a new service called OpenID (it’s actually a guest post by Yunching of YC’s Ramblings). The short story of OpenID is that it simplifies the log-in process in our busy internet lives (i.e., you don’t need to keep creating new accounts for each new website that you want to use). The long story of OpenID is, well, longer. That’s why Problogger ran an article about it and that’s what these videos are for. So, go check out the Problogger article to learn how how OpenID can help you blog commenting and check out our videos to learn what OpenID is, how to use it and why you should care. What is OpenID and How to use it The first two videos are nice, clear demonstrations of what OpenID is and how to use it. Our first video is called OpenID Show from Simon Willison [Note: Simon has a number of posts about OpenID on his website which you may want to check out].

OpenID and Wordpress.com

Your OpenID URL on your Worpdress.com blog.

clipped from faq.wordpress.com What is OpenID? OpenID is an open standard that lets you sign in to other sites on the Web using your WordPress.com account. This means less usernames and passwords to remember and less time spent signing up for new sites. How do I get an OpenID? If you have a WordPress.com blog, you have an OpenID already! An OpenID is a URL, and your OpenID is the URL of your blog, for example: http://matt.wordpress.com/ How do I use my OpenID? Look for sites with sign in forms that look like this: Enter your OpenID - that’s the URL of your weblog: Click the button, and you will be redirected to WordPress.com. If you are already logged in, you will be asked if you want to pass your identity to the site: Click “Yes; just this time”, or “Yes; always” if you don’t want to be asked this question again for this site. You will be redirected back to the site and logged in, all without using a username or password! What if I’m not signed in to WordPress.com?