WordPress Tip: Is My Blog Working?

DavidM    Cool Links, WordPress Tips     development, online, tool, WordPress

Excellent online tool for checking if your WordPress blog is working properly.

http://ismyblogworking.com/

It reports on the status of:
Your web server
Your RSS feed
Your robots.txt file
Your blog is indexed by Google
Your blog is indexed by Bing
Your blog application support for gzip compression.
WP Super Cache
Your blog hosting

Along with a collection of technical details.

Adding Pizazz to Your Blog Posts

Dale Hogan    Design and Development     Blog Design, Blogging, Blogging Help, Fotolia, Images, iStockpoto, online, Plugins, Stock Photography, web, WordPress

Making your blog posts snazzy can be a chore when you’re an active blogger.  With all of life’s demands, it’s hard enough to just find the time to string together a few coherent sentences and get them published to your blog with any consistency.  What’s needed is a ‘have your cake and eat it too’ solution for adding great, legally licensed images to your posts.  Adding the right images to a post can really make it pop!  Well placed thematic photos and illustrations can aid in garnering the type of attention and traffic you want. read more…

Layers Magazine Tutorials

AWWA    Cool Links, Design and Development     free, Layers, magazine, online, training, tutorials

An amazing array of tutorials from Layers Magazine. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Premiere and Lightroom.