Blog Tips

15 Must Have WordPress Plugins For Personal Bloggers

One of the beautiful things about the WordPress platform is that it is open source. Being open source allows third party developers to provide features and add ons to the platform in the form of plugins. Over time some of the most popular plugins (such as Gravatars) become worked into the base code. [...]

August 18th, 2008 | Dave Konig | 3 comments | Continued

E-Mail Is Life

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Creating Your Online IdentityWhile it is the sum of all parts that will equate to your complete online identity, your e-mail address is the glue that binds it all together. E-mail is the basic block of correspondence through the blogosphere. You will use [...]

June 24th, 2008 | Dave Konig | 1 comment | Continued

Choosing An Avatar

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Creating Your Online IdentityYour online avatar is one of two distinguishing features that you will have in the blogosphere.
The importance of choosing your online avatar has never been more important with the integration of services such as Gravatar and MyBlogLog. Here are some things [...]

June 18th, 2008 | Dave Konig | 0 comments | Continued

Choosing A Name

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Creating Your Online IdentityYour online name is one of two distinguishing features that you will have in the blogosphere.
The importance of choosing your online name, or handle, is not something you should overlook. Afterall, your parents did not provide you with your given name [...]

June 17th, 2008 | Dave Konig | 0 comments | Continued

Creating Your Online Identity

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Creating Your Online IdentityThe first step of doing anything online should be to create your online identity. This is something that most people usually overlook because they already have some sort of online presence already. When writing a personal blog you have to [...]

June 16th, 2008 | Dave Konig | 2 comments | Continued