Blogging is massive, with literally hundreds of millions of blogs published daily on innumerable topics containing nearly every field of human interest or information. Our bloggers at WebDevNews and Attackr focus generally on web design, graphic art, and web development issues. Many of them build their own blog sites, or use Open Source tools such as WordPress for the architecture. We follow trends in blogging, generally as they relate to site design and software, and are constantly searching for new writers and technicians to blog on the sites. If you have a love of blogging and an interest in web design and development, open an account at WebDevNews or Attackr and post your articles, reviews, and tutorials with us.

Does the Bloggers blogging platform affect your commenting?
Yes… yes it does.
For me at least, I particularly have a negative reaction to seeing a blogger using Blogger/etc. What do I not like about them?

Interface:
for the Blogger: It’s a bit of a mess, I didn’t like the ‘new’ Blogger control panel (admin interface) and the old [...]

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My fellow readers, to be honest, I haven’t paid much attention to my Alexa rank, but some recent posts around the interweb have prompted me to start thinking about it.
For those who don’t know, your website’s Alexa rank affects the amount of money that advertisers will pay to be shown on your site. The [...]

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I was recently asked by a friend to help move her WordPress-run site to a new host. It was not just a simple matter of making a new installation of WP at the new host, but also moving old posts, and retaining the look and structure of the blog.
This is something that a few [...]

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Blogs, are inherently read by Bloggers. That’s your target audience, regardless of what people say to me, I believe this. Why? Because they are the ones that interact in the vast realm of the Blogosphere. Their opinions have shaped what we call the Blog world today, be it on any platform or language.
Knowing this, what [...]

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Too often this happens to everyone. Here’s the scenario – You’re writing your brand new post, you’ve just published it and you’ve put hours of work into it and you’re proud of your efforts.
An hour later your host/provider has a server fart and your database and all your hard work goes down the drain. [...]

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A powerful tool in any designer’s toolbox is the ability to quickly and efficiently transform their work into a Wordpress template. This ability can be used for design work intended for public release, for client’s who’d like a Wordpress blog integrated with their existing design, or simply for your own use.
I started working with [...]

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I am pleased to announce that I’ve taken over the development of Shawn Grimes SRG Clean Archives WordPress Plug-in.
Plugin description: It’s a simple plug-in designed to display your archive listings in a clean and uniform fashion.
Plugin Features: It lists the Month / Year (links to that months archives), the day of the month [...]

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Sure, WordPress has a lot of great features right out of the box, but what about the serious users who are always looking for more? As many of you probably already know, there are tons of user-created plugins available for WordPress. To help you sort out the gems, I’ve compiled a list of [...]

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So you got into blogging and you’re doing fairly well. Let’s face it, we all want to make money but we aren’t all as high ranked as say Undersigned on Technorati and/or search engines to expect a huge number of hits, but we do get a fair amount of hits and have carved a small [...]

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I’ve been blogging for a few months now, so I still consider myself a novice at this. People like Liz & SeanRox are those that have years upon years of blogging & writing experience, they know how it works and do it well.
Being new at it means I’ve had a lot to learn, plenty [...]

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Social services and blogs are part of modern internet. Many blogs have special buttons in every post which give readers an ability to add the post to their favorite service. Almost every blog platform have plugins which add a lot of such buttons to posts. There are just one problem with those plugins – they [...]

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This guide is specific to WordPress, Google Analytics, and Feedburner… all free and industry standard packages.
Blogging E-Metrics Simplified is a basic overview of:
1. How to implement web analytics into your blog using Google Analytics.
2. How to implement feed analytics into your blog using FeedBurner.
3. How to measure your blog’s impact using Google Analytics.
4. How to [...]

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The <title> tag can be one of the most important when it comes to search engine optimization. It can easily mean the difference between several page ranks on most search engines.
The key thing to understand is that the keywords appearing earlier in the <title> tag are the ones that carry the most weight. [...]

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It’s an old question, argued over countless number of times, with everyone having their own opinion. Similarly I have mine, which I will now give you. Let’s take a look at our options here:
Use WordPress.com as your blog host
This is thehe first time bloggers choice, to just open a WordPress.com account and start blogging, but [...]

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I’ve been asked about this a few times lately, I know there’s a plugin that does this, but this is the most simple way, by far.

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Most of the basic shared hosting plans will only allow you to use 1 domain name and a limited number of databases. So what do you do if you want to set up more then one WordPress powered site on your hosting plan? Here’s a solution.

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