Last month, I put out a call for business submissions asking people who use WordPress or another blogging application for their company websites (not just business blogs) to submit their URLs for a new series here on BusinessLogs that showcases businesses using blogging applications in cool ways. It’s time to highlight another business doing great Read more »
How to Schedule Your Blog Posts in Blogger, WordPress and Typepad
Sep. 29, 2009
I’ve written before about pre-writing your posts on weekends, which works well for many professional bloggers. But the fact is that whether you blog for business or personal reasons, pre-writing and scheduling your blog posts is always a good idea. Scheduling your blog posts is different from simply writing post drafts. The latter requires you Read more »
5 Useful WordPress Admin Plug-ins for Business Blogs
Sep. 21, 2009
If you’re in charge of running your WordPress-powered business blog, you’ll love these five plug-ins. I like them because they make life easier for WordPress administrators, especially if you’re managing a blog with multiple users. Dashboard Custom Menu This plug-in makes it easy to add a custom menu to your blog dashboard. As you can Read more »
Five Ways to Tweak a WordPress Theme
Aug. 31, 2009
Ah, free WordPress themes. I’m convinced they’re one of the biggest reasons WordPress is the most popular blogging platform today. From one-column minimalism to grid-based magazine layouts, photoblogging styles to made-for-Adsense themes, there are free WordPress themes for every taste- just download, install and activate! But to set your blog apart, you’ll want to tweak Read more »
Odeo Gets “Bought”, Vox Goes Live
Oct. 26, 2006
Odeo’s Buyback RodeoYesterday the news came down that Odeo (the fun little podcast startup) is shifting gears bigtime and transitioning to greener pastures and bigger/better things. In what’s got to be the most interesting “Web 2.0″ industry story of the past few weeks, Ev Williams used (I estimate) a few million dollars of his own Read more »
Six Apart: Six Miles From Relevant
Jul. 13, 2006
Yesterday Six Apart announced Movable Type Enterprise and v3.3 of their web publishing software, and what’s funny is that I didn’t find out until today that any announcement was made. Normally their software launches have been a big deal in the blogosphere, but for the past 6+ months the MT buzz factor has been languishing Read more »
Six Apart’s New Focus: From Pro Dev To High School
May. 31, 2006
Six Apart’s focus over the past few years has switched from catering to the professional web development and enterprise audience, to the tweens/teens MySpace crowd. After their acquisition of Live Journal in early 2005, you could tell that their focus was shifting. The world of LJ is entirely different than the blogosphere that I know Read more »
Movable Type vs. WordPress, My Opinion
May. 9, 2006
Yesterday Sherwin and Geof responded in the comments on the Socialite Life launch entry asking what I thought about WordPress vs. Movable Type. My response would have been too long for a comment so I thought I’d turn it into an entry
Alexa Totally Unreliable?
Feb. 16, 2006
Many people use Alexa as a generic “site comparison” service, but is it accurate? Here are some oddities I found:
Niall Fixes Plaguing Movable Type Bug
Feb. 13, 2006
I’m not sure if this is big news to all of you, but for designers/developers who work on sites run with Movable Type, it’ll probably be useful. Up till now, if you used custom submit images at the bottom of a comment form the entire comment-posting process wouldn’t work the way you expected. Either a Read more »
Flock Soars Like An Ostrich
Oct. 21, 2005
With the private beta scrapped because of P2P leaks of the Flock installer, the bird team decided to step-up and drop a public beta into everybody’s laps. Their Flock homepage is full of disclaimers, but that didn’t stop some people from raining on their parade:
Content Management for Weblogs
Aug. 22, 2005
Weblog management software is a type of content management, so why do so many weblog publishing applications not let you handle other types of content in the same elegant manner? In my experience, all content you handle is called “posts”, “entries”, “articles”, “logs” — but how is that intuitive? By pigeonholing content into pre-defined terms, Read more »
Movable Type Accessibility In Question
Jan. 11, 2005
Joe Clark, one of the loudest voices in the world in regards to accessibility, has a boombastic writeup on his weblog that discusses how Movable Type is an application that generates content, and should therefore adhere to the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines or ATAG: A detail of note here: Many browsers comply with most of Read more »
Don’t Forget Design
Jan. 8, 2005
Things have been slow-going around here as of late, and that’s not because we’ve run out of things to say. We’ve been busy with a lot of internal and client-facing projects, and hopefully we’ll be able to show y’all soon. We were talking recently and wondering, where did real design go? When did “having a Read more »
SixApart: 2 Steps Forward
Jun. 16, 2004
After the SixApart licensing fiasco took place only a few weeks ago, the company — headed still by Ben and Mena Trott, among others — has taken a good look at its pricing structure on its Movable Type software, and changed a few things.
