So for the past week I’ve been running a contest to win a free theme from WPShift in which there were two licenses up for grabs.
Only 12 people entered the contest so each person had about a 17% chance of winning, which is pretty good. And the winners are…
The Process (Video)
Some of you probably [...]

While I have taken a break, I haven’t been inactive in reading lots of great posts from the community. This week, I share some of my favorite posts from the past week, including some that you may have missed.
I suggest you check them out or share your own posts in the comments area – all [...]

Last week when I was at ESSDACK in Hutchinson, Kansas, I recorded the following three minute update with Lori Fast and Kevin Honeycutt, discussing preparations for the 2010 PodStock Conference.

Podstock 2010 will take place July 16 and 17 in Wichita, Kansas. Join the Podstock 2010 Facebook Event to stay up to date about the conference, [...]

When designing a large website, especially one that contains a store, you may be required to design a system for ordering online, or a multi-step process of another sort. Walking users through this process by making it easy and intuitive is key to helping increase conversion rates. Any frustration along the way [...]

This is the second post on Child Themes. In the previous post I explained a bit on the background, now it’s time to start using a child theme, and see some of the things that can be achieved using a child theme.
When modifying theme template files, you do need a working knowledge of CSS, PHP, [...]

When it comes to building relationships with others, there is no better place to do this than the Internet. While there is a good chance that you’ll be able to build up quite a following without using the Internet, how much success could you have sending out flyers and leaving messages for people to continue [...]

Here’s another round of icon freebies for you guys and perhaps the last for the year 2009. Folks at Iconshock designed 8 cute political characters for us and you can download them absolutely free here at hongkiat.com
These 8 character icons are made up of these following politicians:

Barack Obama (United States of America)
Hugo Chavez (Venezuela)
Silvio [...]

AWS EBS-based instances are a really neat idea, but they don’t have any additional storage. You need to create, attach and initialize an EBS with the same letter as a normal AMI-based instance.
For example you use a number of non-EBS and EBS instances in a cluster and they perform the same function. You probably want [...]

Matthew Teague’s December 2009 National Geographic article, “The Other Tibet,” should be considered must-reading for anyone interested in understanding modern China. In my November 5, 2009 podcast, “Reflections on Social Media, School Change, 21st Century Learning Skills, and China” I addressed some of the recent challenges the Chinese government has faced in maintaining tight control [...]

I realize I might receive disagreement from some, but these are the ways I see RSS subscriptions and Twitter followings growing or evolving.
The past few years have been great for bloggers. Finally, they’ve been able to receive some form of a reward for their work, even though the traditional media still feels that they [we] [...]