There are a lot of articles on how to optimize Wordpress blogs for the search engines. However, I still haven’t seen any articles outlining actual steps you need to take immediately after you install a fresh copy of Wordpress theme. The information below will attempt to do just that.
Step 1: [...]

Cross-posted to Learning Signs.
Sarah [my 9 year old 4th grader] created the following digital story today before school using VoiceThread about the book, “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” She role-played Annabeth Chase in a video we shot last Wednesday in St Louis using my iPhone. This is the first VoiceThread we’ve created [...]

Cheryl Oakes‘ post, “When was the last time you watched someone teach a digital learner?” tells the story of my 9 year old at the ACTEM conference two weeks ago in Maine, as she learned how to use the program Animation-ish. The program is described as:
…an easy-to-use animation software program that inspires creativity and enables [...]

Today, I want to share some more thoughts about staying on topic within individual posts, an extension of an older piece I wrote about staying directly to the point. There are many times that you might find yourself getting distracted from the main point of your post. For example, I sometimes write a title down, [...]

Scroll down to the the grassy footer, which is a nice touch. Dave also wrote a balanced post with his thoughts about Thesis after redesigning his site using the theme framework.

This is a re-deux of an earlier article I wrote on how to install nginx on os x via macports. It has been a while since I got my hands dirty with server installs and configuration so I thought why not do an update to the latest version of nginx while learning how to install [...]

A few days ago, I wrote a guest post on Pro Blog Design about creating a Stats page for your WordPress blog. One day later, Kyle, who liked the article, wrote a post here on WP Hacks to let you know about my guest post.  One of WP Hacks readers, Wesley, enjoyed the post and [...]

No matter how talented of a blogger you are, getting a blog started can be a very difficult thing to do.  This is primarily because there is still the problem with trying to get people to discover your blog.    Some people turn to social networking websites to try to drive that traffic (such as Digg, [...]

You’ve probably noticed that with our last redesign of this site, we switched from displaying the Feedburner widget to instead displaying our actual Feedburner feed count.
Back in May of 2008 I wrote about the FeedCount plugin, which is a WordPress plugin which allows you to easily display your WordPress feed count to your readers.  Basically [...]

You’ve probably noticed that with our last redesign of this site, we switched from displaying the Feedburner widget to instead displaying our actual Feedburner feed count.
Back in May of 2008 I wrote about the FeedCount plugin, which is a WordPress plugin which allows you to easily display your WordPress feed count to your readers.  Basically [...]