Last night, Dave Hodginkson gave a talk at a London Calling Photographers meetup in London.
Dave kindly added a slide show of his presentation which you can see here.
The focus was the reasons behind having a blog and how to effectively use a WordPress blog.
I have had this blog on WordPress for about 7 months and I’m in the process of working on a new website. While I’m busy thinking up ideas and creating that website and its images, I also want to enhance my blog.
Dave’s talk was a good introduction into aspects of my blog I and maybe others out there may not have yet considered.
If you attended or are interested in more technical aspects of blogging, here are some of the links from topics mentioned from the evening.
I hope you find them useful…
Thanks again Dave.. I have some studying / implementing to do!
[SK]
LINKS
Photoshelter – Great site for websites, selling photography and secure image archiving
Dreamhost.com – For web hosting
WordPress Alexa Plugin for rankings
Akismet – A plugin which identifies and blocks comment and trackback spam on blogs with integration to various blogging systems
XML sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog.
Broken Link checker widget – This plugin will check your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found.
Facebook widgets – To display your Facebook friends status updates, posted items and/or notifications on your WordPress dashboard.
Google adsense – Earning revenue online
RPX Plug in – Increases site registrations and generates traffic to your site by allowing users to easily register/login via an existing account with Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, LinkedIn and other social platforms. Users also can publish their comments or activities from your site to multiple social networks simultaneously.
Contact Sachin
Bunny - Sachin,
If you need help doing anything to wordpress feel free to email me: themes, plugins, whatever.
Long time wordpress user, and I love it, would be honored to help you if I could.
~Bunny
sachinkhona - No worries!!
sachinkhona - Check out Tofurious's videos. They come free with the B School when you sign up Nate!
sachinkhona - I won a free smugmug account at WPPI RoadTrip in Seattle so starting to use that and will definitely be implementing that into my new website soon!!
Thanks Ajay!
Ajay - BTW, have you considered sites like Zenfolio or Smugmug?
I've been reading up on “all-inclusive” hosting sites (with e-commerce facilities) and these two seem to be considerably cheaper than Photoshelter. Not sure if they offer the same range of features as Photoshelter, but they're definitely worth a look.
Ajay - I'm checking this out just now. I've been meaning to start a new blog for ages! Cheers for sharing the links.
Nate Perkes - Super cool stuff! Thanks dude. I've got to get better at blogging!
sachinkhona - Woooooooo!! AWESOME …
Hahaha
Dave Hodgkinson - Alexa ranking 2,045,982. I hope both your viewers are very happy :)
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