My first spam battle.
    Posted by Amanda on March 9, 2007 | Comments (2)
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    So I come online today and what do I see 17 messages gleefully awaiting my approval! Isn’t it always fun to think you’re much more famous then you are? I know I enjoyed it. This was of course until it dawned on me that oh my goodness I have automatic approval on.. strange?
    I go in and find 17 spam messages and more coming in! I thought this was insane so I said fine fine fine I will get a spam blocker and I have to say I did the Akismet as everyone else was making such a fuss about. I got my API since I can get the free one as I do not make $500+ a month on my blogs. Sadly :( I will soon though it is my goal! It blocked a total of 32 messages of spam today! I couldn’t believe it.
    I am not fond of having to sign up through wordpress.com for a username. I understand their point of it. But it was painless and I got my API key within 2 minutes and to install it was painless as it was already installed. You just copy and paste and click activate and I have to say I’m not looking back. Its a great tool.

      Templates for your site
      Posted by Amanda on March 6, 2007 | Comments (1)
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      The great thing about having wordpress is all the free templates you can find online. TBW uses one so I can show readers how great and versatile they can be. However its hard for me to find them based on the requirements I have for 3-4 columns. No one really makes 4 columns that work well and aren’t made for personal sites however but using free templates are great.

      1. They make it easier for you as the blogger to update, upload, chmod, tweak and you’re set.
      2. You can skin your site with multiple free layouts
      3. If you get a free layout, you have a starting point
      Amy from www.asastar.com started out with a free template and then redid it to suit her sites needs and and got rid of the sultry image of a model in her underwear and replaced it with a cute graphic of hearts.

      There are so many free layout places its hard to list all of them, I compiled a short good for now list and am looking for resources that do not display the same layouts over and over again. It’s hard to find those though, a lot have broken links and I am shifting through as to not give you “filler” content and list tons of things and never check back for dead links. If you ever see anything dead let me know. It’s down immediately and monitored for life signs :P

        Important Wordpress Update!
        Posted by Amanda on March 3, 2007 | Comments (5)
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        WORDPRESS USERS PLEASE READ!

        Wordpress users who’ve just upgraded to 2.1.1 there is a security update to upgrade the version from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2. It has just been released! It is a dangerous and much needed upgrade! A hacker seems to have access the download upgrade off of the Wordpress site and altered the code
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          Getting the most out of your Adspace
          Posted by Amanda on February 26, 2007 | Comments (4)
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          *Please note this is for Wordpress users!*

          For those of you who own a blog, or use wordpress for their content management program maximizing your advertising space is a tricky thing. Some layouts are funny if you’re using free themes or you have so many ad companies its hard without over running your site with millions of ads! There are so many great plugins for these.

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