via Best Of WLTC Part 2 | Weblog Tools Collection.

via What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders.

This series is broken up into two parts. The first part covers the months of January-June while part two takes care of July-December. When you browse through the links, let us know which one was your favorite or perhaps, which one has been the most helpful to you.

via Best Of WLTC Part 1 | Weblog Tools Collection.

The goal is to get it down to an

svn switch URL .

for any WP updates or Tarski updates.

Lots! of things to explore.

Really want to figure out how to get plugin updates working/

1. Client asks who designed your website.

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : 20 signs you don’t want that web design project.

WordPress now supports version tracking, you can track the changes made to a post or page like wikipedia or version control system. This feature is important for multi author blogs, you can track the changes made by others.

Another important feature added to 2.6 is “Press This” bookmarklet that lets you post quickly by pressing the bookmarklet. This is inspired from “Tumblr”, if you have ever used tumblr you will know how useful is this feature. It can recognize Youtube video embed codes and Flickr images, when you are on Youtube or Flickr click this bookmarklet for easy posting of videos or photos.

WordPress 2.6 Released.

Not bad at all…

Summary: Linear vs. non-linear. Author-driven vs. reader-driven. Storytelling vs. ruthless pursuit of actionable content. Anecdotal examples vs. comprehensive data. Sentences vs. fragments.

Wayne Brent alerted us to a video called “RSS in Plain English” from a resource called The Common Craft. Right now it is on the homepage to that link. You might go there in the future and need to poke around to find it. I believe the actual link location is http://www.blip.tv/file/205570/ but I can’t verify it because the response time is so bad. It must be the hot item on the Web right now. “RSS in Plain English” seems like a clear explanation about how you can use RSS 1.0 to subscribe to blogs and news sources. Doesn’t get into RSS 2.0, which pushes audio and video for podcasts, but if one gets the gist of how RSS works for blogs and videos, they will make the connection for podcasts.

Summary: The more engaged users are, the more features an application can sustain. But most users have low commitment — especially to websites, which must focus on simplicity, rather than features.

The article is worth reading all the way through.

How many phone calls do I have to make to figure out how to dial the phone?

Yes, the title may look like this post should be on an amateur blog and that it will be full of references to clip art and animated gifs, but this is serious. I’ve compiled a list of what I think are 25 ways to improve your website in as little time as possible. All can be done in a matter of minutes. Now, a website is hard work and usually there are no quick fixes but this list should provide you with a few pointers to make some updates today. If you like, it can also be used as a basis for a quality check document.

I know SQL. 8)

There are probably many ways to do it. I didn’t want to deal with changing the plugin code, so let’s do it all in the database.

Here’s my submission to the EventCalendar mailing list with an example of how to automatically take care of repeating events. Good day.

P.S. I manually set the contents of RPT to '1' before I started all of this.

Dig those flash Flickr slideshows? All that’s needed is a bit of code to embed them within your website to give your readers something dynamic.

Out of boredom and also because I stopped using Bloglines a while ago in favor of NetNewsWire I needed a way to update my blogroll on my site. So, I took my first foray into AppleScript and hashed out a simple little script to populate my blogroll page like Bloglines once used to.

Nice. Now I have a page that contains all of my news sources.

I may have to figure out how to automate the generation and updating of the page in WordPress. Probably just dump it to a file and include that.

I’ve compiled a small list (or rant) of some very basic and fundamental rules that all webmasters must learn and respect when developing a website that needs to make actual money. This list can also be used by companies looking to hire a web development firm or to evaluate an already deployed website project.

Why thank you Sam – a great list.

sed vs. PERL

sed one-liners are here sed FAQ is here

I wanted to change all occurrences of PRIVATE to NJPRIVATE in a bunch of files. It’s a simple command in sed, but what about replacing the file? output to temporary, then copy? yes, but.

The way people find websites, blogs, and other content they like on the net is changing.

Poke around before you get started writing. On the surface Journler is a simple enough program: create an entry on a calendar date, write your thoughts down, and maybe add the entry to a folder or two. But look a little further, around a few nooks and crannies, and you’ll find a program that is suprisingly sophisticated and capable. Journler includes stunning iLife integration, it can record audio and video, it will import years worth of rich text entries and filter them on the fly. When you’re ready, you can use Journler to blog or put linked notes on your iPod, and much more.

I hope you enjoy Journler as much as I’ve enjoyed using and developing it. If at any point you aren’t sure what to do or are confused about something, have a look at the help files via the Help menu up top. Journler Help is extensive, and you’ll learn a lot just browsing through it.

Philip Dow, Journler developer

• http://journler.phildow.net.

Follow these 4 steps to place an outline enabled blogroll in your weblog template.

But here’s the rub: WordPress’ system for messing with your blog design and site functionality is powerful, but can be confusing and awkward until you figure out how all the pieces fit together.

Every week, I get emails from potential clients who all want to know one thing: How much for a design? Nine times out of ten, my answer causes them to run for the hills. Scary thing is, based on industry buzz, my prices could actually be considered totally reasonable by comparison. Don’t believe me? Well, today you get the whole scoop – my prices, their prices, and my always-priceless editorial commentary on the subject :-)

Enter Really Easy Field Validation. It lets you do the following with your form elements, using the class attribute to indicate what kind of validation is needed (assumes Prototype 1.5, included with Script.aculo.us 1.6.1):