There are a number of ways to connect to my weekly podcast on Talkshoe called WordPress Weekly such as a landline, cell phone, or skype out. However, I commonly refer to using a SIP client such as Project Gizmo or X-Lite. Since X-Lite is the program I prefer, this tutorial will focus on installing and [...]

I was recently contacted by a reader of this blog who needed help with installing the MyBlogLog widget that displays on this site, into his own blog. So, I decided to write it up as a blog post to explain to him and anyone else that might be wondering.
The first thing on our agenda are [...]

For those that can not afford the luxury of owning Adobe Photoshop, I came across a nice video tutorial which explains how to make a web 2.0 styled logo within The Gimp. The tutorial goes into creating a text based logo and then modifying the text so that it looks like a reflection. FDivisions walks [...]

For those that haven’t noticed, I have added my own personal LinkRoll or LinkBlog to the left hand sidebar of this site. This link blog can be subscribed to independently of the blog and will contain links that I find interesting that I come across within my feed reader. I have created this tutorial which [...]

Each time I reformat my machine, one of things I like to do is make sure I enable Image Previews within the MyComputer windows explorer view. Each time I want to enable this feature, I can’t seem to remember the process. Here, I’ll document the option you need to change to make sure this feature [...]

Digg is filled with a ton of cool stuff alongside a ton of crap. The best way to filter through all of the crap is to use RSS feeds. Digg offers an RSS feed for each category that is covered on the website. Although this type of filtering is great, I think it’s better to [...]

If you spend any amount of time in the blogosphere, you’ll realize that filling in the details for the Name, Email, and URL fields repeatedly, becomes tiring. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to save time by auto filling those fields by using a FireFox Extension.

As a blogger, it’s imperative that you take an [...]

Ok to end this series I will simply post a link to an O’Reilly article that goes into non-technical details as to what web2.0 is supposed to entail. After reading this final article you should have a very clear understanding as to what web 2.0 actually is. So without further a due here it is [...]

Plain old search just isn’t good enough for Web 2.0 – we now have tags as well. Not to be confused with HTML tags, these are labels that authors and readers can add to web content. Tagging works because it enables users to classify content themselves. This empowers search engines, as they’re better able to [...]

Today we will review the technologies that are empowering these inspirational websites throughout the web 2.0 universe. We won’t be covering every single one but we will cover the technologies that most sites are running under the hood.
Ajax

The first of these technologies is Ajax or AJAX. Ajax is short for Asynchronous Javascript and XML [...]