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 [...]

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 [...]

Web 2.0 web sites are all designed a similar way now a days. There are gradients, rounded corners, pastel colors, footers, glossy buttons and logos and just all of the simple stuff with a touch of style. Instead of digging into the nitty gritty behind the design of most of these web sites I will [...]

By now you have heard the term Web 2.0 numerous times. And if your still stumped as to what exactly Web 2.0 is, I have created a 5 step guide that explains the various aspects of the term. Part 1 will cover the question, What Exactly Is Web 2.0? Look for the other parts of [...]

Most likely due to the theme I’m using, the MyBlogLog widget that I was using ended up with two title areas. One, which was placed right into the widget itself, and the other, was a blank title area which is above every other widget by default. It’s been a visual nagging problem and today, I [...]