How can a small time blog aggregator hope to compete against the big boys?

October 19, 2009

It has been two years since I set up my Finance aggregator blog. It started with my interest in reading local finance blogs because I am able to relate to them as compared to those written by the professionals. As the number of blogs that I read  grew, I experimented on different RSS feeds readers [...]

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Can’t press “enter” in address bar (Mozilla Firefox)

October 18, 2009

I encountered the above problem after I have upgraded to Firefox 3.5x.  After disabling all plug-ins and doing a clean installation of Firefox several times, I finally found the problem -  my free version of AVG. To be more specific, the problem is with AVG’s SafeSearch extension.
There is a discussion thread here and the problem [...]

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Wordpress Migration 101

October 11, 2009

I have recently migrated my wordpress site to a new webhost and although my web-host provided me with a quick start guide, it will still be beneficial for me and other Wordpress users if there is specific set of instructions for Wordpress migration. As an IT geek, we call this “Documentation” and this is something [...]

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Thesis Theme Discount Code

October 11, 2009

In my earlier post, I  mention that we should make full use of discount coupon/ code. Unfortunately, as of this moment, there isn’t any for Chris Pearson Thesis theme for wordpress. Kind of makes me wonder why is there still a coupon code text box.
However all is not lost. Being such a popular theme, there [...]

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The best location for your website tracker code in Wordpress

October 10, 2009

It’s always the same set of instructions -  place this code in the index.htm or index.html between the <body> and </body> tags or to download and install the plugin. It’s not exactly troublesome but I’m looking at a more future-proof option.
<body> Tag
For wordpress this means going to /wp-content/themes/, choose the current theme and insert [...]

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Don’t Let The Discount Coupon Go To Waste

October 10, 2009

While registering for my domain name, I notice that there is a “Coupon Code” text field. I brushed it off since I do not have the code but during my third domain registration in a week, it suddenly hit me that if there is password crack for software and websites, there should be something similar [...]

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