Now I've never considered myself an expert blogger, or now how to magically put your newly published blog post on the front page of Digg. Though I have been looking at the various mechanics of blogging and the numbers in the background. What I have been more interested in recently has to do with daily visitors and the time of day they tend to visit my sites. I have been thinking … Continue Reading »
If you're running a self-hosted WordPress blog and notice you have multiple updates available for your installed plugins, have you ever wondered how it was done? Have you ever wondered if it was safe to allow for the Automatic Upgrade of your plugins? Well, I recently looked through my WordPress plugins that needed to be updated and was a bit hesitant to try it out. Though I bite the bullet … Continue Reading »
One of the most popular ways to stay up to date with your favorite website is by subscribing to an RSS Feed for that particular website. New content that is published by your favorite websites can "delivered" to you by the means of an RSS feed. You subscribe to these RSS feeds via a news aggregator, one which I highly recommend would be Google Reader. Previously I have been playing around … Continue Reading »
Now not everyone is going to care what I have been up to but some people might notice a slip in postings here on this blog. Don't be alarmed! I am still around I have been working on some other things. For those who might be curious as to what I have been doing over the past little bit I'll share it with you. WestCoastAlpine Over at WestCoast Alpine I did do … Continue Reading »
Twitter is one of the newest and most popular services out right now in the online world. It works great for Social Media and if you're an avid user of Twitter you should think about what your going to tweet out there to the world. For the most part Twitter is a great way to keep in touch with people within a particular industry online but there can be the … Continue Reading »
For those who are relatively new to WordPress and the administration section of a self-hosted WordPress blog, there is one great security tip that majority of people will tell you right away: Ditch that Admin account ASAP! Though for those who are not setting up a new blog and are using the default 'admin' username still (shame on you) should also look at changing this too. I thought at first it … Continue Reading »
Most readers of my blog will know I have many passions in life (one of which is my relationship with Robyn) though recently, the other two I have been focusing as well, is photography and snowboarding. It looks like those two passions of mine are going to fuse together this weekend up at Cypress Mountain; LG Snowboard WorldCup 2009. Robyn and I first learned about the WorldCup Event up at Cypress … Continue Reading »
One of the aspects of web development and design, or even blogging is trying to find photos which you can use without having to pay for them or paying very little for. Today on Twitter there was a mentioning of a stock photography website that I believe many people might find useful when trying to find stock images for their web layouts or even blog posts. That website is FreeDigitalPhotos.net … Continue Reading »
Every so often I like to look at various aspects of my blog and tinker with them. It's nice to change things up a little bit but after doing a new blog theme for my site, Robyn pointed out the new layout lacked some items it previously had that she liked. The Categories on the sidebar and the Navigation links on the single page. I remember reading (not that I remember … Continue Reading »
Well another month has come and gone in 2009 and normally that means I like to write about my stats of the previous month here at Tyler Ingram dot Com. January has been a pretty busy month for me due to finishing up my move, getting in as much snowboarding time as Robyn and I can and various other activities. Though what I like seeing is the trend of my … Continue Reading »