Running a large-scale blog can be a lot of work. If you gain a large readerbase, and are barely keeping up with writing posts, and managing others’ posts if you’re the editor of a multi-author blog, how are you going to find the time to do other things, like redesign the blog when the time [...]

We’ve updated our web countdown for the Half-Blood Prince movie, which you can paste into your blog/Facebook/MySpace/etc, to reflect the release date change. Our Mac OS X Dashboard widgets have been fixed as well. A new version of the HBP Countdown widget has been uploaded (update yours by downloading the new version and opening the zipped [...]

Neil Gaiman is a crossover author. He writes fantasy for adult and young adult and graphic novels. My interest was piqued by positive reviews. I decided to select American Gods for this month after reading a teacher’s discussion of using the book in her high school class. I would only recommend for YA if the [...]

Prolific plugin author Joost de Valk has put together a WordPress plugin that’s simple in function and insanely useful. Are you a member of Amazon Associates? Amazon’s widely-used affiliate program can be an effective way to monetize a blog, especially if the blog publishes book reviews, or something of the sort. However, it’s a bit of [...]

If you were to create a bare minimum XHTML document, with no CSS applied, and fill it with various elements (a few paragraphs, a heading or two, etc), you’ll notice that web browsers have default formatting for everything. Paragraphs have a certain amount of space between them, the body tag has default padding, etc. This, of [...]