Whoo hoo! There’s a new HTML5 theme for WordPress called Toolbox that allows you to take advantage of all the geeky goodness of HTML 5 today. More here on the WordPress blog: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/new-theme-toolbox/ or download the theme from the WordPress theme directory.
ProBlogger has an excellent post by award-winning SEO and viral marketing scientist Dan Zarrella. Among his findings are the best time of day and best day of the week for posting. If you want to get the maximum impact from each post and build your traffic, this is a must read.
The benefits of WordPress include its global user community who contribute to the code base and to the support of the platform. And one of the best resources available to users is WordPress.tv, a site dedicated to video tutorials about the platform.
Whether you’re just learning WordPress for the first time or refreshing your sills after a blogging hiatus, this is where you want to start:
Saving and returning to draft posts and pages
Nothing stries fear into the heart of the blogosphere more than finding a Google malware warning (or worse) where your website used to be. And as you can tell from the illustration here it’s happened to us, so we speak from experience.
Unfortunately cyber crime and harassment is a fact of life but fortunately there’s something you can do about it. First, some definitions are in order:
Badware is software that fundamentally disregards a user’s choice about how his or her computer or network connection will be used. Some badware is specifically designed for criminal, political, and/or mischievous purposes. This type of badware is often referred to as malware, and includes viruses, Trojans, rootkits, spam bots, and other varieties.
Some badware is not malicious in its intent, but still fails to put the user in control. Consider, for example, a browser toolbar that helps you shop online more effectively but neglects to mention that it will send a list of everything you buy online to the company that provides the toolbar.
Another example is when you install a piece of software, and that software installs additional software that you weren’t expecting. This can be especially troubling if the additional software does something undesirable or doesn’t uninstall when you remove the original software. [Read more at Stop Badware].
To go further here are some starting points to understand and remedy the situation:
Feeling like this is too much to deal with? That’s why The Brooklyn Blogfather is here! Contact us today with details about your malware attack. We’ll evaluate the situation and get back to you with a time line for fixing the problem.
While the city’s sidewalks have been melting and even at the shore life under the boardwalk more appealing than being on the beach, the Brooklyn Blogfather has been ripping it up, building and launching six new sites this summer.
Dr. Bruce Weinstein’s new site TheEthicsGuy.com features his Bloomberg BusinessWeek columns, CNN and FOX appearances, an online quiz and estore is the most recent addition and already traffic is up — way up — compared with the previous site. The most popular feature that’s driving a lot of the traffic is The Ethics Quiz. Want to find out your ethical IQ? Take the test now and find out!
Other recently completed projects include the Women’s City Club of New York new site, Two-Lap Books for Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers, a site for national radio/web programming consultant Denise Oliver, Jeremy Ross’ new blog The View from Silicon Beach and, launching soon, a completely redesigned site for the intellectual property law firm Reavis Parent Lehrer LLP.
