FlatPress Blog Engine Guide

Advice from Tim Ferriss on Blogging

davidb.website@gmail.com (David) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:44:56 +0200

Tim Ferriss (author and active blogger) discusses blogging and how to setup your web site to improve readership. His presentation from 2009 San Francisco WordCamp is available on his blog site. In it he provides tips on blogging and changes he made to his blog site to increase readership. The presentation is 50 minutes long and is stuffed with tips for all bloggers. During the last half on the presentation, he answers questions from the audience providing even more helpful advice.

How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself

To view the presentations for other speakers at WordCamp 2009, visit these links:

How to: Add FeedFlare Social Bookmarks

davidb.website@gmail.com (David) — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:29:05 +0200

Having Social Bookmark links on your site encourages visitors to bookmark specific posts. This makes your site known to other member of the social bookmark service, which can increases visitors to your site. It can also improve your sites rating on search engines. Currently, FlatPress has no widget to add these links. There are a couple of themes, which include icon links to the more popular social bookmark sites. However, if you want to create your own custom set of quick links you will need to modify these themes yourself.

Another way to accomplish this is to use the Feedburner account add-on FeedFlare. This add-on allows you to select from a variety of social bookmarks you can add to your posts. After setting up an account and selecting social bookmarks, you will add a java script to your site’s theme. The process is same as adding Adsense ads to the bottom of your post. If you later decide to change which social bookmark links you want on your post, you only need to change your FeedFlare settings in your FeedBurner account. Then after a some time your changes will show up on your posts. You do not need to change java code you already added to your theme.

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How to: Add Translation Widgets to your Site

davidb.website@gmail.com (David) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:17:30 +0100

Translation widgets make web and blog sites more multilingual accessible by helping visitors read web pages in their native language. These widgets provide a link on a web page that a visitor uses to submit it to an automated web page translation site. For example Google Translator, Yahoo Babel Fish, and Microsoft translator are all sites that can be used to to translate web pages.

Listed in this post are nine free translation widgets you can add to your site. They primarily differ in languages supported, means of choosing a language, and translation sites. Each widget is active in this post so you can try each one to help in choosing a widget. Many of these widgets have different versions available at their site.

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Wikipedia FlatPress Article

davidb.website@gmail.com (David) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:12:54 +0100

I noticed there was no Wikipedia article for FlatPress. Therefore, after getting NoWhereMan’s permission, I created one. It is short and simple with the possibility of some mistakes. Currently, it is lacking some references that appear in reliable third-party publications. These are needed to validate the article and prevent possible future deletion. If anyone knows of any references, please let me know so I can add them to the article.

You are welcome to update the article if you want. Otherwise, I will update it if you provide me the changes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlatPress

How to: Create Floating Advertisements

davidb.website@gmail.com (David) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:24:05 +0100

Merging advertisements with web content is often referred to as “floating ads”, “embedding ads”, and “blending in ads”. FlatPress makes it easy to embed images with content. To accomplish this with advertisements will take some HTML magic.
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