Darren Rowse

In a guest post, Neil Matthews of WPDude.com writes about how comment spammers and trolls can be banished from your site by blocking their IP address using the .htaccess file. Are you plagued by spammers and trolls inside of the comments section of your blog? If you are, I want ...more

This post is task #32 (a bonus one) in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge. Your task today is to rework the title of the next post that you write OK – so you need to have a post written before you can do this one but ...more

In August 2006 I realized that I was regularly getting two types of email requests: Companies looking to hire bloggers Bloggers looking to be hired by companies As a result I decided to start a Job Board for Bloggers. The concept was simple. Those looking to hire bloggers could place ...more

In this post Ali Hale from the Office Diet shares some tips on how to make money from blogging by being a ‘Staff Blogger’. Learn more about Ali in the footer of this post. You started a blog with the dream of making a living from writing about something you ...more

image by s-revenge If you’ve got a spare 10 minutes today check out Eyetrack III who have published some great findings in their latest eye tracking studies of news and multimedia content sites (found via Direct Creative Blog). There’s loads of juicy goodness in the full article but here are ...more

Our last poll asked readers whether they preferred light or dark backgrounds in blog design. The results were: The majority like ‘Light’ backgrounds but a fair chunk of readers think it depends upon the blog design.

Yesterday I spent most of the day at a conference here in Melbourne called the Future Summit. My role was ‘guest twitterer’ on the official Twitter account for the summit for a few of the sessions. The presentation that I found most helpful today was by Alison Sander from Boston ...more

Today, Amir Helzer from WPML (WordPress Multilingual) shares his experience building a custom WordPress theme. In my previous post, I talked about what I do when commissioning custom WordPress theme design. It left where the job started. In this post, I’ll talk about the steps that follow – working with ...more

Today, Amir Helzer from WPML (WordPress Multilingual) shares his experience building a custom WordPress theme. When you’re designing your blog all sorts of options are open to you – starting with a free theme (that you can later edit), through a premium customizable theme (like Thesis or Revolution2) and ending ...more