CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

I’ve been meaning to mention this for a few days but keep getting distracted but the desktop blog editor Qumana has been released in a version 3 beta. The good thing from my perspective is that version 3 is able to be used with Macs (something many other similar tools ...more

If you’re looking to put a favicon (one of those little pictures that sites next to a URL in your browser) on your blog but don’t know how to make one you might like to play with the Favicon from Pics tool. All you do is enter a picture and ...more

If you’re looking to promote your blog through advertising but don’t have a budget for it you might want to look at a new service that Rojo (a feed reader) is rolling out called FeedShare. The system is basically an automated ad swapping service where you place an AdSense like ...more

Do you Want to Improve Your Blog? Subscribe to ProBlogger Today for Free. As I mentioned yesterday, it seems that a new blogging tool or service is being released every day to help bloggers add a new feature to their blog. It can become quite overwhelming to choose between them ...more

It seems a new service is being launched every day being aimed at bloggers and today’s startup release is Stickam (not quite live yet but scheduled to launch today). Download Squad describe it as ‘a simple Flash tool for embedding video, pics, and audio in your website.’ They give up ...more

Speaking of Blog Platforms – Vanessa emailed me with this useful link for a page full of tutorials on using WordPress. It’s filled with all kinds of good tips and tutorials on many WP topics, from installing WordPress up, to explaining CSS, to thinking about making comments work well, to ...more

This post talks readers through some of the issues that they need to think through regarding choosing a blog platform. Update: please check out our more up to date post – How to Start a Blog for advice on blogging platforms and much more. ‘Which Blog Platform Should I use?’ ...more

The 3bubbles real time chat/comments for blogs that I mentioned a few days ago are up and running for us to play with on the 3bubbles blog (why they launched with a templated design is anybodies guess). Just go to the little Live Chat link at the end of posts ...more

NewsForge has an interesting piece on Must-have WordPress plugins which might help some of the bloggers who’ve been asking me about good plugins for WP lately. Found via Weblog Tools Collection