WordPress

Short description: WordPress is a Blog tool and Weblog platform. You canyou’re your own wordpress account in seconds or install it on your own domain. Wordpress is easy to use and custmoise and one which I definelt recommend. Thers are hundreds of themes to choose from and plugin that make creating a professional blog so easy. Some of the features include password protected posts, importing, typographical niceties, multiple authors, bookmarklets, permalinks.
Homepage: http://wordpress.org/

Blogger

Short description: Blogger is easy-to-use web site, where you can quickly post thoughts; interact with people, and more.
Homepage: https://www.blogger.com/

b2evolution

Short description: A blog script featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs.
Homepage: http://b2evolution.net/

Nucleus

Short description: A powerful blog script featuring multiple blogs, multiple authors, drafts and future posts, bookmarklets.
Homepage: http://nucleuscms.org/

pMachine Free

Short description: This is a features limited version of pMachinePro.
Homepage: http://www.pmachine.com/

If you use any other blogging platform and would like to see it listed here then please leave me a comment and I will add it to the list.

In order to use VoIP and make calls all around the world from a computer to a phone, this is the VoIP requirements list:

VoIP requirements list for PC to Phone:

• A computer
• An account with a VoIP provider click here for a list of top 5 VoIP providers
• One of the following: headset microphone, speakers and a microphone, internet phone, a VoIP router or an ATA with a standard phone
• A broadband connection
• ADSL modem

Click here to download it now.

1. Double click on your FileZilla icon  from your desktop. Once you have done so, you should see the following:
   
2. Complete the following boxes (below the header at the top of the screen):Address - The URL of your blog/website (don’t include http:// at the beginning)
   User - your ftp username
   Password - your ftp password
   Port - Leave Blank or enter 21 (it should by default enter this automatically)
3. Click Quickconnect! You are now connected to your ftp account.
   
4. Double click on the WWW directory folder located on the right hand side so that the directory is opened. If you have a registered domain on your account then the “index.html” file should be within your “www/yourdomain.com/” directory.  “index.html” will be the main page of your site.
   If you use Wordpress and have a registered domain on your account then the Wordpress files can be accessed using the following path /www/wp-content/themes/ and select your theme folder. You will find all the php, css and image files for your Wordpress site in there. For more help you can watch a demo “how to upload Wordpress plugins and templates with Filezilla“.
5. From the left hand side of the FileZilla program, you will need to search for your files on your computer in which you would like to upload to your site under “Local Site“.
6. Highlight all of the files you wish to upload and then DRAG them over to an open area on the right hand side of the FileZilla program so that you will upload the files into an area inside your WWW directory.  PLEASE NOTE: If you are using Wordpress then you will need to upload these files into www/wp-content/themes/your theme folder.
7. Your files will upload instantly onto your site. A message will appear at the top above the local site to let you know if the upload was successful.
8. That’s all there is to it - EASY!If you have any questions about FileZilla or need further help, please leave a comment at the end of this post and I will respond.

Filezilla: Watch a demo to help you download, install and configure Filezilla

 

For more help or information please leave comment.

You can download a Wordpress plugin that will automatically generate and publish Technorati Tags and HTML Meta Keywords based on the full content of your post.
Once generated, tags can be manually edited to ensure the tags are relevant to the content. Manually editing your tags is recommended because if you have written a post about Ipods and have not mentioned a term, such as “Apple” then it will not appear as a tag, so there’s an audience group that you’re possibly missing.
The plugin is called AutoMeta and it can be downloaded here

You will see a link included to each theme’s home page as well as a download link.

The screen shots you see have been taken from the screen grabs of blogs running the specific theme.

Feel free to leave comments and recommendation of any of these themes or any that you use that you would like to see added to the list.

1. Silver Lexus | Download






2. Vistererd Little | Download



3. WP-Andreas | Download



4. Cordobo Green Park | Download



5. Mandigo | Download



6. Cutline 3-Column Split | Download



7. Tiga | Download



8. Andreas04 | Download



9. Light | Download



10. DFire | Download



11. Orange Crush | Download



12. Black Minimailsm | Download



13. Glued Ideas Subtle | Download



14. Waterlily | Download



15. Wucoco Three Column | Download



16. Rounded V2 Blue Edition | Download



17. 1024PX | Download



18. FallSeason | Download



19. Big Blue | Download



20. Talian | Download



21. Pop Blue | Download



22. Freshy | Download

You can go login to your account, click the “Settings” tab and then select “Flavors.”

You can choose from (13) different widget colors.  You no longer have to only use our original “black” widget design that many users thought was ugly! 

Now you can select a color that more closely matches the look of your blog.

HERE’S THE BEST PART…

You don’t have to copy and paste new code to your blog.  Just go to that “Flavors” section for your account, select the flavor you want,  then hit the “APPLY FLAVOR” button.  That’s it!

Blog Post Controls

Under the “Settings” tab you’ll also find a new option called, “My Post Control.”  Here’s what this awesome new feature does…

You can create POST FILTERS for your blog posts…

For example, you can add a keyword or phrase and create a new post filter.  If you ever create a post on your blog  that contains one of those keywords in the TITLE of your blog post, that post WILL *NOT* BE SHOWN ACROSS THE NETWORK.  And you won’t use any of your syndication credits!

Visit Blogrush.com

PREPARE FOR *BIG* CHANGES!  (TWO MAJOR CHANGES ARE NOW LIVE.)

100% manual blog review

BlogRush will now manually review every single new blog that registers to participate in the BlogRush Network. One of the things they will be doing is applying some quality guidelines and criteria to their decision-making process and if a blog does not meet their guidelines and criteria, THEY WILL BE REJECTED from the network and not allowed to join. 
a lot more categories!
BlogRush are going to be significantly expanding their directory of categories to increase the relevancy of post links appearing in the widget on your blog — this will also increase click-rates (and traffic) for all members.

Improved reporting!

The current Dashboard stats are being under-reported for all users right now.  This is the reason that users show discrepancies when looking at Google Analytics data (or other stats packages).  BlogRush is currently sending more traffic to their users than they are reporting in the Dashboard because they are giving all users bonus credits everyday.  BlogRush will soon be reporting all bonus credit activity so all the numbers will be accurate.

SPECIAL NOTE TO ALL LOW-TRAFFIC MEMBERS

In the near future BlogRush will be giving low-traffic members (those that need more traffic the most) the BULK of their bonus credit allocations.  You’ll get a ton more bonus credits than high-traffic members because you really need it.  It’s only FAIR!

Improved network distribution

A few of BlogRush users have noticed that they’re building up credits faster than the system is using them.  This will eventually balance itself out as the network continues to “adjust” to the growth levels and traffic patterns of each category — because BlogRush network provides syndication distribution based on daily average “cycles” and then adjusts moving into the future; so it’s able to accurately predict how fast to use a certain user’s credits, etc. — as compared to just using them all “as fast as possible.”

• Full and complete Atom 1.0 support, including the publishing protocol.
• We’re using the new jQuery whis is “800% faster.”
• Behind the user-facing tags system is a really kickass taxonomy system which, which adds a ton of flexibility. It’s probably the biggest schema upgrade since version 1.5.
• The importers have been revamped to be more memory efficient, and you can now add an importer through a plugin.
• Through hooks and filters you can now override the update system, the dashboard RSS feeds, the feed parser, and tons more than you could in 2.2.
• The new $wpdb->prepare() way of doing SQL queries.
• Finally there were over 351 tickets in Trac closed for this release, with over a hundred people contributing. This is the polish, the hundreds of tiny bug fixes and features that make WordPress what it is.

Before you upgrade you may want to check out our Preparing for 2.3 post.