My Life With IT

Over at Ashwin’s blog, you will find one crazy blog owner!! You can win $2500!! To enter just copy this text and paste it in your blog!! But hurry, this competition will not last long! So get posting!

Deadline is 20 Aug 2007 (Am I too late for it? I hope not.)

I have PayPal, so does that increase my chances?

Update: It was a huge scam. Contest Blogger has this post. Supposed to use new domain.

I’ve moved my to a new sub domain here. This will no longer be updated. Unfortunately, I don’t have any credits and don’t wish to waste any to redirect this URL to my new site. So, please update your feeds and links.

I have registered my domain name! Now, the next step is to register with Dreamhost and find some WordPress themes to try out on a test host. Here’s the list of sites that contain WordPress themes. Do take a look at their copyright issues and usage issues too.

• Theme Viewer - By WordPress.org
• WordPress Extended Themes
• WordPress Themes
• N.Design Studio WordPress themes
• Just Skins
• WordPress Theme Park
• Theme Porter
• Alex King Theme Browser - I can select the dropdown box and the theme will be in demo. Cool.
• Template Monster WordPress Themes
• Themess Base
• Free WP Themes
• WP Designer

I think I just overloaded myself on the themes.

Previously I wrote about managing your comments. One of it was using CAPTCHA. This, however, is taking it far too secure and hard to read. If it makes it that difficult to read in order to input, then how to verify? I have come across such sites and no longer go there because I can’t understand what they want me to input. It looked like an ‘M’ to me but it’s not, it’s actually ‘NN’. Sheesh.

Published something that you felt was perfect to you online? Every blog has a comments section, for each post, you can turn the comments on or off, well, for WordPress anyway. There times when comments left on your post were hurtful and totally refute your point of view. While some are pointing out their views, others may not be and try to be abusive.

You get hurt and upset because of such abusive comments and feel like closing down your blog after that. Trust me, I’ve seen a few. How do you manage your comments then? Here are 5 things you must do.

1. Word verifications - Boy, I love them. It’s a hassle to the user but you don’t want spam comments that don’t contribute to your post at all. Now, if only this plugin can be used here.
2. Moderate comments - Some love to market their blogs that sell things, are they helpful at all?
3. Publish both negative and positive comments - I have done that unless they are spam.
4. Reply to commentors - I try to if I know what to say which is often not that difficult.
5. Payback the commentors - I visit their blogs and put my comments whenever I can.

Do read the link that I provided because there are many more tips on How to Live Online.

I’ve been brainstorming for my domain name and boy, is it difficult. The one that I want is take. Even .net, .org, .com, .info, .at, .be, etc. T_T Depressing, right? I like it because it symbolises something to me. Unfortunately, got company already have it. So, I have to source for other domain names. Another way is to snatch an expiring domain name. I wonder.

Choosing the right domain name is really important because you’ll be stuck with it at least a year. Here’s the write-up on why. It’s also recommended why buying the same domain with different variations will prevent others from going to other sites than yours. The best part about Dreamhost is that it supports multiple domains. Local hosts, don’t. GAH!

My problem is that I want subdomains later and this domain will serve as a jumping board for the rest of my blogs. Now, I go see if I can go snatch some old domains.