David and I are back to answer more bloggers questions! Episode 2 sees us tucking into Blog Networks, Expression Engine vs. Wordpress (with input from the legendary Andy Clarke), letting people post to your blog (and David shows us with a snazzy plugin).
We’ve even got some out-takes right at the end!
The guys over at Performancing have just released Simplicity, a premium quality Wordpress theme designed and built by us.
It’s clean and easy-to-use layout harnesses effective typography, subtle stylisations and balanced proportions to make for a beautiful Wordpress theme. Features include native Tagging, Gravatar and Widget support.
The Performancing team think the theme “would do very well as a financial blog as well as tech and web 2.0. It would also work well for any environmental or “green” themed blog”. We agree!
Check out Simplicity over at Performancing now »
What do you get when you mix a professional blogger, a blog designer, Skype and some sound bytes from law & order? The FourFourNiner of course!
David and I got together on Skype last week to answer all your questions about blogging and bring you the very first FourFourNiner. In this episode we cover all kinds of things, from SEO to relocating blogs and even how to get a job as a blogger. It’s an action packed 30 minutes and guess what… There’ll be more next week!
Here are a few links which we mentioned in the show:
and also thanks to everyone that supplied questions: Grant, Andrew, Titus Ferguson, and Kate Smith.
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My friends, it gives me great pleasure to announce SpringLoaded, the 449’s very first free theme! With support for Widgets, Gravatars and a handful of other nifty plugins, SpringLoaded is one sexy little number designed and built by the 449!
Chris (Rowe, visually gifted) worked his magic on the design and Indranil brought code excellence to the table once more (despite a very challenging layout) to ensure a fantastic and highly functional theme.
Check out the full demo or download it and give your blog a spring kick!
We’ve got many more themes in the pipeline, including some awesome premium ones which will be both amazingly good and highly affordable, so stay tuned!
So I’ve been working on restructing the 449 site a little this morning, we originally put it together in about a day, so I’ve been working on giving it a better “flow” and generally tidying up the code. The only thing that’s been causing me an irritation is that, for some obscure reason, the wordpress conditional tag is_home() doesn’t appear to return TRUE on the homepage :S So in the sidebar where I want to serve up the “Great content needs a great design” call-to-action when you’re on the homepage, but no other pages, I’ve had to invent a little hack:
What this is doing is checking the “REQUEST_URI”, the appended part of the URL (eg/ “/about/” or “/contact/”), and making sure it’s not empty or “/” (which would point to the homepage). It’s a filthy dirty hack, but for now it gets the job done 
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