Category: Weblog Tools

  • Apture toolbar: a model of popup discretion

    If you’re a regular visitor to this blog, you’ll know that it’s “enhanced with Apture.” Well, you may not know that, actually. But you will have experienced Apture when you’ve clicked on certain links that show you information as elegant…

  • Little trust in Technorati

    Is Technorati worth anyone’s attention any more? I ask because I no longer have much faith in the accuracy of their data where Technorati’s information about your own site is different depending on where you see it. Here’s what I…

  • Thesis tweaks with a little community help

    About 15 months ago, I implemented the Thesis theme for WordPress on this blog. It’s  a premium theme (you pay for it) and a powerful one as it gives you access to the means to customize many aspects of the…

  • Upgrades to WordPress and the Thesis theme

    A new version of WordPress was released last week and I’ve upgraded this blog to that version, 2.8.5. As always, I followed my 6 tips to upgrading WordPress to ensure a smooth and trouble-free upgrade. The WordPress developers say that…

  • Paying attention to your referrers

    I was just studying the stats from Google Analytics that display within my blog’s WordPress admin dashboard, and noticing where visitors tend to come from. This isn’t geographical so it’s not countries I’m talking about. No, it’s the referring site…