Understanding the difference between pages and posts can help you build a great website using wordpress.com or other blogging platforms. Have a look at this site i am building in wordpress.com for a local school Kate Greenaway Nursery (it isn’t finished yet). It is mainly built of pages. So it feels like a traditional website with [...]
Archive for October 9, 2009
Anger, enthusiasm and deadlines: how to harness people's motivations
Many people running sites struggle with participation, because people don’t naturally leap up and say “Let me at it!” Writing for any publication brings with it the possibility of retribution and ridicule, so it’s not something people take on without a special motivation. Three of these are anger, enthusiasm or the fact that somebody is [...]
The more the merrier – a team for your website
The more people you have contributing to a local website the better it reflects local views. In Kings Cross I have about six authors who write articles for the site – three regular contributors three irregular. We all have quite different backgrounds and varying community interests. This makes the site appeal to more people and [...]
Use Delicious to create an RSS feed
If you’ve discovered the joys of RSS, you might now be frustrated to discover that not all sites have them. The good news is, you can create your own using the social bookmarking service Delicious. It’s an easy way of adding new links to several sites at the same time and drawing content from several [...]
Instant newsfeeds: a really simple guide to RSS
Put very simply, RSS is a way to pull out the newest headlines from most database-driven websites, including those built in WordPress and Blogger and Twitter streams. Many news websites also make RSS feeds available. They are a way of subscribing to new content through a feed reader, but here we are concentrating on using [...]