Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

Hmm, well I sure hate to classify myself, but… this looks like a site I will need to frequent! ha! This is a site by fellow Entrecarder and CMF member, Lindsayanng. She’s a “girlie geek” who has tutorials about web design, and often reviews other blogs. She’s turning the tables a little– holding a contest [...]

The latest version of WordPress, the much-acclaimed and much-publicized version 2.7, is finally available to the general public. I’ve been a WordPress user for over a year now, and I’ve suffered through six or seven upgrades to the software. I REALLY hope this is the last upgrade for a while. It has become quite a [...]

Over the weekend, I had some technical problems with my other blog, New York Traveler.net. The comments features on the blog were totally unoperational. A day previously, I had updated the Akismet plugin (Akismet is a software plugin that traps spam comments on blogs). I couldn’t be sure that the Akismet plugin was related to [...]

Yep, Google is in the news again. And they’ve got a new thing going again. They’ve created a blog tracking service, which is basically a listing of blogs that Googlebot has crawled, and presents blog discussions by topics. For example, let’s say you wanted to know what bloggers were saying about a particular acne treatment; [...]

You’ve heard it said again and again and AGAIN. Lose the weight or get on diet pills. No no– kidding! What you’ve really heard it said over and over again is always BACK UP YOUR BLOG! This is so important. A fellow blogger recently lamented that she tried to update to WordPress 2.6, but something [...]