7 Essentials to Consider Before Starting A Blog

7 Essentials to Consider Before Starting Your New Blog

Launching a new blog is great ideas but it’s too hard when you start building it. Some people start but they also quit pretty soon. People have thousands of reasons on how and why they cannot keep blogging. Some people start a blog as a hobby and some just to share some information. I have also seen people who start a blog, write one post and then forget about it. The problem is that lot of blogs die pretty soon. So why do blogs die? I started my blog back in 2002, it has died a few times and changed the main languages but I was able to get it back up and running. Why are a lot of people not able to have a successful blog? To me it’s a totally exciting experience and I can’t wait to get started.
7 Essentials to Consider Before Starting A Blog
Setting up a blog is a fairly easy thing to get started. However, there are so many resources available to you that it can be overwhelming. To avoid such things and making your niche blog, I have produced my list of things that you should do/have before starting a blog.

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Author Information in Google Search Results

Complete guide show Author information in Google search results

I guess you may have already noticed that Google is showing author information (author’s Google+ profile) in it’s search results. If you haven’t already noticed then check out the sample queries – Matt Cutts, Linus Torvalds or Selena Gomez and Narga.
“Google Authorship” is one way that Google is tweaking the search results in order to improve the searching experience. Google displays the picture of the author right in the search results in order to help users to find great content.

Author Information in Google Search Results
Author Information in Google Search Results

As you can see from the example above, author information helps make your page look more professional with an eye-catching profile photo, your author name, a link to your profile on Google, and a “more articles by so-and-so” link.
How to do your website appearing in Google search results like that? Let’s do it with me!

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Quick WordPress Tips – Child theme URL and URI path

I encountered a problem with my child theme when I wanted to load some of my javascript files for the theme’s option which I kept with in the child theme so that the parent theme remains unchanged and all the development is also done in one directory.

Colorful Sliders With jQuery & CSS3

15 Unique jQuery Plugins For Everyones Needs

By default, the standard HTML element is pretty much annoying. It’s ugly. Almost project which I’ve done, I was asked to create a form that is far removed from the look of standard browser. It seems there are so many references and guides out there it’s easy to get lost. When it comes to adding JavaScript functionality to a website, jQuery has become the solution of choice for web designers and developers.
The great thing about jQuery is that talented jQuery developers often release new and useful plugins on a regular basis. jQuery plugins are not only easy to implement, but easy to maintain even when used throughout large sites. In this article, we share with you a list of 15 unique and useful jQuery plugins that were released recently that could help you for your next web project. It’s not popular but it’s very useful in projects of a single individual.

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Move from Wordpress.com to your own Wordpress.org self-host

Things to do when move your website from WordPress.com to self hosted

You’ve started your first blog on WordPress.com because the service was free, you weren’t required to have any technical skills and there were plenty of widgets, themes and plug-ins to help you quickly customize the blog. However, a time comes when you might want to move to your own domain name which is a continuance of your WordPress.com blog. Moving your WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted WordPress.org is actually more simple than you might believe! Sure there’s a few steps but all good things require a bit of work, right?
Move from WordPress.com to your own WordPress.org self-host

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Jetpack Wordpress.com Stats Configuration

How to hide The WordPress Stats Smiley Face

Automattic just released a collection of plugins as one “super-plugin” called Jetpack. As they explained it, the goal was to bring eight of the most requested features available on WordPress.com to the millions of self-hosted WordPress sites in one easy-to-install curated package. If you use JetPack Stats on your site (formerly released as a stand alone plugin called WordPress.com stats), you may be familiar with the smiley face image that it adds to the bottom of every page on your site.

Pattern Cooler

Top 10 Great Online Background Generator For Your Needs

We all know that backgrounds play a crucial role in a design. A lot goes in designing the backgrounds with different textures and patterns, choosing the right colors and a lot other factors. Not only the backgrounds but buttons, logos, scroll bars, texts, and a lot is important when it comes in designing and it does involve a lot of creativity and time to zero in the final one. While you could start every project by doing the same things again and again, the smart designers and developers know the importance of a well-developed workflow. One of the things that can accelerate and enhance your workflow are online generators.
I have listed all online free background pattern generators that can save you some time while providing great results.

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Top 5 quality and free web hosting services for staters

Top 5 quality and free web hosting service for staters

Building a website is as simple as write your words, design a layout and add all the content on an assigned web page, but on the completion of the website you will need a space over the net to upload it, here comes the role of web hosting services. If you are a beginner in setting up a website, then you could have visited a lot of different free and paid web hosting providers and you could still be confusing where to host your website. In fact, for beginners the idea of putting up a website free of charge could be an attractive idea.
As we all know that free web hosting is nothing new in the current online market, but still because of its several advantages it has been continuously doing great day by day. Free web hosting services is the best way to start for new clients who want a way to start their own business. But before starting to use these services you must have all the basic knowledge of hosting and affordable hosting services.

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Project Management

10 Open-Source & free Project Management tools

Managing projects is not an easy task. In fact, the need to use project management software is increasing by the day. Project management software is a term covering many types of software, including estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality management and documentation or administration systems, which are used to deal with the complexity of large projects.
Good Project Planning and Scheduling tools let you plan efficiently and effectively deploy the organization’s resources when they are needed. In this post we review about free or open source Project Management software (available on some platform) that let you plan, schedule and efficiently manage your project cost.

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