Peopleized

A couple of weeks ago, I came across an awesome website called Peopleized. Peopleized is a website that offers bloggers an awesome opportunity to meet new people and, at the same time, get fresh content for their website or blog. Peopleized provides a central place where bloggers can interview or be interviewed by their peers.

Changing Your WordPress Admin User Name

I’m a big fan of WordPress, however there are a few things about it that disturbs me. The number one being that every installation of WordPress assigns the same administrator login name. Not only that, there is no easy way to change your login name. This is just one way a hacker can invade your [...]

Writing Prompts: Endings

Most writing prompts challenge you to begin a story based on a premise. Today we are going to do things a little bit backwards. You can write the story however which way you want but the story has to end with one of the following lines.

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder, also known as Manic Depression, is considered by the psychiatric community to be a mood disorder and is classified as a mental illness. It is characterized by extreme and unpredictable shifts in mood as sufferers cycle through bouts of mania followed by depression.
Like most diseases, the severity of BD varies from person [...]

Idea Management: When It’s A Team Effort

Okay we already talked about how to organize your writing ideas and we’ve gone over the many ways in which you can keep track of them when you are away from your office. Now we are going to talk about different ways in which you can keep track of ideas while working on a collaborative [...]

Writing Prompts: Descriptions

This week we are going to focus on descriptions. Movies and television have it easy when it comes to describing things. All they need to do is project the image they want on the screen and the viewer instantly sees it. In books, however, it’s the descriptions that must do the heavy lifting of engaging [...]

Help! My Sidebar Disappeared

One of the most frequently posted design questions on blog forums and help sites has to do with the fact that the sidebar suddenly disappears after a user places something (usually an image) in their sidebar. There are a couple interrelated reasons for this.