Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
I installed the Now Reading plugin written by Rob Miller to display the books I am currently reading in my sidebar. The reason I chose this plugin is because it allows you to create a database of your books and offers reviewing possibilities. Installing and configuring the plugin was easy but after adding my first… Read more Now Reading plugin, CSS and WordPress theme compatibility problems
I recently redesigned my blog because I was not completely satisfied with the old look. I thought it was a bit too dark and a bit too messy. Instead of starting from the scratch and building my own theme I adjusted the Coffee Spot theme I was using. There is one main reason why I… Read more Design update and thoughts on coding
I have decided to try to blog daily about blogging and blog software to get the thesis writing process going. I am writing about blogging and blogging software using word processing software and this doesn’t seem logical. Not only does my mind turn blank whenever I open my thesis document in Open Office I am… Read more Thoughts on using WordPress as a thesis writing tool instead of OpenOffice
I have a question for all you die-hard bloggers out there: before there was blogging software, such as WordPress, how did you blog? Manually writing HTML and uploading it with FTP? Manually writing PHP? This question is related to my MA research on Blogs and Blogging Software (with a focus on WordPress) and I am… Read more Blogging before the age of blog software
Lorelle has another Blog Challenge: Testing Your Blog’s Development These are my results. Most of them don’t surprise me (I am a nobody in blogland), except for results of the keyword analysis. Tomorrow I will check the statistics of our Masters of Media site. Live PageRank Alexa Rank: 2,777,061 Google Backlinks: ~21 Average PR: 1.1… Read more Lorelle’s Blog Challenge: Testing Your Blog’s Development
Thanks to Zenphoto and the ZenPress WordPress plugin I have finally put some of my photos online! This clean looking gallery and nicely working plugin were brought to my attention by Lorelle’s great and extensive post on WordPress Plugins for Images, Photographs, and Graphics. I ditched Gallery 2 (way too much hassle to manually remove… Read more Photo gallery online