Free Online Wordpress Theme Generator

If you plan to starta new Wordpress blog, or you are going to refresh design for your existingblog, you may be looking for the nice template, which may fit your format,color scheme, design, and structure. No problem, if you have knowledge andexperience on the web development, and you can make template for your blogexactly as you want. If you are not proficient on web design, or you have notime or interest in doing that yourself, there are multiple readymade templateson the Web, both free and commercial. But any template you find has limited setof the adjustments and changes you can make, so it is quite possible that yourblog appearance will look similar to thousands other blogs, using the sametemplate.

In this post, Iwould like to present free online services from Lubith.com, offering Wordpressthemes creator.

Main Features

• Intuitive interface. Move and resize the theme elements just by dragging the two knobs.
• No code required. You can design, edit and use your theme without needing to write a single line of code.
• Every theme is being kept on server for 7 days after your last save and then it will be erased. So, you can get back and make adjustments to the theme you have initially generated.
• You cannot work on several themes in parallel. If you reset the theme, the previous layout will be lost.

Installing your Theme in WordPress

• From WordPress admin panel, go to the Appearance ->Themes.
• Click the Install Themes tab (at the top).
• Click the Upload link.
• Browse for the zip file downloaded from Lubith and click Install Now button.
• Click the Activate theme link to activate the theme.

Website: http://www.lubith.com/

Feedburner launches new interface with several tracking stats.

Casually I logged into my Feedburner account without any real purpose. At the top, I saw the message 'Try new Beta version'. I obliged. I noticed a lot of changes.

My feeds were tracked and clicked monitored. I jumped with excitement when I noticed the feed of Laws of Universe blog is attracting several clicks. It is the top feed among the feeds of my other blogs.

To get more information on the traffic that my blog got, I clicked on the 'Feed name' and wow, there was so much information like from which countries the clicks originated and the traffic source such as feed subscriptions, social bookmarks and so on.

If you are in a hurry, you can view the new Feedburner interface at http://feedburner.google.com/gfb/

Put at least one log furniture in your house

Man, how I hated to part with a massive cot made of high quality log! My husband inherited it from his great grandfather who was a forest ranger during his period. When I moved into my in-law’s place after marriage, I openly appreciated their tasteful log furniture that looked very appealing to me.

Now, after so many years of serving us, the giant log bed begged to be put into the fireplace. During my 25 years of married life, I changed the bed furnishing more than 8 times. I enjoyed shopping for cushions and covers for the log furniture in my house that included a set of lounge chairs, a rocking easy chair apart from the big sized bed.

The smaller furniture had to be thrown out long back. My husband somehow managed to maintain the log bed but finally gave up.

Try to put at least one log furniture in your house and see the difference in the overall appearance of your home.

Don't waste time by commenting on blogs.

I read several blogs daily by subscribing to their RSS feed. While I remember some of the blogs and their author, I don't remember many though I remember their useful content and never fail to give credit to them.

Hellbound Bloggers is one such blog that has great content for bloggers. It publishes some extraordinary guest posts. Today, I read in one such guest blog post in Hellbound Bloggers that the Google Panda algorithm has busted the technique of building backlinks by blog commenting on do follow blogs.

The author of Hellbound Bloggers is Pradeep Kumar and he is from my dear old Madras. Now, I will remember him for long.

The ethics of a collection agency.

Would all the money lenders decide favorably on a loan application considering they can always seek the help of a collection agency as a last resort in case of default by the loan receiver or do they purely consider the credit worthiness of the receiver?

This thought came to my mind after reading a series of newspaper stories of the success of collection agencies all over the world. Contrary to the popular belief that loan collectors use unsavory methods to collect money from the defaulters, I hear highly professional collection agencies engage only M.B.A.s and lawyers, who would certainly not stoop down to other ways to collect the money,

For example, if you care to visit the kgaction.com of the Kaplan group, you would know about the educational qualification of their collection staff and also read that it is a member of International Association of Commercial Collectors (AICC).

No fee guarantee!

The respected collection agencies don’t charge a fee if they fail to collect money from loan defaulters.

A valuable ethics-eh?

Dynamic Views Templates Enhancement in Blogger Blogs

Back in June, we presented the Blogger enhancement allowingyour blog visitors to see your blog differently through new and refreshed Blog appearancethrough DynamicViews. Encouraged by a positive feedback from blogs’ owners and blogs’visitors, Blogger recently extended these feature capabilities.  

In brief, the Dynamic templates are new templates designs,which were made available to apply to Blogger blogs. In comparison with thestandard templates as were used for your blog before by default, these dynamictemplates are quite advance aesthetically, giving a new look and new feel toyour website. Built with the latest in web technology (AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3),Dynamic Views offer a unique browsing experience that will inspire your readersto explore your blog in new ways. The interactive layouts make it easier forreaders to enjoy and discover your posts, loading 40 percent faster thantraditional templates and bringing older entries to the surface so they seemfresh again.

You may choose from seven various Dynamic Views Templates thatdisplay text and photos differently. For example, if you have lots of photos onyour blog, you may prefer Flipcard or Snapshot. If your blog is moretext-heavy, then Classic, Sidebar Timeslide may be preferable. Here’s a quickdescription of each of the new views, along with links to some of our favoriteblogs where you can check each of them out in action.

• Classic: A modern twist on a traditional template, with infinite scrolling and images that load as you go
• Flipcard: Your photos are tiled across the page and flip to reveal the post title
• Magazine: A clean, elegant editorial style layout 
• Mosaic: A mosaic mix of different sized images and text
• Sidebar: An email inbox-like view with a reading page for quick scrolling and browsing
• Snapshot: An interactive pinboard of your posts 
• Timeslide: A horizontal view of your posts by time period

On top of adding two more templates to the initial offering,Blogger invested time and resources to their customization. Now, you can choosewhich view should be shown to your blog readers by default and enhance the preferredview with several options, like uploading a header image, changing background, orcustomizing the colors and fonts.

Adding a Dynamic View to your blog is as easy as changingyour template. Log in to Blogger, click on the Template tab on your dashboard,and select whichever view you want to set as your default.

Note that readers can still choose to navigate your blog ina different view by selecting from the pulldown in the upper left of thescreen.

While adding most of the widgets available for the normaltemplates, are still not embeddable, it is the forward-looking developmentdirection for the Blogger team. Adsense widget, however, can be already seen onsome templates.

Sources and AdditionalInformation:

http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/09/dynamic-views-seven-new-ways-to-share.html

http://buzz.blogger.com/2011/10/dynamic-views-update-2.html

A site that hires bloggers, pay up to $10 per blog post

A site that hires blogger pay up to $10 per blog post. After reading this title, I dug up more and followed the trail. I kept reading so many money earning opportunities for bloggers through more attention pulling titles some of which I reproduce below:

* If you are ready to complete a blogging assignment in 48 hours, you can sign up to receive paid blogging assignments.

* If you are a mom blogger from the United States and if you already blogging, how about earning money for the traffic your blog attracts?

* Would you like to earn $17 plus per blog post of 500 words?

I have no time to list out all that I read regarding sites that hire bloggers. If you care to share your encounters with similar sites, please post it in the comments box.

Thank you in advance.

Capture your own skiing motions with camera ski goggles.

I am glad that my son listened to my advice and bought anti-fog skiing goggles. Originally, he was not inclined to use ski glasses because they tend to fog up. I told him that he can buy anti-fogging ski goggles which seemed to have convinced him. He admitted that he was not aware of this feature.

A year ago, he went to the snowy mountains as a beginner skier. At that time, he only used sun glasses that proved to be inadequate in protecting his eyes. Sun glasses don’t fit snugly while skiing. In addition, their small lenses don’t provide large field vision like ski glasses.

I read somewhere that skiing glasses now come with a built-in camera. Skiers wearing these skiing glasses can capture their own motions easily. This information was late to my son who already bought a pair of basic ski glasses.

I decided to save money to buy him a pair of skiing glasses with camera next year.

Boostpost - Easy Social Network Ranking Integration

Promotion is important for every blog or website, except forthe cases, when blogs are created for personal needs or very limited privatepurposes. And for most bloggers spreading a word is essential for the sitepopularity and profitability. There are many ways and approaches, and involvingthe steady rising trend of the social media is one of the most promising amongthem.

So, so main question is what is the most efficient way ofdistributing your publications, and there is no the one and the best answer. Inthis post, we will review the free services from BoostPost – one of the easiestways to add social network ranking buttons to your blog or website. With onesimple button or widget, your page gains the integration of over 50 socialnetwork buttons. The visual presentation is a uniform, organized view of howyour post ranks among those networks. A button and widget can be easily embeddedin blog postings for multiple blogging platforms.

Boostpost helps to:

• Enhance internet posts via the presentation of valued reader statistics.
• Promote posts to new audiences all over the world.
• Give active readers new opportunities to "break the story".

 The list of thesocial networks is compiled from the most popular services, including Facebook,Twitter, Digg, and Reddit, but also have some, which you may even not ever usedor even heard. Does not matter, as your visitor may be using these services,unknown to you, and they will submit your post there, gaining additionalexposure to the group, you never reached before.

If you participate in the Google Adsense revenue program,you may even add one more channel of income. If you provide your Google AdsenseClient ID in your button or widget code, you are entitled to get revenues sharefrom the ads posted on your boostpage.

Website: http://www.boostpost.com/

HTML-cPanel Video tutorials. Dirt cheap.

Do you know that that it can take you several weeks, or even months, to learn the basics of HTML?

Wouldn't it be easier if someone just SHOWED you?

Ah yes, your Control Panel given by your hosting service provider-it will be mind boggling to understand all of them on your own. Trust me, I am yet to click on all those colorful icons in my CPanel. I am simply scared!


The Wacky Gals have combined TWO hot topics for a "Wacky Sale" - HTML Simplified for Beginners and Cpanel Basics...

There are a total of 36 videos that will show you step-by-step what to do and how to do it!

Head over now and grab your videos so you can finally start making the money you deserve!

A review of Blog Distributor.

Has anyone had any success with Blog Distributors? Only yesterday I stumbled on to https://www.blogdistributor.com/ and wondered why it did not come to my attention till then!

It is probably not a favorite among my fellow pro-bloggers. The site does not have any information about the owners though it has published its full street address.

I believe bloggers can submit their blogs of lower page rank too. Blog Distributor gives just 48 hours to complete a task but they pay only once in a month which might put of several bloggers who are used to get their payment in one or two weeks.

A review (http://www.toasteggme.com/index.php/money-making-opportunities-site/get-paid-to-blog-at-blog-distributor/) of Blog Distributor said that only U.S. and Canada bloggers are accepted though I did not find it in the FAQ of the site.

What I like about the site is you only need to a write a 100 words review to get paid.

Improve your blogging with Franklin Language Master.

Shamelessly, I was looking at the gadget that you see here at the hands of a blogger-a professional blogger to be more specific. He caught me; rather I got caught staring at his language master franklin. He did not mind the privacy intrusion. On the other hand, he looked pleased that he possessed one.

Silently, he passed it on to me. As I was not wearing my reading glasses, I asked him why he bought it instead of when and where. I know it from The Source.

He admitted quite frankly that his English vocabulary is not yet suitable for a professional blogger. Once, he happened to do a review of the Franklin language master dictionary and he bought it actually before he wrote his review.

From then on, he carries it always with him and confessed that his written English has definitely improved.

I appreciated his genuine interest to excel in his work.

Missing Link between Facebook and Twitter

Most of the modern time bloggers recognize the value of thesocial networks to promote their blog post, sharing the related information onthe multiple sites and creating additional web links to your blog, which plays positiverole for your site ranking.

Among the two leading applications in the social networkingare Twitter and Facebook. Free web service Natter will save you time by linkingyour two accounts in these communities. As you register to the Natter account,all your tweets will be monitored by the Natter service and instantly posted toFacebook. The same way, your every comment posted on Facebook, will be automaticallyreposted to Twitter in real time. So you can follow your Facebook right fromyour favorite Twitter client.

Main Features:

• Post tweets to your Facebook profile.
• Post Facebook comments back to Twitter.
• Only post tweets containing a hashtag (e.g. #fb) to Facebook.
• Finds and displays links in your tweets as a Facebook post.
• Translates twitter names to their real world counterparts.

Website: http://natter.r10.railsrumble.com/

Are you still buying backlink packages?

Have you noticed a surge in backlinks providers? Apart from newbie bloggers who offer backlinking services through DP forum, a few are further encouraged to put up a website selling their backlinks packages.

The business must be good else how come there are several of them advertising backlinks packages through Google AdWords? A few minutes ago, I was tempted to click on a Google ad from my email screen, The subject line said $30 per PR 6 backlinks. However, when I landed on the advertiser's site, I was greeted with $395!

I quickly exited. In my opinion, getting links back from sites that are not in way related to your blog's niche is absolute waste of time and money irrespective of the PR of the sites that are going to link to you.

Image courtesy: Google images

The stanchions for trade shows.

I must admit I was terribly embarrassed when I failed to act as per the announcement on microphone calling me to present my identity papers at the counter inside any one of the stanchions. The bloggers conference hall was yet to get filled up even though I walked in exactly at the scheduled starting time of 1.30 PM. The reason for my embarrassment was I did not know what a stanchion is.

Eventually, when I reached the counter to register, I smiled sheepishly at the pretty young girl and frankly asked her whether she is one of the stanchions. She burst out laughing. She could not control herself for several minutes.

I reddened but waited patiently, the sheepishness was then as broad as the ball room. Finally, with a look of understanding, she pointed to the shining brass poles that held a silk ribbon.

Ah, there! The ubiquitous crowd control system that we see near the checkout counters in shopping mall and in trade shows is called stanchion post!

My dear, what a way to learn English vocabulary!