Fixed or Liquid?

Is it best to have a fixed width web site, or one that dynamically resizes? This just in:
Rothman argues that since screen resolutions have stopped growing for the most part, fixed is the way to go.
Read full article at Monkey Bites

Number of Americans Online Grows

Total U.S. adults with access to the Internet has swelled to 77 percent, or 172 million people, as of April 2006.At home 70 percent of adults have online access, an increase over the 66 percent in 2005.
Read more at  TechWeb

Google Teaches Bloggers How To Rank | Performancing.com

For bloggers wanting better page rank, a helpful article:
In it, he talks about Google’s problems with splogs on Blogger.com, and their efforts to solve the issue, aswell as giving advice to bloggers on ranking in Google and how bloggers can use Google to find and organize information.
Read full article: Exclusive: Google Teaches Bloggers How To […]

Why Bloggers Don’t Need SEO

A nice analysis of the power of a blog:
Funny topic of conversation huh? Particularly bearing in mind the participants area of expertise. It’s true though, and it’s something I’ve said here a couple of times in the past: For the most part, bloggers just shouldn’t be worrying about SEO.
Why Bloggers Don’t Need SEO

Secure Files in WordPress

WP plugin: Secure Files Allows you to safely upload and download documents stored outside of your web document root for security purposes.

This is great for people using plugins like Registered Only that secure your Wordpress blog (Posts, Pages, etc). The problem with these plugins is that your loose files aren’t protected - only the contents […]

Alternative CMS’s

For robust content management, my favorite product is Expressions Engine (for complex web sites such as news sites) and WordPress (yeah, it’s a blog, but it’s easy and does all the content management most simple sites need). Both are PHP/MySQL based, and easily extensible by plugins, custom code, API tags, or simply hacking the PHP […]

Comprehensive list of 325+ WordPress 1.5 Themes

Need a blog theme for WordPress? 
WordPress 1.5 uses a new system that takes the template to the next level — themes. Not only are there many themes which are freely available to download and use in your own blog, but you can use Ryan Boren’s ThemeSwitcher plugin to allow your weblog visitors to change your […]

Fair Use on Blogging Posts

When ‘reblogging’ or quoting from another site in your blog, how much cut and paste can be considered fair use? These links give informative information on this important topic:

Blog’s Blog | Copy paste : Why and Why not ?
Chat, Copy, Paste, Prison
Copyright.gov FAQs

Bloggers Cautioned About Being Copy Cats

Thomas Smart, co-chair of the intellectual property and patent litigation group at Kaye Scholer explained that the courts ask four questions to determine if someone is making fair use of copyrighted material:

What is the nature or purpose of the use?
What is the nature of the work being copied?
How much of the […]

Blogs and Search Engines

Blogs are the latest rage. The ‘blogosphere’ is almost a separate universe from the older search engine world. How can a blog drive traffic to your web site?
Post Compelling Content Frequently
Post a minimum of 3 articles a week or people won’t keep coming to your site. The content must be good, relevant, and free of […]