Spread the Link Love: Link to Other Blogs to Promote Your Own
One of the best ways you can promote your website is to link to other sites. Doesn’t make sense on the face of it, does it? How can sending people away from your site...
Author: Dustin Wax
Link: Random Name Generator "Unled"
Need names for your novel’s cast of thousands? Unled has you covered. Visit the page and you’re presented with 4 random names drawn from, as I understand it, census data (or maybe phonebooks, or...
My Article in ByLine Magazine
I got a pleasant surprise yesterday — a big fat envelope from ByLine Magazine containing a check and a couple of copies of the April 2008 issue with an article by me featured on...
How to Create PDFs from Any Document
PDF, the Portable Document Format, is a standard created by Adobe for circulating formatted documents over the web. Using Acrobat Reader or some other PDF reader (I like Foxit Reader, which opens much faster...
Link: Social|Median, a New Social Network
I’m playing around with Social|Median, an as-yet-not-public social network that allows you to create and administer topic channels. Like other social networks such as Digg or Reddit, Social|Median lets you vote stories up and...
How to Add a Plugin to a WordPress Blog
One of the great features of the WordPress blogging platform is the ease with which you can extend its functionality using plugins. WordPress maintains it’s own directory of plugins, and you can easily find...
Pre-Writing Posts: Write Ahead for Best Results
Here’s a quick blogging tip for anyone who writes online (which includes you, if you’ve taken my advice and started a blog to promote your writing). Stockpile posts ahead of time and use WordPress’...
Link: 50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Online Writers
Job Profiles has a huge list of 50 open source programs, from word processors and spell checkers to weblog editing software and submission trackers, that online writers can download and use free of charge....
Writing for the Web
Whether you’re creating content for your own site or seeking work writing on another site, you need to learn how to write for the web. Reading on a computer screen is a different experience...
Writing Ebooks Series Available as a Free Ebook — and a New Addition to the Site
It would be sort of hypocritical if I were to write a 5-part series on writing ebooks if I didn’t put my money where my mouth is and pony up an actual ebook. So...
