Level Up! Gaming Blog Award at PBA ‘08 announced
The Philippine Blog Awards announced yet another sponsor award called the Level Up! Gaming Blog Award. It’s open to all Filipino bloggers who blog about gaming in general or about Level Up! games.
Nomination runs from August 27 to September 15, 2008. Submit your nominations here.
Pinoy WordPress Plugin: Daily Top 10 Posts
Daily Top 10 Posts is a plugin by Andrew dela Serna that tracks the how many hits each of your blog posts receive. It then lists the most popular for the day as well as the most popular overall.
Download Daily Top 10 Posts | Plugins by Andrew dela Serna
Philippine Blog Awards nominations closed, Nokia’s special award announced
The 2008 Philippine Blog Awards is inching closer and closer as the nominations have closed. The last day for nominations was actually August 10th, but the deadline for the Special Awards division was extended until the 22nd.
Nominees have been notified to submit 5 of their top posts to make the judging process easier. The deadline was noon today, August 27th.
Aside from the three major awards divisions, there are new awards from the co-presentors. One of these is the Nokia Kaleidoscope of Connections Award.
Challenge: Produce a video of how you connect with others using mobile technology
Your post will be judged on concept, style, and its popularity.
1st place - Nokia N95 8GB
2nd place - Nokia 6220 Classic
3rd place - Nokia N78
More details can be found here.
WordPress Admin Dashboard to be updated in 2.7
The admin dashboard is an essential part of what makes WordPress really work, which is why the Automattic team continues to tweak it to ultimate user interface perfection. In the upcoming version 2.7 (nicknamed “Crazyhorse”), WP FUN shares a glimpse of what the new dashboard will look like:
Each of the menu items on the left open and close as needed. Templates contains everything that is in the design tab now. Utilities features the new inbox (which seems to include notifications about WordPress and maybe new comments, but it doesn’t do anything yet) and some of the contents of the manage menu.
The recently-concluded WordCamp also demo-ed Crazyhorse. You can find more pictures here. See the “Riding the Crazyhorse” talk by Liz Danzico of Happy Cog, the company who redesigned the admin interface in WordPress 2.5.
A video courtesy of socialTNT is also embedded below:
Finally, CalinSoft has also posted an in-depth walkthrough of Crazyhorse, though unfortunately it’s in Spanish. (Try Google’s translation here.)
The dashboard is just a critical part of a blogger’s workflow, so it’s a good thing that WordPress is really working hard to continuously improve it.
How to build a WordPress site in 5 hours
Max Limpag explains step-by-step how you can create a WordPress-powered site (not just a blog) from paper to the screen in no more than 5 hours. He also shares useful tools which aided in his process, such as the Yahoo! UI library, Aptana Studio, Bluefish, and FileZilla.
His proof of concept can be viewed at Tungkaran.com.
WordPress humor from Dashboard Comics
Hafiz Rahman’s WPLover has posted possibly the very first web comics revolving around WordPress. It’s called Dashboard Comics and here’s strip no. 1:
Good job!
Blogging from Home book by Janette Toral launched
One way to tell a professional blogger has achieved massive success is when he—in this case, she—releases a book. Yes, the digital Filipino and and influential blogger extraordinaire Janette Toral has launched her book called Blogging from Home last week at the Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit.
Blogging from Home was written for easy reading and designed for the typical Internet user who wants to learn about blogging and its various use for business or personal intent.
So how can you buy the book? You can go online or pick it up from one of the leading bookstores.
Be sure to add these CSS declarations to your WordPress 2.5/2.6 stylesheets
Versions of WordPress 2.5 and 2.6 have added arbitrary new CSS classes for styling uploaded images (WP 2.5) and their captions (WP 2.6). The WordPress Codex has a page that provides CSS declarations you can add to your custom theme if you’re not too familiar with tweaking your stylesheets.
.aligncenter, div.aligncenter { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } .alignleft { float: left; } .alignright { float: right; } .wp-caption { border: 1px solid #ddd; text-align: center; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; /* optional rounded corners for browsers that support it */ -moz-border-radius: 3px; -khtml-border-radius: 3px; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; border-radius: 3px; } .wp-caption img { margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0 none; } .wp-caption p.wp-caption-text { font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0; }
Also check out the links posted for more help on CSS, HTML, and WordPress blog design in general.
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Submit your blog to blogs.com now!
blogs.com is the newest service that lets you discover the best of the blogosphere. It’s a creation of the same people who brought you blogging software rivals to WordPress, but everyone is encouraged to submit their favorite blogs for approval.
You can quickly and easily find blogs by category and topic or read daily blog roundups of some of the best blog content around the Web. Top 10 Lists from celebrity bloggers and influencers also help you discover new blogs, and everyone is invited to create their own Top 10 lists to share with the community. Blogs.com also produces a free weekly email newsletter so you can get the best in blogs delivered to your inbox.
Pick the artists you want to perform in Manila and win CDs
You can win 4 music CDs courtesty of MCA Music and Music Picks just by answering this survey.
Winner will be notified through e-mail. Prize will be shipped anywhere in the Philippines.
This survey and contest runs until September 17, 2008.
