Dreamy Styles

Wordpress’s Pings can Hurt your Blog & the Plugin that Saves the Day

If Pinging to you is just one of those geek terms that you’ve come across but just brushed it off as more techno-speak. Then it’s important that you read this post..

Pinging is why blogs are more powerful than ordinary websites and why blogs are easily indexed in search engines while websites struggle to get indexed, Pinging is also why blogs attract more traffic than ordinary websites..this is all because Blogs have the ability to PING! and you can’t afford to overlook the ping process, no matter how geeky it sounds.
Ok, so What is Pinging and what does it do for my blog?

8 of the Best Video Widgets

Here are some of the best video plugins and widgets I found online..Enjoy!

• Daiko’s YouTube Widget for Wordpress – Adds a sidebar widget to display a defined number of random YouTube videos of your own choice. Make your own videolist in the widget-control-panel. The widget also supports RSS-feeds from tag(s) and user(s).
• Video Widget for Wordpress – Add more than 25 types of video in your sidebar. Only video

30 Resources for Free Images, Video and Text

Here’s a list of 30 FREE Stock Resource Links that offer images, text and videos licensed under Creative Commons. Good Stuff.

Fancy Drupal, Mambo and Joomla Themes

Here are a few Drupal, Joomla and Mambo themes that I think are really nice from thewebdesignstudio.com….

Are you up for the Thirty Day Challenge? Make your first dollar online.

I’m gonna try this out, it looks interesting and I’m always up for a challenege and learning more then I think I know..it’s called the 30 day challenge and it’s an program video blog/website that guides you through the process of learning how you can create your business online, or optimize your current business and [...]

Get Dirty – Grunge Templates 4 WordPress

Modern Oak Theme – Beautiful, dark Wood background, 2 column, widget ready and ad ready. Originally in dutch with English version available.
Preview & Download

Blue Jeans: Kind of a cute idea, a theme that uses a blue jean look and feel. This theme is available in both two-column and three-column style.
Preview & Download

Grunge by Ithemes Grunge [...]

Hottest Blogs 2008 – Winners of the bloggie awards

Gotta Love the bloggie awards! Below you’ll find a short list of 2008 winners and nominees..presented by The 2008 Bloggie Awards.

Best Website/Blog Award Web Sites:
Bloggerschoiceawards.com – Blogger’s Choice Awards, is a user-generated blog voting site, Awards are presented to blogs currently making an impact in the blogosphere. Now accepting final nominations for the 2008 competition.
Webbyawards.com [...]

Submit your Blog – Blog Search Engines and Directory list

Google launched a new homepage for Google Blog Search so that you too can browse and discover the most interesting stories in the blogosphere. See what googleblog.blogspot.com is saying.
Google Blog Search indexes blogs by their site feeds to get the most accurate and up-to-date results. Blog Search uses a set of algorithms to try [...]

Turn off the lights – 8 Dark Themes for Wordpress

Dark Night Free Wordpress Theme

A Dark Theme that is Simple & clean – Sidebar ads ready Design by Do-Follow Blogs
Demo | Download
Copper Rocker Free Wordpress theme

A dark brown and rust colored theme with ad ready sidebar.
Demo | Download
Dezinerfolio 2.0 by Dezinerfolio

The demo link doesn’t work on Dezinerfolio’s site so you’ll have to download it to [...]

Free and Tasty Icon Sets

Icons! One of my graphic weaknesses. I have a collection of icons stored on my computer that is almost embarrassing. I could never possibly use the amount of icons I have. Oh well..we’ll just consider it a hobby..like collecting stamps? Haha! Anyway I’ve put together just a small list of some of the icon resources [...]