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		<title>Thoughts blog site</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across a new blog site called thoughts.com and found it very interesting.
The website is a fairly easy to use social networking/conversation websites designed to be extremely widget friendly. This gives each individual user the ability to interact with teh website in a completely different way, I really like that feature and to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently came across a new <a href="http://www.thoughts.com/">blog site</a> called thoughts.com and found it very interesting.</p>
<p>The website is a fairly easy to use social networking/conversation websites designed to be extremely widget friendly. This gives each individual user the ability to interact with teh website in a completely different way, I really like that feature and to me it makes the website far more about me, which of course is always my personal objective.</p>
<p>The website allows you to interact with a community of bloggers through the widgets, you basically decide which information you&#8217;d like to share and your account is updated with  the latest blog posts from your friends as well as emails and a ton of other stuff.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a daily news section with an extensive amount of information crawled from around the web as well as breaking news and the ability to discuss or participate in the news community, through an active discussion board.</p>
<p>thoughts.com is a fairly interactive community with some really though provoking and thoughtful personal web blogs, with the vast majority of content generated by an active community of users. People on thought.com seem (for the most part) to subscribe to the companies &#8220;one love policy&#8221; which helps encourage like minded people to interact in a positive way.</p>
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		<title>Easy Technorati Tags for WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add free Technorati tags to your WordPress website with this quick and easy plugin!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/technorati.jpeg"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignright size-small wp-image-4358" title="Technorati" src="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/technorati.jpeg" alt="Technorati" width="124" height="115" /></a>There are a few other <a title="Technorati" href="http://Technorati.com">Technorati</a> Tags generators for WordPress out there but I found most of them overly complicated and fairly difficult to use, often requiring custom fields or complex processes. What this plugin does is takes the native tags from WordPress and generates a list of Technorati tags for your blog.</p>
<p><strong>Usage</strong></p>
<p>To use the Easy Technorati Tags for WordPress plugin, simply download and install onto your WordPress website. You can then add it to your theme by inserting the code <em>&lt;?php echo timu_technorati_tags() ;?&gt;</em> to your blog theme files or to a sidebar widget.</p>
<p><strong>Output</strong></p>
<p>The tag generates a comma separated list of tags complete with Technorati links. I choose to return it as a value rather than write it directly so that if you&#8217;d like to make changes or process the results, you can do it easy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/?download=Easy%20Technorati%20Tags%20for%20WordPress"><img class="aligncenter " title="download-file" src="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/download-file.png"  alt="download file Easy Technorati Tags for WordPress image" width="322" height="80" / rel="lightbox[roadtrip]" /></a></p>
<p>You can download the plugin directly from the WordPress Plugin Directory. Don&#8217;t forget to rate the plugin if you&#8217;ve enjoyed it.</p>
<p><strong>How You Can Help</strong></p>
<p><em>I love developing </em><a title="WordPress plugins" href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/category/software/web-based/wordpress-downloads/wordpress-plugins/"><em>plugins for WordPress</em></a><em> and do my best to always keep them free but of course it take a lot of time and effort to build these plugins so if you&#8217;d like to say thanks, the best way is to take a few moments and write about the plugin on your own website, include a link to my website from your posts or </em><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-technorati-tags-for-wordpress/"><em>download and rate the plugin on the official plugin directory</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<p><em>Support forums are now online! If you have any questions, please visit <a href="http://forums.thisismyurl.com">http://forums.thisismyurl.com</a>.<br />
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		<title>Free SEO WordPress Theme for Small Business Web Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A clean, simple theme for business that's been optimized for search engines.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As part of my goal to create and upload <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wordpress/five-free-seo-wordpress-themes-in-five-days/">five WordPress themes that are Search Engine Optimized</a>, I&#8217;ve finished my second theme, it&#8217;s a simple website design for small businesses.</p>
<p>The purpose of this theme was to create a simple, clean, professional website design for companies who need an online presence without the clutter of a normal blog. It&#8217;s not a very exciting theme, actually it&#8217;s a little on the plain side but it does feature a simple single column design with widget ready footer and nice big text which will help people read the site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/made-for-small-business.jpg"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-687" title="made-for-small-business" src="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/made-for-small-business-300x300.jpg" alt="made for small business 300x300 Free SEO WordPress Theme for Small Business Web Sites image" width="300" height="300" /></a>I&#8217;ve also taken the time to include a lot of SEO features for beginner website owners, these search engine tools are built right into the template and will auto generate headers, META and titles suitable for Google to index effectively. It&#8217;s an ideal blog design for a <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/web-advice/how-to-run-a-successful-website-for-your-church/">church or community group</a>, or a <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wordpress/can-you-put-up-a-website-for-less-than-100/">small business on a budget</a>.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re welcome to download the template for free. If you like this theme but would like to have it customized or installed for you, why not <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/about/contact/">contact me</a>? I&#8217;m available for WordPress consulting, theme customization and freelance development.</p>
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		<title>WordPress Magazine Theme &#8211; Free Dark Version</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A darker version of A Smashingly Good Free Magazine Theme for WordPress]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So after I finished creating <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wordpress/smashingly-good-free-magazine-theme-for-wordpress/">A Smashingly Good Free Magazine Theme for WordPress</a> my first <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wordpress/five-free-seo-wordpress-themes-in-five-days/">WordPress theme focused on Search Engine Optimization</a>, I had some feedback from a couple of friends who liked it but found the theme a little effeminate. To that end I took a bit of time this weekend and put together a slightly darker version, hopefully this will inspire real men to enjoy the theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/smashingly-dark-magazine-theme.jpg"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-595" title="smashingly-dark-magazine-theme" src="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/smashingly-dark-magazine-theme-207x300.jpg" alt="smashingly dark magazine theme 207x300 WordPress Magazine Theme   Free Dark Version image" width="207" height="300" /></a> The theme still uses <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/16/swirls-flowers-circles-a-free-vector-graphics-set/">header artwork</a> from  <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com">Smashing Magazine</a> as well as the <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/23/smashy-the-alien-icon-set/">icons</a>. I&#8217;ve darkened the  <a href="http://www.rawsterne.co.uk/">great tiling background</a> I found online for free.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not going to count this theme towards my <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wordpress/five-free-seo-wordpress-themes-in-five-days/">WordPress theme focused on Search Engine Optimization</a> but I am going to let you <strong><a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/a-smashingly-dark-magazine.zip">download it for free</a></strong>.  If you like this theme but would like to have it customized or installed for you, why not <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/about/contact/">contact me</a>? I&#8217;m available for WordPress consulting, theme customization and freelance development.</p>
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		<title>Smashingly Good Free Magazine Theme for WordPress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A widget ready, three column WordPress theme for community groups and small business.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On Friday I promised to <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wordpress/five-free-seo-wordpress-themes-in-five-days/">create some free SEO</a> focused website templates for WordPress. The is the first in the series, a three column magazine layout style theme which you can use to power your <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wordpress/can-you-put-up-a-website-for-less-than-100/">business</a>, community organization or <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/web-advice/how-to-run-a-successful-website-for-your-church/">church</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/16/swirls-flowers-circles-a-free-vector-graphics-set/">header artwork</a> comes from  <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com">Smashing Magazine.</a> They also provided the <a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/23/smashy-the-alien-icon-set/">icons</a>, but not the <a href="http://www.rawsterne.co.uk/">great tiling background</a> that I came across a few weeks ago. The template design has been tested in WordPress 2.6 on Safari and FireFox as well as Internet Explorer. I&#8217;ve depended a lot on a series of article by <a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/ultimate-guide-to-wordpress-seo-meta-descriptions/">Nathan Rice</a> on Search Engine Optimization for WordPress as well as a few <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wordpress/wordpress-seo-tips-the-title-tag/">SEO articles</a> of my own.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/smashingly-good-free-wordpress-theme.jpg"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-590" title="smashingly-good-free-wordpress-theme" src="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/smashingly-good-free-wordpress-theme-207x300.jpg" alt="smashingly good free wordpress theme 207x300 Smashingly Good Free Magazine Theme for WordPress image" width="207" height="300" /></a>Some of the features of this design include:</p>
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<li>Widget ready</li>
<li>Search Engine Optimized</li>
<li>Gravatar ready</li>
<li>Optimized Titles</li>
<li>Optimized Keywords using Tags</li>
<li>Optimized Page Descriptions</li>
<li>Double Post Protected</li>
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<p>You&#8217;re welcome to <strong><a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/a-smashingly-good-magazine.zip">download the theme for free</a></strong>.</p>
<p>If you like this theme but would like to have it customized or installed for you, why not <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/about/contact/">contact me</a>? I&#8217;m available for WordPress consulting, theme customization and freelance development.</p>
<p>So what do you think? Tell me how you&#8217;d like to see me improve this template for future versions.</p>
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<p><small>Update: October 18th &#8211; I&#8217;ve just added a <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wordpress/wordpress-magazine-theme-free-dark-version/">dark version</a> of this theme as well.</small><br />
<small>Update: October 20th &#8211; I&#8217;ve just added a <a href="http://www.thisismyurl.com/wordpress/free-seo-wordpress-theme-for-small-business-web-sites/">the next theme</a> in this theory.</small></p>
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