Below you can see all our latest blog posts on various WordPress and non WordPress issues, news, plugins, work etc.
If you would like to keep up to date with our blog posts then we also provide a handy RSS feed of these posts and can also be found tweeting: follow us @TheBlogHouse.
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WordPress App for Google Android
WordPress have just relased a fine looking App for Google Android mobile phones.
The initial release has focused on giving you the ability to manage your blog while on the go.
Features include the ability to:
- Configure and manage multiple blogs
- Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments
- Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
- Create and Edit Pages
- Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar
Here is a brief video showing the app in action:
Dreamweaver CS5
Here is a quick post with a link to some cool HTML5 features of Dreaamweaver 5:Looking for a complete WordPress book?
Digging into WordPress - best WordPress book around currently?
Someone asked us to recommend a WordPress book that wasn’t for newbies but also wasn’t almost written in binary and we think the best book that fits this middle of the WordPress road position is the great Digging Into WordPress book which is available in both print AND pdf form.
Written by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr the pdf version comes with a lifetime subscription meaning you will be emailed ALL updated versions of the book for free – pretty cool.
Click here to find out more Digging Into WordPress
NOTE: We have added an affiliated link above so we will makes a few $ if you buy via this but honestly we are not linking to this for a few $ but because we think this book is currently the best WordPress book around.
Chris Morris’s first feature film – a Jihadist comedy
Take a look at an exclusive Guardian clip of Chris Morris’s first feature film from the “jihadist comedy” Four lions:http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2010/jan/21/chris-morris-four-lions-sundance
Great single page web design
Best single page web site design I have seen in a while – check it out: http://www.basilgloo.com/Freelance WordPress Theme Designers wanted
Are you a freelance WordPress theme designer who regularly creates beautifully coded, up to date WordPress themes?Well if so The Blog House would like to hear from you (see below)
The reason? As a new company we are currently only a small team but as they say, good news travel fast and we currently have several clients wanting to use The Blog House for their next project so if the above sounds like it’s up your street get in touch and we will have a look at your portfolio and get back to you ASAP.
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ShareMyPlaylists.com
The Blog House are pleased to finally detail the work we did with ShareMyPlaylists.com which is THE Spotify community site:
We approached the owner of ShareMyPlaylists.com with a proposal after coming across the first version of the site during our web travels and realising there was massive potential to improve the initial site by extending it’s initial WordPress based roots.
After a few chats The Blog House won the contract to take the site from it’s standard WordPress launch form to a new WordPress MU & BuddyPress version to enable a whole new level of user interaction and functionality.
“The Blog House were crucial in taking ShareMyPlaylists.com from it’s first incarnation to the social networking music site it is today.”
The initial development and testing of the site took about 8 weeks and the site received great feedback from the early beta testers we trialled the site with. The initial social networking infrastructure of the site didn’t look too far removed from the standard clean BuddyPress templates (this was deliberate) but behind the scenes there were and still are many custom WordPress plugins that The Blog House have written as well as a great deal of custom server side code to keep the site running as smoothly as possible.
During the first 3 weeks of the launch of the new Blog House version of the site, ShareMyPlaylists.com’s daily traffic increased by a factor of 4, over 4000 people created accounts and the owner of the site signed up to have The Blog House manage all his WordPress, server and technical needs. Since this successful version 2 launch ShareMyPlaylists.com has grown even further and we handed the maintenance and design over to another development agency to manage full time.
If you are looking for a company to help you take your WordPress based web site to the next level then get in touch.
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Where 14 of the top internet businesses were started
Great post over at Income Diary on where some of the biggest internet companies started off life – hint mostly bedrooms!Click here for the post if you missed it above!
What is Spotify?
Technically Spotify is a 100% legal, peer-to-peer music streaming service that runs on your computer but it is so much more than this boring technical description might make you think…
Spotify is quite simply changing the way millions of people buy, listen and think about music. Trust us you will NEVER listen to music in the same way again once you use Spotify.
Check out the following official Spotify ad first…
Spotify offers Unlimited *1 music for free *2
- *1 = Spotify offers you access to as much music as they have in their ever expanding music library – I have yet to come across anything that I wanted to listen to and it not being available.
- *2 = Spotify play your 30 seconds of adverts every 30 minutes or so if you use their free service. So the music is free but you have to listen to ads every so often – much less than any commercial radio station though!
Making music social
As well as giving you access to an unlimited amount of music for free Spotify also allows you to share your favourite groups of tracks (playlists) with as many other people as you want to via facebook and via sites like http://sharemyplaylists.com (which The Blog House developed) allowing you to get new ‘mix tapes’ every single day!
The future of Spotify?
There is an official Spotify iPhone App waiting somewhere in Apple’s HQ waiting to be approved. IF this gets approved by Mr Jobs et al then for £9.99 a month (Premium Spotify package) you will be able to sync all your favourite music onto your iPhone and stream ALL of the music on Spotify via WiFi or a 3G connection!
Also Spotify is only available in Europe currently but the guys at Spotify plan to launch in USA at the end of 2009 / early 2010 and once the Americans come online, music will simply never be the same again.
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