Making it Yours — An Inept Guide to Website Design

And when I say ‘design’, of course, I mean theft.

Regulars will have noted that things don’t stand still for too long here on twopoin­touch. Apart from the post count. Fiddling with new themes and plugins is almost com­pulsive beha­viour. While I’ve only had around four long-​​​​term favourite themes over the last five years, there’s every chance

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Believing in Blogs: Massive Mobile Debate

Blogs are dead, right? The cool kids are all doing micro-​​​​messaging and video instead? They’re missing out on a world of value, if that’s the case.

I’ve been swotting up on mobile as fast as I can — the industry, com­panies, tech­no­logy, the apps scene, for obvious reasons. And one of my most valuable sources

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The Hot Link Debate

It’s nearly two weeks old now, but Nick Carr wrote an article at the end of May which caused a lot of people to stop and think, or oth­er­wise lash out with the sort of outrage at which the Web is best – the over-​​​​exaggerated kind.

He was writing about the use of

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Do These Numbers Add Up?

The recent Pew/​​Internet Millennials report suggests that young people are far more con­nected than any other age group. They are 50% more likely to have created a social net­working profile, 40% more likely to use Twitter and nearly four times as likely to have made a video of them­selves. They’re also avidly mobile – with 41%

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Book Review: Create Your Own Blog

So thanks again to Pearson Education for sending me books to review. This time it’s Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro by Canadian blogger Tris Hussey. It’s cur­rently £10.26 on Amazon UK and has 272 pages.

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What to do about Old Posts?

Your old stuff — the stuff you wrote before, even your best stuff — mostly turns bad. It always did, but the Internet remem­bers. The churl.

Most people don’t bother about it. I, however, am foolish.

I’ve recently started using the Broken Links Checker plugin on this site. It finds the articles and sites

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