As anyone who has seen my Wordpress review will know, I think Wordpress is pretty darned good. So I was really looking forward to upgrading Wordpress 2, especially because of all the hype.

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Sheesh, you'd think that when we went full feed one month ago someone might have told us that there were no linebreaks in our RSS heh! It's been fixed now, and the code to convert Drupal 4.6 to full feed (in the link above) altered to show the fix.

Thanks Ozh!

In my Previous post I provided some ideas for how with a bit of PHP programming magic you can add some oomf to your ads. I got a bit of feedback that people would like more ideas, so here I am with a part 2!

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After reviewing Telligents Community Server software I thought it would be good to get Telligents boss and ex-Microsoftie, Rob Howard to share his unique perspective on the blog software industry.

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As promised in Part One of How To Customize WordPress, this time I thought I would attempt to see how simple it can be to tweak an existing WordPress template using some CSS.

A lot of the more frequently used existing blog templates have only a 2 Column design, and are quite narrow at that so trying to get some whitespace and an extra column into one of them is the challenge I set myself.

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So you want to sell products directly from your blog? We have already decided it could be a great idea for creating revenue, let's take a look at how exactly we add ecommerce capability to your blog.

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There are two main ways that I can see to go about customising themes in WP. I'm not really a theme user, as I tend to build from scratch, so it's difficult for me to say which way would be easier for everyone. One way is to customise the functionality of the blog itself this involves getting into the "Loop" (more on this later), the other is just to build around the existing CSS of an already stable theme. There is a lot you can do by just dissecting your chosen base theme and using the CSS to do the work.

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Following the recent TextPattern review, I’d like to tell you of another blog solution, Dotclear.

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Today's addition to our ever-growing list of blog software reviews is Pivot, a database-less blog system written in PHP. Not needing a database could be an advantage in the ease of installation stakes, let's see.

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Blosxom (pronounced "blossom") is another blog package that was kindly suggested for me to review by a couple of readers after the last round of blog software reviews. It is billed as

a lightweight yet feature-packed weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind

Let's see how it compares.

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While I was posting our previous round of blog system reviews several people suggested packages I had missed out. Well, we can't have that can we? So here we are with TextPattern, the first of our next round of reviews. The difference this time round is we have a champion to beat in Wordpress ...

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We can easily get caught up in the planning stages of professional blogging but it's time to get practical. Once you have chosen and qualified your niche, planned your chosen blog monetization strategy and invented a great blog name, next job is to find your blog a home!

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There is definitely a market for fully-hosted blogs. During my recent reviews of blog software I noted how difficult it would be for a non-techy to set up their own blog using off the shelf software and hosting. Here is my wish-list for a hosted blog.

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As the observant will have noticed I have been posting reviews of blog software. This is exam results day, let's see who graduated with honours and who flunked..

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Todays post is the final review in our blog software reviews. In this post I will be looking at Drupal, probably the most general-purpose of all the software thus far. Let's see how well it performs as a blog.

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