http://wahm20.com advice and advocacy for WAHMs using Web 2.0 technologies Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:56:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Comment spam is the bane of bloggers’ lives - it ruins open discussions and is a form of search engine fraud. The single best way though, to solve comment spam, is to use Akismet - its core bundled from 2.2 - and easily installable as a plugin otherwise. You’ll need to sign ... http://wahm20.com/how-do-i-protect-against-comment-spam/ Sorry guys, but due to a hiccup with the server some of the posts are kinda...well...missing.  Sorry! We'll be back in as soon as we can work out WHY it went sidewards. D Kai Wilson, and team **EDIT** We're putting back some of the posts, in line with our new overview of the site ... http://wahm20.com/where-did-it-all-go/ A reader writes: “My old webhost told me that once I’d transferred to the new host, I’d have to ‘refresh’ my DNS. I tried hitting ctrl+f5 but that didn’t work. Can you help? Hi there! Ctrl+f5 is the windows browser refresh, its not quite the same as what your old host means. However, ... http://wahm20.com/how-do-i-refresh-my-dns/ Every freelancer and small business owner knows the feeling of being completely overwhelmed with work. You've got so much work, so much to do that you can't move. At the other end of the scale, especially in times of recession or negative image in respective industries, each and every one of ... http://wahm20.com/feast-and-famine-as-a-freelancer/ Updated information on trackbacks in both google and blogger will appear here tomorrow. http://wahm20.com/defining-trackbacks/ One of the loudest yells I get at the moment, when a client and I are looking at a WordPress install is 'what the heck is a sidebar and why is it important anyway' - closely followed by 'why isn't this widget WORKING!' A sidebar is a section of your blog ... http://wahm20.com/defining-sidebars/ Before asking someone to add your blogroll to theirs, please consider a couple of things to make the process easier on you - and them. (don't know what blogrolling is?  See our 'definitonals' category - we add to it every time something new needs explained!) 1) Is your blog somewhere they'd link ... http://wahm20.com/is-your-blog-roll-worthy/ A blogroll is a list of links, usually related to the blog that the appear on.  They could be maintained on the site itself (Wordpress has built in link management, as does/did Blogger to a lesser extent) or at a third party site, like deli.cio.us or blogrolling.com. Blogrolling someone is simply ... http://wahm20.com/defining-blogrolls-and-blogrolling/ Welcome to Wahm 2.0! At Wahm 2.0 we're aiming to give you information to support your social networking, marketing via articles, blogging and other techniques that have been labelled Web 2.0, without using the buzz words that are rampant in the community at the moment. Plain english, plainly applicable, with amazing results ... http://wahm20.com/welcome-to-wahm-20/