Today marks the release of Movable Type 4 (MT4) beta version! By the way, MT is an alternative to the popular WordPress blogging platform. It is developed by Six Apart.

MT4 is believed to target business bloggers and further expand its market share. Currently Six Apart is already having some enterprise customers such as Intel Corp., Oracle Corp., Boeing, The Washington Post and New York University.

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Movable Type 4 has been rearchitected to simplify companies’ management and deployment of corporate blogs and the creation of online communities, Six Apart officials said.

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Movable Type 4 Targets Business Blogging Market

After 10 days since I released my first WordPress theme named Ads Minded on May 4, 2005, here comes the wide version of the theme.

The main difference between the normal version and wide version is the width. The normal one is having the width of 770px whereas the wide version will have a width of 1000px. This version suits you if most of your blog readers are using screen resolution larger than 1024 x 768.

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Ads Minded Wide Version

Finally I completed my first ever WordPress theme.
Hope you like it.

Alright, let’s get into the introduction of Ads Minded WordPress Theme.

Introduction

Nowadays, publishing contextual advertisement (such as Google AdSense) on WordPress blog is nothing special. Hence, I had a thought of building a WordPress theme with the consideration of publishing as many advertisements on the blog and yet not compromising the content area and design of the blog.

Ads Minded WordPress Theme was finally completed today and will be officially running on this blog. The following are the features of the theme :-

• WordPress 1.5 & 2.0+ compatible
• XHTML compatible codes
• W3C CSS compatible codes
• 3 columns with an optional square advertisement (Shows on main page) on top of the sidebars
• Search engine friendly and easy advertisement placement
• Comes with a few useful plugins written by me and others
• Just browse around the demo you will have a better idea. :)

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AdSense WordPress Theme – Ads Minded

Hi all,

Just giving you all a brief introduction of my first every WordPress plugin – Submit It.

Introduction

Submit It helps reader to submit a particular post of yours and bookmark it at any of the popular blog services as linked in the plugin. For example, if your reader has an account at Del.icio.us and would like to bookmark one of your post, he/she just have to submit the post via the link in this plugin. in other words, Submit It offers you or your reader a fast way to bookmark a post.

The feature of Submit It is as follows :-

• WordPress 2.0 compatible
• XHTML compatibled codes
• Just add 1 line of code to use this plugin
• Layout customization using CSS
• Services included in this plugin :-
  • Technorati
  • Feedster
  • Bloglines
  • Del.icio.us
  • Spurl
  • Furl
  • Simpy
  • Blink
  • Digg

Requirements

This plugin was tested using WordPress 1.5.2 and 2.0.1, so it should work on any recent WordPress 1.5+ version to the latest version. If you are using an older version, I recommend that you to upgrade to the latest version.

Installation

Only 2 steps :-

• 1. Download the Zip file and extract everything and put them into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Activate the plugin from the Plugins menu in WordPress administration page.
• 2. Put < ?php add_submit_it(); ?> into your template (usually index.php or single.php)

You should see the following file structure in your /wp-content/plugins/ folder :-

• plugins folder
  • submititicons folder (containing all icons)
  • submitit.php
  • submititstyle.css

That’s it. :)

Please feel free to leave your blog address in the comment, I will list all the blogs using this plugin for free advertisement.

• Hi Tech Blog

{tags}Wordpress, Plugin, WordPress Plugin, Submit It, Bookmark{/tags}

Hi everyone,

I’m so glad I finished my first ever WordPress plugin today. I named it Submit It.

Submit It is just a simple plugin as shown in the picture. You can try it out at the end the written artile in any post. The plugin will insert some pieces of codes in every single page to show the links. Basically, the plugin allows you or your readers to submit a particular post of yours and bookmark it at any of the popular blog services as linked in the plugin.

I saw these links in quite a lot of blogs but have not seen any plugin for it. So, I created myself after one of my blog buddies, n305er sent me some of the basic codes. Submit It plugin was created with “easy to use” goal in mind. You just need to put only 1 line of code into the PHP file and start using the plugin.

I will write a detail tutorial of installing this plugin later in a separate page so that everyone can freely download and install it into your WordPress blog.

By the way, I’m not a PHP programmer expert, so if you find any bug or problem using the plugin, please let me know. Fell free to tell me your opinion about this simple plugin as well, like do you find it useful?
Thanks.

AJAX is no longer a new term in web designing industry as we have noticed quite a number of websites are utilizing this latest web technology nowadays. Among the famous websites integrating AJAX are Google Personalized Homepage, My Yahoo and Kahuna, the next generation Hotmail service.

However, I have not seen any WordPress theme integrating AJAX until I come across BloXpress. Even though BloXpress theme is still in beta version at the moment, the theme offers quite a number of new features in addition to normal features a blog has.
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AJAX based WordPress Blog