Blogging - the Start of a New Year

The start of a new year requires making new decisions, and trying different paths. I highly recommend diversifying your blog topics. If your blog is about electronics, talk about research. Or dare to talk about politics. Maybe interject some hot news topics, and dabble with pop culture. Overall what you blog about it not as important as the quality; be thorough and explicit. Provide substantial and useful information. Disseminate ideas, and rational. Post your thoughts, your ideas, your dreams. The internet is about content, and the best original content is what you think about.

Maybe start a new website. Current hosters know thats as simple as buying a new domain, and adding a virtualhost configuration. I like to play with CMS software every once in a while. Joomla 1.5 is coming soon, and given the tremendous hype it should make for highly controllable website interface. I have been extremely impressed with the progress of Joomla 1.5. Its simply cool. If your reading this and do not currently have a Wordpress blog, please start one Its simple, I promise.

Open Source Web Templates - Is it Time to Get Your Feet Wet?

A great way to start learning about html/xhtml, and websites in general, is via templates. OSWD.org hosts user submitted website templates, that are inherently free of charge, with modification being encouraged. Get your hands dirty, open that index.html file and take a peek around, and tear some code apart to see what it does

CMS (Content Management Systems) are also interesting, and can indeed make a very successful website. Open Source CMS provides a rather extensive list of popular software titles. Ohh and the best part, most likely any software you pick will be completely free to use.

Ohh, and always remember, if you do indeed begin the path of learning html/xhtml coding, do take note of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) concepts:

http://www.bgevolution.com/blog/index.php/seo-search-engine-optimization/