According to a recent study, 44% of small businesses do not have websites! With so many obvious benefits from having a website, what is stopping these business owners from getting on the web?

We can all agree that WordPress has some staunch supporters. But who would have thought that one fanatical user would actually get the WP logo permanently tattooed on his arm?!

WordPress just released version 2.7.1, and you should upgrade now. There are some very useful bug fixes and enhancements.

The popular Smarty Template Engine is full of great features, but is not the most intuitive system for developers to learn to use. And it doesn’t help that the documentation is a bit scanty. So here is the simplest and most complete tutorial you will find on writing a custom function for your Smarty templates.

Plugins have helped transform WordPress from a simple blog-publishing application to a versatile content management system. But the very plugins that have made WordPress so great, could also be ruining it.

When businesses or freelancers decide to create blogs to supplement their websites, one question always pops up: “Where should the new blog be located?” Or in other words, should the blog be integrated into the preexisting website, or should it reside in a subdirectory, a subdomain, or on a completely new domain?

Editing a phpBB template can be rather exasperating because you don’t have freedom to add dynamic code. In fact, if you do add php code to your template, you will find that it won’t be recognized. So what do you do?

The best thing about blogs is that they are naturally optimized for search engines. But that doesn’t mean that your ‘search engine optimization’ work is done. Read this article for 5 easy tips to further optimize your WordPress blog.