Entries Tagged as 'Blogs'

Building with WordPress: From sketch to prototype to company website in 5 hours

August 8th, 2008 · 18 Comments

Aside from being a good blogging tool, WordPress is also a lightweight content management system that can be used to run such diverse sites as news or magazine publications, personal and organizational websites. I recently started accepting paid web development work and website management. Several weeks back, I bought a domain, Tugkaran.com (from the Bisaya [...]

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Davao, Cebu bloggers meet

June 30th, 2008 · 9 Comments

A dozen or so Cebu-based bloggers met in Bo’s Coffee Club on OsmeƱa Boulevard in Cebu City yesterday afternoon. Winston organized the gathering by posting an invitation in his site for a meet-up. Winston and Blogie Robillo then shared with Cebu bloggers how they were able to organize the Davao blogging community. DAVAO, CEBU BLOGGERS. [...]

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Cebu bloggers to meet tomorrow

June 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Several Cebu-based bloggers are set to meet tomorrow at 2 p.m. in Bo’s Coffee shop near Capitol and Cebu Doctor’s Hospital. The meet-up is being organized by Winston, the blogger at BatangYagit.com. Quite a few Cebu-based bloggers have already confirmed their attendance. I’m also attending the event and, if I can remember to bring them, [...]

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Escribitionism with Twitter and Fring

March 10th, 2008 · 8 Comments

I never thought that I’d be enjoying it but here I am, using Twitter regularly for the past week. Twitter is a micro-blogging service that has become all the rage among tech-savvy folk and many connectivity addicts since last year. With the service, you can write short (140 characters) updates about yourself and have these [...]

Tags: Blogs · Free services · Highlights · Mobile · Personal · free software

Cebu bloggers meetup

February 4th, 2008 · 11 Comments

If you’re a blogger based in Cebu, please drop by at the iBrowse Internet Cafe near Cebu Doctor’s University at the North Reclamation Area on Thursday, Feb. 7 at 6:00 p.m. We are organizing a short blogger meet-up there with the indefatigable DigitalFilipino founder Janette Toral. Janette will be in Cebu for a workshop on [...]

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Enhancing blog comments with avatars

August 22nd, 2007 · 3 Comments

I’ve just re-enabled Gravatar support for this blog. Gravatar, for globally-recognized avatar, is a service that publishes avatars or graphic representations of people who comment in your blog. Check out my previous posts to see gravatar in action. I used the service some time last year but stopped it after a few months when I [...]

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