By design, blogs seek to foster conversation. You post, ask for comments, and look to engage in discussion. The lifetime of a post can exist long after you press “Publish.”
But a single post isn’t the only thing you want your readers to pursue. You want them to come back, engage with others, explore other posts, [...]

One of the challenges that web developers face is providing a consistent experience across not only a variety of web browsers but operating systems, as well. This experience not only translates to the layout of a website, but the typography, too.
There are some fonts that are shared between operating systems (such as Arial, Times New [...]

With all the hotness of sharing things in a viral nature these days it’s almost a requirement to have some of the newest sharing mechanisms in order.
So, enter Google’s new Buzz-It!
It’s actually really easy to add this feature to your Wordpress blog. Just copy and paste the following code anywhere in your the “Wordpress Loop” [...]

Have you seen our sidebars on all the 8BIT Network sites? We’ve got a “Top Weekly Commenters” spot just for you, our lovely community.
The problem is that some of you haven’t registered for each of the sites and haven’t given us your blog address and/or site URL to give you love back. See those “white” [...]

Being a church web designer, I often find myself needing to set up a podcast. I have used several different methods to achieve this in WordPress (my platform of choice), but only a few stand out as being really great options.
Let me first start by saying that PodPress, as popular as it may be, is [...]

We’ve been hard at work tweaking the design, running code queries, and even installing new applications to make this iteration of ChurchCrunch (and the rest of the 8BIT Network) the best community platform ever.
I’ve learned a lot about how this community responds to change and have taken extensive notes on how to make it better. [...]

I really dig PHP. I code it in nearly every single day and I have found it to be extremely satisfactory in developing web apps. It’s far from perfect and it’s use is always contextual but it does a good, sound job consistently.
That’s why I’m a fan, and that’s why my ears are perked about [...]

I’ve been using a lot of landing pages recently (if you haven’t noticed) and even last night I was using one as I swapped out the theme for ChurchCrunch (you can view it here still).
Well, someone asked me how I was accomplishing this and the answer is easy: The Members Only Wordpress Plugin.
Seriously, this plugin [...]

I recently blogged here about the best Wordpress Content backup plugin ever and now, to complete the full backup experience, is my top choice for my MYSQL Database Backup Plugin: DBC Backup.
The thing honestly couldn’t be any easier. Light weight, configurable, and extremely simple, it beats the pants off of really any large and bloated [...]

I got my bill for last month’s bandwidth usage from Amazon S3 and apparently I’m using a lot more traffic than last month by the cost ($10.11). Exciting! Generally this means that I’m getting more traffic which is reasonable since I’ve had some posts (like this one) which got hit hard.
So far, Amazon S3 has [...]