Art of Blogging

Tag Clouds according to Wikipedia: “A tag cloud (more traditionally known as a weighted list in the field of visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags used on a website. Often, more frequently used tags are depicted in a larger font or otherwise emphasized, while the displayed order is generally alphabetical… Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead to a collection of items that are associated with that tag.”

For a live example of them, take a look at the end of this post and also on the bottom of my sidebar.php.

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I will speak regularly on the importance of comments to a blog, I am sure. Today, I am going to keep it basic.

Comments are part of what makes blogs such a successful method to convey ideas. They are also a major part in that new-fangled Web 2.0 stuff.

Since blog comments are important, the people making them are important too, right?

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Blog’s all have a navigation column and in WordPress, this is called the Sidebar. The actual file that controls this located in your themes/ directory and is called sidebar.php. If you want to add things like advertisement to your sidebar, this is the file to edit. Notice, if you change your blog theme, you will have to edit the new sidebar.php in the new theme. Today, I will show you how to find this file and how to edit it.

Before we get started…

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