The Beta News

WooThemes 4 for 1 Christmas Special

The theme I’m currently using is from WooThemes it’s called Fresh News. It’s probably the best theme I’ve ever owned and tried.
The support is great, it’s easy to set-up and customise and according to experts (Thank you Dan) it’s validated and everything is peachy.
This Halloween they had a sale, buy 1 theme and get 2 [...]

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The Beta News Gets A New Look

As you’ve probably noticed, The Beta News has recieved a new look. I wasn’t quite sure that the old theme encouraged people to comment on my posts, and after all, commenting and discussing is what blogging is all about.
So I’ve bought this lovely Wordpress theme from WooThemes called FreshNews.
Until now I’m more than happy with [...]

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Wordpress Help - Where Can I Learn More About Wordpress

I’ve found several brilliant where you can get some really good advice and help with your Wordpress blog.

These pages has helped me a lot in the past and I keep returning to see what new I can learn and how I can improve my blog.

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Blogging Tips - Wordpress Themes

This is the fifth part of my Wordpress bloggin tips project - Today: Themes
Themes…ahh the wonderful themes. You can spend a lot of time looking for themes. There are so many beautiful theme out there. It makes it very hard to pick.
I’ve had this blog for two years now and I’ve changed my theme four [...]

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Blogging Tips - Wordpress Plugins

This is part four of the blogging tips project - Today: Wordpress Plugins
There are tons of plugins for Wordpress out there. Most of them are very useful, some are useless and others are nice to have. I’ll let it up to you which ones you prefer but here is a list of the ones I’m [...]

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Alexa Rank - How I Will Improve It

What is your Alexa Rank? Currently mine is 532,913. It has improved 60,000 the last week alone, all I did was to install the Alexa extension in Firefox and Flock.
David Airey has written two articles with some great insights and references to many informative posts. For instance DoshDosh and Andy Beard. Alexa Rank - What [...]

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New Logo For Petersen Inc.

Until now I have received two logos from some very helpful readers.
This one from Jacob from Clazh.com. He has some really great themes by the way.

and this one from Ganesh

Thank you very much to both of you. I REALLY appreciate it.
I would love to get couple more and make a contest out of it [...]

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No More Blank Notification Mails!

Since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.2 I’ve received blank notification mails everytime someone posted a comment. It has driven me…well almost crazy, but finally I found out what was wrong. My Wordpress Backup-plugin caused the problem. I am not sure why, but I’ve updated the plugin and now everything is running smoothly again. My sincere [...]

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Upgraded to Wordpress 2.2

I just upgraded Petersen Inc. and three other blogs to Wordpress 2.2. It went great on three of the blogs, while I ran into a few minor issues with the Wordpress upgrade on this blog.

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Did You Ever Join a Movement?

Join the I Follow-movement and help spread the link love.

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