In todays busy world it can be really hard to find the time to balance all of your daily activities without driving yourself mad. A good idea is to try and combine a few of these so that you get most out of your time and also ensure that you spend enough time with your children.

• When practicing your next presentation let the children sit and pretend they are grown up business men and women.
• When going for your daily jog grab yourself one of those jogging strollers and take the little ones with you.
• When doing the shopping assign each child with the task of finding something on the list. One child finds the milk and the other can find the bread.

Remember life is far too short and moves at a brilliant speed - take advantage of the time you have with your children, before you know it they will be grown up and moved on.

Experiment: No G
19/11/07

As you may have noticed we have completely removed G ads from our site. This experiment is to see if we can gain higher profits without having to use an external advertising source.

Many sites rely on an external adverting companies to gain profits for their site to pay for hosting, maintenance etc. This experiment will tell if its really necessary to rely on the big named advertisers or not.

This experiment was inspired by recent discussions on big advertising companies dictating what you can and cannot do on your own sites.

Let’s see what happens  :wink:

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Plugin: WP Contact Form
Author: Kristin K Wangen
Description: This plugin will add a functional contact us page to your WP site.
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This is a must have plugin for just about any WordPress site. This plugin will add a “Contact Us” page to your site so that your readers may contact you.

Excerpt:

WP Contact Form III is a simple contact form is based on Ryan Duff’s WP Contact Form and Doug Karr’s challenge (antispam) mod for Ryan’s original form.

What I’ve added (here’s where the “III” comes in..)i s giving your visitors the option to specify the subject of their email, - and after a lot of testing - valid xhtml

The look of form can be customize by editing contactform.css

A great plugin with little to no effort to install. Recommended!

Plugin: Share This
Author: Alex King
Description: Social Bookmarking Plugin
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Share this is an excellent plugin for social bookmarking. The plugin adds a link and or button the the footer of every post making is easy for your readers to quickly bookmark the page or even share it with a friend.

Excerpt:

* Support for non-WordPress platforms.
* Choose your social web services and easy color configuration.
* Sending using AIM, SMS, Facebook and MySpace.
* Stats for publishers.
* Import address books.

All in all a great plugin that is most helpful for building relevant traffic. Recommended.

Would you like to let Google blog search know about your blog and all of its posts? Of course you would! In order to do this you will want to add G’s ping service in your admin area, I will show you how to do this below.

Go to your WordPress admin area > Options > Writting - At the bottom of your page you will see a text area with pingomatic likely already there. Now in that text box on the next link add the following

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

Now click on the update button and you are good to go. Try making a new post on your site and see what happens.

Plugin: WP-PostRatings
Author: Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan
Description: Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog’s post/page.
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I really like this plugin. What it does is add a pretty little star rating system below each post/page to allow your readers to rate your posts. There is also a widget you can use that will display the top rated posts on your sidebar.

Excerpt:

* NEW: Works For WordPress 2.3 Only
* NEW: Ability To Embed [ratings=1] Into Post/Excerpt, Where 1 Is The ID Of The Post/Page Ratings You Want To Display
* NEW: Ability To Embed [ratings_results=1] Into Post/Excerpt, Where 1 Is The ID Of The Post/Page Ratings Results You Want To Display
* NEW: Ability To Support Mutiple Categories For get_highest_rated_category. By: Dirceu P. Junior
* NEW: Ability To Embed ratings Into Excerpt
* NEW: Added Template For No Permission To Rate
* NEW: Ability To Filter Logs By Post ID, User and Rating
* NEW: Added heart, heart_crystal, plusminus, plusminus_crystal, stars_crystal, thumbs, tickcross, tickcross_crystal and updown_crystal Rating Styles
* NEW: Supports Up/Down Or Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down Rating
* NEW: Supports Custom Image For Individual Rating Scale
* NEW: WP-Cache Compatible By Nir Aides
* NEW: Highest Rated Widge And Most Rated Widget Added
* NEW: Ability To Uninstall WP-PostRatings
* NEW: Uses WP-Stats Filter To Add Stats Into WP-Stats Page
* FIXED: Some Translation Bug In postrating-usage.php

This plugin is a great addition to any WP blog if you are looking to get your readers more involved in your site. Find out what your readers like and give them more of it! Recommended.

Plugin: Related Posts
Author: Aizatto
Description: This plugin will add a list of links to related posts at the end of your entry.
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This is a great plugin for SEO. What it does is add a list of related posts to the foot of your entry. I’m sure you have heard of cross advertising? This is seen on many sites where they have a list of similar products below each product you view, well this is a similar method called CrossPosting. Look at these features.

Excerpt:

New Features

* Trim the length of your title
* Limit to only showing related posts to the post’s page itself
* Easier CSS customization, by moving it the administration menu
* Made it possible to inject the php code, to customize where you want it placed. So basically like the old Related Posts Plugin
* Mixture of posts with and without excerpts. For example, first 3 posts have excerpts, remaining 2 dont. So it doesn’t look as cluttered.

Features

* Automatically inserts the ‘Related Posts’ to the bottom of your post
* No need to inject SQL
* Includes into the RSS feed
* Customize apperance via CSS

Now to get the full benefit of this plugin working for you you will want to enable “Full Text” for your RSS feeds. This will include a batch of links back to your site from any site using your feed! Excellent Plugin - Recommened!

Plugin: Akismet
Author: Akismet
Description: A collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging.
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Akismet is included with any default installation of WordPress. You only need to enable it from the plugins menu and then enter your API key. Instructions on how to get your API key can be found on the Akismet website. Lets check out more.

Excerpt:

When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your blog it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down.

Brilliant plugin that allows your legit readers to leave comments and catches the naughty spammers! No more weeding through hundreds of comments to find ones by real people. Recommended.

Plugin: Google (XML) Sitemap Generator
Author: Arne Brachhold
Description: This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.
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This is yet another must have for your WordPress blog. Once you have installed, configured and generated your sitemap you will want to be sure you submit it to Yahoo, Google, MSN and ASK. Now lets see some features.

Excerpt:

* Available for all WordPress versions since 1.5
* No PHP skills or file changes needed
* User interface to customize all parameters like priorities etc.
* Available in many languages
* Generates automatically a sitemap for all types of WordPress pages
* Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments
* Tells Ask.com, Google and YAHOO about changes via ping
* Includes a WordPress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap
* Generates a static XML file as well as a zipped version
* …and many more!

Be sure to add a link to your sitemap in your blogs footer so search bots can find it easily. Great plugin that takes only minutes to set up! Recommended.