I was planning to release this free WordPress theme for a long time now. I stopped myself from doing it because of the changing trends. Nowadays, a lot of people are preferring magazine-styled themes, themes with super-duper slide shows, nifty effects and all that jazz!

But I am sure that there still exists a class of people who admire simple, minimalistic, and aesthetic themes. This was the sole reason of Blog Oh! Blog being famous in the first place. So, my new theme “Ultima” is dedicated to all those simple-minded bloggers and authors.

This is a soft-colored, rounded theme that totally aims at content and nothing else. This 2-column theme is all about the “complexity of simple things”… Enjoy!
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Today, I will list some very cool JavaScript hacks and tricks that you can use creatively or just have plain fun. To make each one of these codes work, all you have to do is copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser window and hit “Enter”. So here they are :-

Play the “Lord of the Web”

This code lets you edit any page/website in real-time . With Firefox, you can even edit and save the modified pages to your computer. Very nifty code!

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

The Big Wheel

This piece of code pulls off all the images from your web page and rotates them in a circle. Really makes any page go naked (without its images). The best place to test is a website with many images. (Google Images for an example)

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName("img"); DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+"px"; DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+"px"}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

If you look carefully in the above code, its rotating the HTML “img” tag. Just replace it with “a” or “p” and watch some links or text rotate instead of images. Read more

“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”

Breaking that silence, I present to you a refreshingly new Premium WordPress theme called “Expression“. This is a soft-colored WordPress theme with a minimalistic but feature packed approach. Here are some features of this premium theme :-

• Full Screen-width to fit all resolutions
• Tabbed menu
• Advertisement space for 125×125 & 468×60 banner ads
• A unique Ticker to display custom news & information to your users
• Social Bookmarking options under every post
• Excerpt Boxes for older posts
• Widget-ready sidebar
• CSS/XHTML validated
• Theme Options

This is the first time that I am releasing a Premium theme with “Theme Options” that let you change elements of your theme directly through the WordPress Administration panel. Read more

Before you start reading this article, let me inform you that my Adsense account was banned recently. Yes, it was banned a while ago due to my sheer negligence . A while back, I had put adsense code in some of the free WordPress themes that are available here on Blog Oh! Blog. This was not a problem until some of the free themes got picked up and started getting used by porn blogs and other such XXX sites. Though Google did warn me that my code is being used by XXX sites, I hardly paid attention because I was sure that I don’t own any such sites ( I totally forgot that my code was present in the free themes and neither did I feel the need to open those sites – which could have given me a clue). Anyway, my ass got banned after some time… I will share with all of you how Google let me create a new Adsense account (which is almost rare) at the end of this article, so read on!

Google, being the indisputable leader in search engines from then until now, is placing a high importance on the quality and relevancy of its search engines. Most especially now that the company is public property. In order to keep the shareholders and users of its engines happy, the quality of the returned results are given extreme importance. Read more

I was recently playing around with few online tools that let you measure your Link Popularity. These tools let you compare your website with 2-3 different other websites and show you a chart based on incoming links from Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines. I was amazed to find out that Blog Oh! Blog is far ahead than many popular & established blogs (and we are just one year old). Take a look at the following pictures and you will get an idea :-

These shots were generated using this tool :- Check Link Popularity

All these incoming links are a contribution from people who use the free themes available on Blog Oh! Blog. I thank you all for making Blog Oh! Blog a success

Its very important to analyze the traffic that comes to your website because it can really make or break your website. But before you can make full use of this traffic analysis, you must understand how to interpret this data.

Hosting companies will usually provide you with basic web traffic information that you will have to interpret and make pertinent use of. However, the data you receive from your hosting companies can be overwhelming if you don’t understand how to apply it to your particular business and website. Let’s start by examining the most basic data – the average visitors to your site on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

These figures are the most accurate measure of your website’s activity. It would appear on the surface that the more traffic you see recorded, the better you can assume your website is doing, but this is mostly an inaccurate perception. You must also look at the behavior of your website visitors to accurately gauge the effectiveness of your site.

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I present to you a very colorful and feature packed WordPress theme that has all the right ingredients to replace your current blog theme. Please welcome “Firebug“! A new WordPress theme from Blog Oh! Blog.

Firebug is a dark (but colorful) theme with two widget-ready sidebars, space for 125×125 banner ads, social tagging options at the end of each post, Gravatar ready comments, feed subscription options, WordPress 2.5+ Gallery feature, and much more. I have also included the logo.psd file in the images folder of the theme so that you can replace the logo.gif file with your own modified version. The WordPress theme is CSS/XHTML validated and has been tested with Firefox, Internet Explorer 6/7 and Safari.

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If you are a blogger and have been thinking of writing an ebook for a long time, here are some tips to help you in your endeavor.

When you look at the whole project, it seems like an impossible task. That’s why you have to break it down into manageable tasks. Think of climbing a mountain. You are standing at the foot of it and looking up at its summit vanishing into the clouds. How can you possibly scale such an immense and dangerous mountain?

There is only one way to climb a mountain ? Step by step.

Now think of writing your ebook in the same light. You must create it step by step, and one day, you will take that last step and find yourself standing on the summit with your head in the clouds.

The first thing you have to do, as if you actually were a mountain climber, is to get organized. Instead of climbing gear, however, you must organize your thoughts. There are some steps you should take before you begin. Once you’ve gone through the following list, you will be ready to actually begin writing your ebook.
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The time has come to declare the winners for the Premium Wordpress themes contest. There were a total of 40 contestants who participated in this contest. Out of the participating bloggers, five have won the rights to Premium WordPress themes and out of those lucky five, one has been chosen to get his blog reviewed on Blog Oh! Blog. The winning entries have been selected through a lucky draw and here are the winners :-

5 Premium Theme Winners

http://bridex.wordpress.com

http://www.stuff.web.id (Prize Given Out)
http://geniushackers.com/blog (Prize Given Out)
http://www.blogbucks.net (Prize Given Out)
http://pinoyteens.net (Prize Given Out)

Blog Oh! Blog Review Winner

http://geniushackers.com

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A couple was holidaying in Florida to celebrate their first anniversary of marriage. One morning the wife saw the husband wake up and go to the toilet. To the wife’s amusement, he stayed there for a very long time. As time passed, the wife became suspicious, as there was no sound of running water or the husband singing a bathroom hit. As she knocked the door and opened it, she found him sitting on the pot with the laptop stuck on his lap. He was blogging over a wireless link.

Blogging has become the new way of livelihood for many and fun for the idle ones. But there are also people for whom blogging has turned into an obsession instead of being a harmless hobby.

Given below are some real facts that can help you see the real picture and also to justify if you are actually a blogging addict. Read more