Once I had WordPress up and running I wanted answers to the following:
- How to protect the site from comment spam?
- How to generate a Sitemap and tell search engines about it?
- How to promote the site?
- How to identify and display the more popular content?
- How to display images in a user friendly gallery?
At first I tried the most popular plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory that seemed to do what I wanted. However, I soon ran into trouble. Some were an overkill for what I needed, some interfered with each other, some did things I just didn’t like. I also didn’t like the cumulative impact these installs and uninstalls had on my database. Continue reading »
I selected WordPress based on its popularity. My simplistic reason being that any software this popular should be able to provide anything I’m going to need from a blogging tool.
To date I’m happy with my decision and learnt much whilst migrating the previous version of this site to WordPress. Here is a list of the things I believe are useful. Continue reading »
Daedalus Young of Daedalus Young Media created this great banner for us.
Even though we never used this banner it certainly captured the concept of SLBounty. It clearly shows how SLBounty intended to help bridge the gap (or is that river) between content creators and those who wanted custom content created.
You can view the full size image at this deviantART page.
It is with some sadness that I’m taking the SLBounty.com site down. It is even harder to acknowledge that the service failed after all the effort that went into creating it. However, I learnt much from this experience and thought it worthy of at least one post.
If you wish to know more about what SLBounty.com was, how it looked, and what it tried to do, you should read A tour of SLBounty before continuing. Continue reading »
edit: SLBounty.com no longer exists. See SLBounty is no more for details.
SLBounty is an online marketplace for getting custom Second Life stuff built. We created the service to enable residents who want Second Life things done to collaborate with those who have the skills to supply them. Continue reading »
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