As many of you already know, my PC recently died, fortunately, just over a week ago I got a tax rebate of £400 and so decided to use that to build a new PC, which I did last week-end. A number of you have expressed interest in what kind of a system I put together, so this post is to answer those questions.

Like any other blogger, I am always on the lookout for alternate sources of traffic. About a month ago I found Tutorialized.com. The site is fairly well laid out with a clean design.

This is just an update on what’s going on here. As I mentioned in The March $100 winner, a problem and a rant, my PC crapped out on me last week. I have a Mac 800Mhz G4 that I use for testing web stuff on and I have been forced to use this for now.

So far in this How To Style Your Comments series we have been organizing exactly what we want to show in our comment area. In this part we are going to get down to the actual styling. If you are looking for inspiration there are several sites you can have a look at that have collections of comment designs:

In this second part of the how to style your comments series I will show you how to seperate or remove track-backs and pings from the comments. there are many tutorials out there on this subject, but many of them can be confusing to the non programmer as they say find this line and add this after or before it. This tutorial is different, it shows you all the needed code in comments.php so that you can see exactly where the additional code goes.

The comment area of a blog is often neglected in terms of design and usability when compared with the rest of the site, so I’m going to show you a number of ways that it can be improved. I shall be using the default theme that comes with Wordpress.

Find out who won the $100 for March. You will also find out where I have been for the last few days and I go on a mini rantage.

I have already written about the importance of having your pages validated. One thing that has bugged me since joining EntreCard is that the widget does not produce valid code, instead there are three warnings or errors produced.