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How do I use a blog theme? »

These instructions are for Wordpress themes.
Download your chosen theme. You will probably have to unzip it.
Unzip the files to the Wordpress themes folder on your blog’s server.
This will probably be in the htdocs folder, if your server uses Apache, and called something like:
…….\htdocs\wordpress\wp-content\themes
Now go into your admin account for Wordpress.
Pick Presentation, as shown.

Then [...]

Firestats »

FireStats is a system for getting web statistics. You can download it from firestats.cc homepage or you can get it as a WordPress plugin for a blog.
It gives you a fascinating insight into how many hits your pages are getting, which pages are getting accesssed, how they got there, what browsers and operating systems [...]

Spam comments coming from reserved namespaces »

(Following up on the last post about spam IPs) The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) published an IP list showing the allocation of IP blocks. According to this, all IPs starting with:

5 and 95 are IANA reserved
6 are US Army
18 are MIT

That leaves 85 and 75 as possibly real IPs.
Tags: IP Address, Blacklist, [...]

What does HTML stand for? »

Answer: HTML refers to HyperText Markup Language. HTML is the language used to create most web pages. Tags are added to the text to identify the structure of the web page – headings, paragraphs – and to embed images and forms. The [...]