Need a handy guide to WordPress?  Try out some of these great links!

• 9 WordPress Alternatives
• Using WordPress for Static Web Sites
• WordPress Plugins for Regular Folks
• 10 Tools to Turn Firefox into WordPress’s Little Helper
• A Better WordPress Admin Layout?
• How to Get Rid of WordPress Comment Spam
• 37 WordPress Theme Databases and Blogs
• 20 Best Multimedia Plugins for WordPress
• Sticky Post Help in WordPress
• WordPress Plugins for Regular Folks

Let me know which ones are your favorites, and what type of WordPress lists, tutorials or more you would like to see in the future!

Sticky posts, will let you bump a story to the top of the homepage – without the need of editing the time stamp over and over again.  This is handy for me, because with the Web Hosting Show’s site, I wanted to keep the most recent podcast pinned to the top of WebHostingShow.com – with new content following bellow it.  With a little template editing, WordPress interface knowledge and some hard work – you can do the same.

How to Get Started with Sticky Posts

The best guide thus far on how to use this WordPress feature that was introduced back in WordPress 2.7 is Nathan Rice’s Definitive Sticky Posts Guide.  Here you can learn how to make a post sticky from within WordPress, and how to edit your theme’s templates to reflect the changes.

Show More Than One Sticky Post

What if you want to get more than just one sticky post in your WordPress blog?  Then you might need to check out how to get the latest sticky posts via WPRecipies.com.  That have a code snippet up that goes right before the loop, that retrieves X most recent sticky posts.

All in all, it is a fun weekend side project to try out – if your looking to add a little something special to your WordPress powered web site.

Want to learn how to use Google Analytics better?

While checking out what it takes to become an authorized Google Analytics consultant, I stumbled across a series of videos online that anybody can use to get to know their own Google Analytics account a little better. 

• Check Out the Google Analytics IQ Lessons

I am still debating if I will or if I will not take the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (IQ) test, however it is good to know these tutorials are here for people in the world who just want to become a more knowledgeable Google Analytics user.

Wormholes

Exploding planets

Draw in Three Dimensions

Poker Set – Playing Cards & Chips

How to Make a Glass Cube

GEMSTONE V2 !

Blowing Bubbles

Spacescape tutorials

Make a “Wave” with Paint.NET

How To Make iPod Ads – Rewrite, with images!

Paint.NET continues to be an inspiration for my creativity.  The more tutorials I find, the more things I want to try out myself – or tweak to fit my own needs.

I have had the idea for some time now to wrap up some of the full length guides (maybe four or five of them) from the Web Hosting Show podcast, and turn them into a short eBook.  Then, when you are downloading – you could pick up the eBook to read or you could have the option to go listen to that “chapter” via the past podcast.

Then later on down the road, if this project is a success I would like to do a few volumes of the same, maybe after four or five guides later on.  My outlook on this is I’d like to help and get the help in the hands of those who need it in anyway that I can.  Since another eBook as been “in the cards” for me for a while, figured this might be the best of both worlds. 

What do YOU think?

+ Handy Guide to Domain Names – Episode 134

Here is a little more information about this episode of the best hosting podcast out there today if I do say so myself (and I just did!):

Need help picking the best domain name? Do you want some assistance finding the domain name register that is right for you? Have you considered the privacy concerns you might be giving up by getting that .com of you very own? I want to tackle domain names from head to toe to give people a guide to the confusing world of domain name registrations.

Go check out the show notes for the visual version, and for the audio version download the mp3 from WebHostingShow.com.

Past Audio Guides to the Web Hosting World

There are many subjects that take a little longer to explain and are confusing to most inside of the web hosting industry. Here are a few of the other special “guide” episodes I have produced.

Web Hosting Job Hunting Guide

So you want to become one of the few, the proud – the average web hosting worker. Now I can tell you from first and experience, it isn’t all fame and glory. It is a job for people who like to help other people. If you don’t have the patience for people with stupid questions, or if your not that interested about how the Web works this job might not be for you. If your enticed then please stand by.

(download the .mp3!)

Setup a Blog (with WordPress) Guide

When it comes to setting up a blog or any other content management system some people find themselves a little lost. From CHMODing the right files to uploading things to the right spot, it can be a headache in the making. Well on this special edition of the Web Hosting Show I’ve decided to step you through the process of getting a blog setup on your own hosting space using WordPress.

(download the .mp3!)

Setting Up Your First Online Store Guide

You know Joe right? Joe lives down the street from you and runs a little comic book store downtown. Joe doesn’t know much about the Internet but he does know that he would like to expand his business. What should Joe do? Joe should look into getting into ecommerce. Now first things first, what is ecommerce? Ecommerce is the conducting of commerce with goods and services over the Internet.

(download the .mp3!)

Have a good idea for the next one I should do? Drop me an e-mail and let me know. I’m always looking for feedback and inspiration.