So, do you run a blog or website? If yes, what would you like to identify as: a Blogger or a webmaster.

One can’t be both at any given time, though you can change roles at different times. Webmaster, as I would define is  a person who master his website, while a blogger is one who keeps in the constant flow of blog content and updating.

Even though both: webmaster and blogger are different we all still tend/try to be both. However, in most cases one ends up as a Blogger rather than a Webmaster. So, what differentiate a blogger from a webmaster, here goes…

1. Look and Design of a site - A Blogger would put all his content on a blog with pre-designed template. Rarely one would see a person designing his own template. In some case, you will see Bloggers paying up to get custom made templates, but that is it. Continue reading …

After slew of recent website makeovers like Ibnlive, NDTV, Indiatimes etc MTVindia.com follows them.

However, story here is bit different. It is the complete brand MTV that is being revamped. So what is new…. for the starters its no longer MTV enjoy!

Now the punch line is… its my MTV. Channel head indicate shift from generic music channel to a Youth Channel. The new programming will include shows on food, alternative careers, style, etc. Continue reading …

Well, if you are an Indian webmaster (just like me) you must be knowing few options to earn online by monetizing your site or blog.

Here are few really Good India specific options to show advertisements on your blog or site and earn money… honey!

1. Tyroo: After Google Adsense I tried this ad network. I must add Tyroo is really a good alternative or add one to Google AdSense (you can use either way).

I used it with Google Adsense and it worked really well, helping me earn few thousand rupees. Best part about Tyroo is: it shows only quality adsof advertisers like Microsoft, ezeego etc. Continue reading …

RSS feed is one the of the easiest way to get the latest information. Traditionally one would use an RSS reader to read RSS feed.

Now, you can easily show RSS feed from any source on a Wordpress Blog using FirstRSS and SideRSS WP Plugins.

This plugin requires: WordPress 2 or greater and PHP 4 or greater.

You can download and review this plugin here…

UPDATE - Here is another very Good Wordpress Plugin to Show RSS Feed as HTML in your Wordpress Blog. In case above one does not work, please give a shot to this one.

QuickRSS, a Wordpress Plugin to show RSS Feed. Click here for demo & download.

I have been experimenting with image and ad placement these days. When I tried to put ad block in a post and tried to warp post content around it… man it did not work.

But with little research and Googling around, was able to do so in few minutes. I am sure some of you, want to know how? In fact, it is very easy, for both image and AdSense block one has to use different tags.

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Warp Text around an Image:
1. Make sure your image size in not bigger than the post column width.
2. After you save and upload image to your server, get the hyperlink for that and then add the following code for the placement.
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- stunning retro graphics
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- high-score list

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