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This blog is by no means the product of individual ingenuity or effort. The reason that blogging succeeds beyond expectations is because of tireless efforts of many to the joint pool.
Platform
Nerve Endings Firing Away is powered by the ever-so excellent blogging platform, Wordpress 2.8. The immense wealth of resources in forms of tips and pointers at Codex were largely instrumental in setting this up. Wordpress is built on a php platform. You will need to have your own domain and webspace. If all the simple code frightens you, there is always a free account for you at Wordpress.com.
Featured Theme
This simple yet elegant Wordpress theme, iFace is designed by Abhijit Nadgouda. I have modified it to adapt it to my needs.
Plugins
The power of Wordpress also lies in its plugins that give you that perfect look you wanted without having to code a single line. I am what you would call a plugin whore. This blog is plugged in on:
- Adsense – Who Sees Ads (makes for easy insertion of Adsense ads)
- Advanced Search (extends WordPress’s search capability)
- Akismet (spam protection)
- All in One SEO (makes your blog and pages SEO-friendly)
- Amazon Autolink (inserts your Amazon referral link on the fly)
- Antileech (prevents errant parties from stealing your content and bandwidth)
- AsideShop (creates inline asides without mucking around in the code)
- Feedburnber Replacement Plugin (directs all feeds to Feedburner)
- Google XML Sitemaps (generates a sitemap for search engines for better indexing)
- Google Sitemaps (makes site Google-compatible)
- Intense Debate (comments enhancement incl.threading)
- Movie Ratings (to display ratings of movies you have seen)
- Mint Popular Posts (Creates a list of popular posts based on an attached Mint tracking system)
- Random Redirect (redirects visitors to a random post on your blog)
- Recent Posts (creates a list of recent posts)
- Recent Comments (creates a list of recent comments)
- Related Posts (gives you a list of related post based on keywords)
- Permalink Redirect (redirects modified permalink structures to new ones)
- SRG Clean Archives (creates a SEO-friendly sitemap of your archives)
- Twitter for WordPress (inserts Twitter updates on your blog)
- What would Seth Godin do (inserts message for new visitors)
- WP-ContactForm (creates a secure contact form)
- WP-Polls (creates AJAX polls for your blog)
Desi Helpline
I also like to thank Saket, Abhijit and Chetan for patiently answering my Wordpress-related questions and tolerating my unforgivable ineptitude for coding.
