Work, Work, Work! That is how most people run their websites. And I am not saying it is wrong because that does play a part in making a website or a blog a successful one. But alot of time people are not comfortable with what they do. Or sometimes even when they are comfortable with what they do, they are just stressed out so they can’t do a good job at what they are doing. In this post I will be striking on those two points.

People who are not comfortable with what they do!

There are tons of webmasters who are not comfortable with what they are doing but they are still trying to go at it in a hope of making big money. There are new webmasters or bloggers who are starting are also going at their new aventures while they are not comfortable with it. This doesn’t come out right most of the times. Why? Well take blog as an example. I have seen people who say well it sounds easy, I will just do what you do and earn money from that. Yes there is money to be made, but people have to see that writing one post, or two post a day is the work that I or any other blogger put in.

Sometimes it gets tough to write even one post a day because I run out of ideas, sometimes it is very easy and I can write 3 post a day. But I try to stay consistent and do one post a day with additional ones if absolutely necessary. The reason why I think I can keep doing that is because I like writing a new post and make Balkhis a bigger and better resource for my users and myself. Sometimes when people are in the industry for just money, it gets tough. It gets even tougher when people doesn’t have a wide background about the niche they are writing about. My advice to the new bloggers and Webmasters is to always think whether they are comfortable with what they are doing before they start doing that.

Working in a Comfortable environment

Stress is all around us. A key to produce a quality product is to work in a comfortable environment on something that you are comfortable working at. So when you are making your own workplace think whether your seat is comfortable. Whether you have everything that you need. I have realized that I work well when I am comfortable and relaxed, so often times I am working at my desk with a roll over chair. But I also like to work on my bed sometimes because I am in a creative mode. Sitting with a straight back for 8 hours sometimes can get tough. Specially when you are feeling sick like me right now. You need to find a better and more comfortable work environment. That is the best tip I can give to anyone. When you are working with something comfortable and in a comfortable environment the results often turns out to be very good.

Check out what the cool thing I got which enabled me to write this post and create a design for my client even when I am sick.

I can adjust which angle I want my laptop at. It have a mouse pad built in. It can also be adjusted. It also have a light bulb for if you work at night. Easily fit on your lap and can be put anywhere you like. Very light weight.

If you get sick this is best to use as your work station.

I bought it today at Bed Bath and Beyond for only $19.99 + Tax. (Original Price $29.99) – Use this Printable Bed Bath and Beyond Coupon (It is expired but they usually take it) Even without it, it is not that expensive.

Wordpress has announced the release of another stable version (Wordpress 2.6 Tyner). It is named after a Jazz Pianist McCoy Tyner. This new update comes with some great features that I believe definately makes wordpress a much more stronger CMS system.

Important features that Wordpress 2.6 consist is:

Word count! Never guess how many words are in your post anymore.

Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.

Bulk management of plugins.

A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.

Drag-and-drop reordering of Galleries.

Plugin update notification bubble.

Customizable default avatars.

You can now upload media when in full-screen mode.

Remote publishing via XML-RPC and APP is now secure (off) by default, but you can turn it on easily through the options screen.

Full SSL support in the core, and the ability to force SSL for security.

You can now have many thousands of pages or categories with no interface issues.

Ability to move your wp-config file and wp-content directories to a custom location, for “clean” SVN checkouts.

Select a range of checkboxes with “shift-click.”

You can toggle between the Flash uploader and the classic one.

A number of proactive security enhancements, including cookies and database interactions.

Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.

Wordpress has prepared a short video that gives an overview of this new release

Download Wordpress 2.6 (Tyner) NOW

Hey Balkhis Users, I don’t do this very often, but this time the EEEnkay Blog’s Market Leverage Contest is being held at Enkay Blog who has become a very close friend of mine after he joined my blog and that was at the time of Balkhis ML Contest.

Well he have some unique prizes up on the roll one of them being the Asus EEE Laptop hence why the contest is called EEEnkay Blog’s Market Leverage Contest. Ofcourse it is sponsored by Market Leverage.

He is also giving out a $50 ML Gift card and 3 2GB USB Drive.

I am not a big fan of random contests, but Enkay gives me alot of backlinks from his posts also so this is the way I show him my gratitude.

Visit EEEnkay Blog’s Market Leverage Contest and Join if you like.

Recently, I have been spending time on Plurk. First of all, It is a time well spent because I can interact with other people and I get ideas for new posts. Also I get to have some fun time. When I started with Plurk, I didn’t know how to do alot of things such as making a URL, or referring to someone. Making the text italics, or bold. Well I asked a question on Plurk, and found that someone already have wrote a guide.

I think it won’t hurt to have something on my blog like that as well, so next time I won’t be searching for a guide, I will directly visit my own site, and my readers will see it here as well. First of all fellas, if you want to make connections with other webmasters and bloggers.

JOIN PLURK NOW and add me as a friend because Balkhis Plurk Page is the Home for Webmasters and Bloggers.

Once you have joined Plurk, then you would use these guides below.

Inserting a URL in your Plurk

Just type in the format like this http://www.balkhis.com (Balkhis) so basically url.com (anchor text), and this will get you a text link.

Referring to a specific username

Alot of times when you plurk, two people ask you two different questions, so you would need to specify the answer to each of them, so just add @username so @balkhis will directly link to that user which means that you are referring to that user.

Making the Text Bold

Put double asteriks around a word will make it bold. So simply just put **Balkhis** will make it bold.

Italicizing the Text

Wrap around the text in one asterik. For example *Balkhis* will make the text italicized.

Underlining the Text

Use double underscore before and after the word. So make it __Balkhis__ will make the word underlined.

To show video

Just enter the url and plurk, and it will show a thumbnail.

What is Plurk Karma?

Just a point based system that ranks all the users based on activity and how other people think of them which is determined by the love shown by friends.

How do you increase your Karma?

Increase Plurking, Respond to other plurk, Plain Simple JUST BE MORE ACTIVE. Also recommending friends will also get you good Karma.

Why do you want to have a higher Karma?

You want a higher Karma because thats the way you are ranked. Also with the higher Karma comes the cool emoticons, cool backgrounds and much more abilities.

Now get back to Plurk.. If you haven’t joined.. What are you waiting for. Join already.

Source for this article: Reviews How Tos

Everytime I think of writing a post about 5 wordpress plugins. Most of the time, I just write one post about some plugin and then another one about the other one, but this one I want to say that as of now the following wordpress plugins are in my top 5 list.

1) All in One SEO Plugin for Wordpress (Download Now)

2) Contact form for Wordpress (Download Now)

3) OIOPublisher (Download Now)

4) Comment Relish (Download Now)

5) Akismet (Download Now)

These are the top 5 wordpress plugins in my list right now and I think everyone should get these because they are just the best ones I have used. Most of them I have already wrote a review so you can check those and make your decision.