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It’s seldom we actually see a pligg based site that seems to get it right, a relatively high percentage of pligg sites fail to grow their user-base and eventually fade away. Common mistakes are simply a lack of design effort, cash, commitment and marketing, bloggingzoom is one of the very few pligg based sites that has put in the effort and is starting to reap the rewards.

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Drigg the digg like module for drupal has been upgraded to v1.15, bug-fixes and additions galore drigg is really shaping up nicely as an alternative to pligg for Social Voting Webmasters.

Some of the features of drigg v1.15 are below.

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Picture the scene: It’s 2:00am you have been editing your website in a live environment and oops something went wrong now your site is messed up or offline and it’s now 2:05am, you usually have three choices at this point….

a) Try to find your bad code edit and fix it.
b) Restore a recent backup (If you have one) and lose some data.
c) Simply go to bed and dream about the most recent Lindsay Lohan pictures and fix it whenever you have time.

If your choice would be c) you can stop reading now and instead follow the article HERE, if you chose a) or b) please read on as we explain how to setup WAMP as a development server on your PC that will allow you to edit your site Code, CSS in relative safety and with no downtime.

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Every webmaster is always looking for high quality icon images to use on projects, so i though i would point you all in the direction of 500 of them all for Free

You can download the icons HERE

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Every now and then we see post’s cropping up titled “Someone Stole My Custom Pligg Template”. The user more often than not indicates that they have picked up a strange referrer in their web stats? upon visiting the referrer they are astonished to see an identical copy of their pligg template that they sweat and bled over creating.

Since a lot of pliggers use free or multi license templates this really isn’t reported that often as many users will have the same design with small subtle edits or color changes, If however you have had a custom template developed you could have spent upwards of $1000 for a quality XHTML design or alternatively you may have developed your own custom template and would like to protect your work.

If your reading this and are using a free or multi license template the article should still prove useful.

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