It’s truly amazing to me the variety and quality of WordPress themes found at Theme Forest.

Looking for a restaurant theme for your new outdoor cafe? They got several to choose from. How about a real estate theme for that fledging realtor business of yours? Check. Maybe a CMS for your portfolio or an eCommerce theme for that cool new web-based shop of yours? Check and check again.

And these aren’t boring, stale HTML looking themes either. These are great looking, fully featured and multi-faceted WordPress themes. Many of them come with admin options that rival the likes of Thesis, Headway or Studio Press.

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Wondering what the different WordPress roles are or mean? Below is a copy of the Q&A found on LockerGnome.

In a blog what are the roles of the contributor, author and editor?

I assume you’re talking about a WordPress blog…if so, here’s what I found.

Administrators – have access to all the administration features.
Editors – can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
Authors – can publish and manage their own posts.
Contributors – can write and manage their posts but not publish posts or upload media files.
Subscribers – can read comments/comment/receive newsletters, etc.

*found by clicking HELP in the users section of WordPress administrator panel

via LockerGnome

Want more? For a good explanation of the differences between Author vs Contributor, see this WordPress Site Builder page.

For today’s quick and dirty blog tip we bring you a most important element which many blog owners (for some unknown reason) forget to include in their sites.

The search box!

If your particular WordPress theme doesn’t have one built into the navigation or sidebar, add it at once. This is a vital piece of web design that musn’t be overlooked.

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If you blog while out and about one of the best investments you can make is to get a netbook.

What is a netbook?

It’s a smaller laptop usually with a 7 to 10 inch screen and all the major PC makers have one or two models available. Dell has one called the Dell Mini 10 which I own, (use alot) and love. It costs me $225 last year in 2010 via Walmart.com and you can still snag a high quality netbook for about the same price.

They’re fully featured with plenty of RAM, good hard drives, web cams, decent sized processors and of course built-in WIFI.

I highly recommend one to all bloggers. They’re great for cafe blogging, park blogging, and other mobile blogging or IM activities. I tend to take mine while I travel, sure the iPad is lighter and smaller but with no keyboard – it’s a no go for me.

I plan to do a round up of a few good high quality inexpensive netbook models in the next few days, so stay tuned.

Cheers,
Missy

p.s. Do you have a netbook? If so, which model and do you agree or disagree with my sentiment above.