David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals and the creator of Ruby on Rails delivers a powerful lecture at Standford University’s Entrepreneurship Program.

He says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He argues that constraints–fiscal, temporal, or otherwise–drive innovation and effective problem-solving. The most important thing, Hansson believes, is to make a dent in the universe with your company

Reason8.com has launched a new website design App. It allows users to create their own template designs to use on their website. This web app is easy to use and pretty flexible.

Wordpress comes with many free themes already but new users might find it difficult to customize themes to their own needs. Reason8.com’s web app allows theme personalization with a drag and drop style interface which is very easy to use.

Your blog’s theme is a simple way of managing your sites layout, stylesheets, and typeface. Your theme will determine how you want your readers to view your blog posts and your website as a whole.

Thanks to the open source nature of wordpress there are thousands of free blog themes that are ready to go right out of the box. Each theme is also easy to modify to better fit your needs.

“FTP” meaning File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the Internet

In other words it’s a way to take files on your computer, and upload them to your host.

How to install wordpress to your website using the 5 minute wordpress install process. What tools you will need and the step by step walkthrough of the installation.

After this walkthrough your new website will be up and running and visible to the world.

What is a web host? Why you need a web host? How do you set up web hosting? What is a Nameserver? How do you link your domain name to your web host? How do you re-assign your nameservers to your web host?

All that and more in Step 3 of this ‘How to become a blogger series’.

Registering your own domain name is cheap and easy. It’s also an important step to becoming a blogger. It will look more professional and give users an easy way to remember how to find your website.

So you think you want to become a blogger but you don’t know where to start.

This first video tells you what a blog is and what is the best blogging platform to use. It will also explain why we have chosen to use “wordpress” as our blogging platform.

You’ve been blogging now for a few years and despite the ego rush of seeing your hits soar, you’re left wondering whats the point or rather how do you finally make some cash off all that hard work.

In the beginning it can be tough when you’re not earning from your blog, but there are lots of options when it comes to monetization.

Looking back at your old blog posts there are sure to be some that were golden from the start, some that were just plain bad, and some that are still diamonds in the rough.

Going through older blog posts I often find much room for improvement. The more you learn, the more you realize you didn’t know.