Comment forms are an essential part of our blogs, social networks and websites. Comment forms are our websites’ communication channel. Through these forms we get feedback on our content; therefore, it’s necessary to design them in such a way that they are easy to understand by our user base.

A good comment form should align with our website’s main design, but at the same time it should be interesting enough to encourage easy commenting. It must be usable and accessible if we want to capture all of our visitors’ feedback.

Great article about comment form styling, all do's and don'ts, many show cases and examples. +++

Over in the ProBlogger.com forum there’s been a lot of talk about different tools, applications, platforms and plugins that helps to improve blogs. I’m loving the different opinions and experiences and thought it’d be a good question to open up to the wider community - what are your favourite 10 blogging tools?

Sure Wordpress, Google Reader, Disqus and of course POSTEROUS!

Facebook is one of those Web phenomena that impress everyone with numbers. To cite some: about 250 million users are on Facebook, and together they spend more than 5 billion minutes on Facebook… every day. These numbers suggest that we should start thinking about how to use Facebook for blogging or vice versa.

We did some research to find out how the integration of Facebook with WordPress and vice versa works, or — in other words — how you can present your WordPress blog on Facebook or use the functionality of Facebook on your WordPress-powered blog. Both of these can be achieved with a set of WordPress plug-ins, a couple of which we’ll present here in detail.

Connect your Blog to your facebook and show your blogs on your wall.
This article show how, in detail you get explained how to use facebook connect and the facebook API

You may have already heard that sites running out-of-date versions of WordPress have been under attack (Lorelle, Weblog Tools Collection, WordPress Dev Blog). Of course, sites running the latest version of the software seem to be safe, which once again takes us back to what I said over a year ago: Upgrade or else! I haven’t seen complete details yet about how this new worm works, but reports say that part of the hack is to create a new Administrator level account, and then try to hide the existence of that account (via javascript) when you view your list of users.

I would be thankful if Wordpress would tell which versions are exactly not secure. I'm sure there are so much older installs (maybe 2.3?) from people without enough knowledge to update their blog site. So maybe there is no need to update some older branch. Not everyone is a geek like us :)

(I'm so happy about the automatic upgrade function otherwise upgrading multiple wordpress sites would take days every year)