In part one, I gave a brief introduction to what this series is going to be about. I also explained what a niche site is as well as gave a link to one of my successful mini-sites. Check it out and refer back to it as I go on in this post – http://MyBombayCat.com.

In this three-part post series, I’m going to be giving you guys an overview of what I did to create this website from the very beginning stages. Now, I’m sure there are things that I did that are wrong or could be done in a better way, but I really don’t care at this point. I’m just writing this today to give inspiration to some of you out there that want to create your own small mini-site.

Alrighty then. It’s Sunday again, so time for a good ol’ dose of a weekly review, no? First, let me just mention the fact that I know I haven’t posted alot in the past week or so, and I’m sorry for that. I’ve just been busy with things outside of Wordpress and the internet. (Turns out, there’s a whole other world besides those two things outside my front door, what the hell!?)

If you’ve ever seen a post with no visible comment form available to the readers that also has comments on it, you may have wondered how they got there. Most likely, these are spam comments from bots. Some bots just directly access the wp-comments-post.php file with their spam-filled information, thus totally bypassing the post that they’re apparently “commenting” on.

This theme is going to be very similar to the structure of Rock Solid. I saw that many people were saying things like “I never use dark themes” when I first released Rock Solid. Once I got over the fact that some of my readers are obvious racists, I got to thinking. Why not create a theme similar to Rock Solid that appeals more to the traditional “light theme”-lovers?

Embedding Youtube videos is a very popular practice by many bloggers. What better way to share a video than by embedding it directly onto your post? The problem with doing this, however, is that Youtube does not provide an XHTML valid embed code. This leaves some bloggers (especially those that are tightwads about their site being valid) frustrated.