Connect with other social marketer and content creators. Meet innovative and creative Internet personalities. Learn how to become a well-rounded blogger. Where is all of this happening? IZEAFest, a three-day event being held by IZEA, owner of Pay Per Post and Social Spark. IZEAFest! IZEAFest is a conference for blogger and new…

We are happy to announce the WordPress 2.6 compatible update for the UBD Block Ad Plugin. Upgrading is super easy! Just download the new UBD Block Ad Plugin (link below) and upload it to your WordPress plugins folder. If you are upgrading your UBD Moneymaker Theme and want to update the built-in…

Hopefully, eye tracking works and you are reading this sentence. Are you a talented web designer/developer? If so, we may be very interested in working with you! Why are we telling you this? This past day, we have received an enormous amount of traffic from Smashing Magazine. We thought it would be…

UBD worked with Yahoo! to add functionality and relaunch their popular Yahoo! Mail Blog. You may be asking yourself, why is UBD reporting that the Yahoo! Mail Blog relaunched? Well, we are truly honored that we recently had the opportunity to work with Yahoo! to redesign and relaunch the official Yahoo! Mail…

Everyone’s favorite blogging and website platform, WordPress, has been updated to version 2.6. This new version packs many cool new features and it is even a month ahead of its scheduled release! Congratulations to the Automattic team for their awesome turn around time between 2.5.1 and 2.6. Rather than tell you about…

We are proud to announce a new addition to our UBD Wordpress Theme family - the Personal Blog Theme. The Personal Blog Theme is designed for bloggers who want a simple, easily customizable theme, with some of the extra features you only see in premium themes. This theme is jam-packed with some…

Are you interested in receiving a Free UBD WordPress Theme? Normally, the UBD pre-made WordPress Themes retail for $79 each, but we have a special offer for you. You can get a free UBD WordPress Theme by signing up for a blog hosting account with one of our selected Blog Hosting Partners.…

We are happy to announce that the UBD Moneymaker Theme is now available to download - for free! The theme was designed by Phillip van Coller in conjunction with UBD. The UBD Moneymaker Wordpress Theme is not just any ordinary theme - it has special functionality that you tend to only see…

I am happy to announce that UBD’s Lead Designer and Chief Operating Officer, Matt Blancarte, has officially rolled out a new design for his personal blog, Matt Blancarte dot Com. Matt has been blogging since July of 2007, and he has been working with UBD since its August 2007 inception. Matt’s blog…

Block advertising (125×125 ads) has become one of the most popular ways to monetize blogs. Top blogs such as Tech Crunch, John Chow and ReadWriteWeb all use block advertising as a method to generate revenue from their blogs. As great as block advertising is for monetizing blogs, if you use block advertising,…