Don and I took an idea and turned it into a WordPress blog during one business day. Here is how we did it. The Idea There has been a significant rise in the number of requests to move blogs to WordPress. I was dealing with three clients in one week on this subject and figured
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Twitter Tools
Twitter tools number in the thousands, but picking out the ones that work for you takes some effort. Below are a few of the Twitter tools that I recommend. Twitter Searching twitoria– Unfollow people who have not posted a tweet in week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 6 months or a year. tweetbeep –
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My Comments Were Not Posting on WordPress Blogs due to Akismet Spam Protection
I began to notice that my blog comments were not posting on the blogs that I visited. I went through a series of excuses in my mind after each failure to post my finely crafted comment. I thought; What a lame website Did I click cancel instead of submit? Is CoComment “doing something” here? Is
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Google’s First Meetup in Boston – Cambridge really
If you are reading this to learn Google secrets, there aren’t any here. If you are interested in learning about the flavor of the March, 2009 Google Meetup in Cambridge and some of the people I ran across, read on. 567 Massachusetts Avenue – The Enormous Room Lovely space for a meetup. Long room with
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Drupal in IE6 browser shows blank white screen of death, WSOD
How the IE6 beast was tamed There is no immunity to the folly of Internet Explorer 6. You can even find a website devoted to the demise of IE6. JBS Partner’s first Drupal project fell victim to IE6. After the brand new website went live, we learned that the majority of the client’s visitors
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Twitter Tools to Share with your Followers
Twitter Tools: Below are a few of the Twitter related tools that I appreciate day-in and day-out on Twitter, whether I am mobile or on my desktop. Retweet This – This GreaseMonkey script makes retweeting a snap on the web. Adds a nice little Retweet button to your Twitter webpage. Note, it inserts “Retweeting”. I
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The Dell Latitude E6500 is a Champ
The Toshiba Satelite M35X-161 laptop served me well over the last four years. But the Celeron 1.3 GHz CPU has not been keeping up with me lately. I needed more horse-power. Enter the Dell Latitude E6500.
Search for and Evaluate Domain Names for Free
Domainers buy website domain names and sell domains for profit. Maybe you are not a domainer, but have some ideas about buying domain names for profit. Where do you start? If you want cheap domain names, and by that I mean you only want to pay $10 or less for a domain name (the registration
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WordPress strips / removes blank lines while I add empty lines
Line spacing in paragraphs plays in important usability role. Just like with happy couples, closeness shows that content is related. When paragraphs and headings are equidistant it is harder for the reader to know what is related to what. The WordPress editor will strip out br and p tags that it decides are redundant. WordPress
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An Interview with Jim Spencer By Casey Yandle
A friend of mine on Twitter @cyandle sent me these questions to answer and post on my blog. He is also posting the same interview on his blog, Creative Daylight so check his answers out too. 1. How long have you been working in website design and marketing and what attracted you to it? JBS
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