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Archive for January, 2008

Super Secret Second Toolbar – WordPress

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Did you know that there’s a secret editing toolbar in newer versions of WordPress? There is! With the second row of buttons you can: change font colors add special characters undo and redo And that’s just part of the goodies that await you with the super secret second toolbar. So how do you actually see [...]

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Moving to a New Website Host

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Sometimes you’ve just got to move on. Maybe your current website host feels that server outages are to be expected. (They’re not!) Maybe your host has bad technical support or is too expensive. Maybe you need some new services. Whatever the reason, you’ve decided it’s time to move on. Moving to a new host takes [...]

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Welcome to My World

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Sometimes when I’m discussing things with a client I’ll talk about viewing the source of a web page. I’m not talking about the code view on WordPress here. I’m talking about surfing to any page on the Internet and viewing its code. Sounds scary doesn’t it? It’s something anyone can do but it’s generally only [...]

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Ten Websites I Can't Live Without

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Google – What did people do before Google? I must go there ten times a day at least! I love how zippy Google is in returning the search results. I use it to research HTML code. I use it as a spell checker. I look up obscure things I’ve read about. I use it to [...]

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Working with WordPress – Single Spacing Text

Monday, January 14th, 2008

One of my customers had a big problem with adding a poem to her blog. She wanted to single space the text but couldn’t figure out how to make that happen. Here’s the secret. If you want to single space the text don’t press the “enter” button like you would normally. Type some text and [...]

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eCommerce and the Olympics

Friday, January 11th, 2008

The Games have always brought people together in peace to respect universal moral principles. The above quote is from the website of the International Olympic Committee. It’s the sort of thing that I think of when I think about the Olympics. It’s about bringing people together. It’s about showing the best in people. It’s about [...]

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Spam Filters – A Double-Edged Sword

Monday, January 7th, 2008

I hate spam. Before I started using my spam filter, Postini, I was getting about 150 spam emails a day. Now I only get from 1 to 2 spam emails a day. It’s a huge improvement. As much as I love Postini it’s not a perfect system. Last week a customer sent me an important [...]

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Working with WordPress – Code View

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Ususally I tell people to NOT look at the code view in WordPress. It can be scary. “What is that stuff? What does it mean? Make it go away!” These are all typical responses. But sometimes a blogger has to bite the bullet. Sometimes you’ve got to look at the code. Here’s one instance where [...]

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