WordPress 2.7 has some VERY cool tools for working with photos. If you know where to look, that is. Let’s start by adding a photo.   Click on the box to the right of “Upload/Insert”. Once the photo is uploaded click on it.  Two icons or controls will appear.  The one on the left looks like [...]

Another blog awards competition is taking place.  Visit the 2009 bloggies site to vote for your favorites, check out blog designs or to maybe find a blog to read. Feel free to leave a comment here to let me know what you think of their horizontal layout.  I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like [...]

This week I asked a customer if she wouldn’t mind being the subject of a little WordPress 2.7 experiment.  She graciously, perhaps also a little cautiously, agreed. I’d just updated her blog to 2.7 and I wanted to see if she found adding plugins just as easy as I did.  I instructed her to click [...]

Over the last few months I’ve talked to a few organizations that want their websites updated. Their wish list of features contained items like blogs, paid advertising, a shopping cart and photo galleries. I asked some questions. What are you going to sell? What are you going to advertise? How do these features support your [...]

Have you noticed the amount of blog contests out there?  They’re fun to enter and some of them give away great prizes. Most of the contests I’ve seen select a random winner from the entries.  How do they do that? Allow me to introduce you to a handy website called Random.org. They’ll pick the random [...]

I had an interesting email from one of my clients last week.  He used the word “bombshell” in the subject line.  His website host was going out of business because of the bad economy.  He had a week to find a new host and move his site.  It was a bombshell indeed! The client has [...]

The polls are open until January 13th at the 2008 Weblog Awards.  So head on over and cast your vote.  If you’re like me you’ll also get all kinds of ideas on blogging, blog designs and discover some new blogs to add to your favorites.

Starting with version 2.6 WordPress has a “Turbo” option.  What in the world is that?  It’s something that folks with slower Internet connections are going to love! The Turbo function in WordPress uses a technology called Gears.  Gears is software developed by Google that allows website browsers to run website applications offline.  In other words, [...]