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Archive for April, 2009

Social Media Icons

Monday, April 27th, 2009

You’ve done it!  You’ve got yourself a Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn account.  You want to advertise it on your website.  Where in the world do people get those cute logos you ask?   My Social Buttons is the answer.  They have numerous icons for the social media sites I’ve mentioned as well as a slew of [...]

WordPress Tags

Monday, April 20th, 2009

When you’re writing a post in WordPress you may have noticed an area on the right labeled “Tags”. I’ve circled it in green in the below photo. WordPress calls tags “micro-categories for your blog.”  In this area you can write keywords that apply to your post.  If your template is tag enabled then your tags [...]

Websites 101 – Picking Your Domain Name

Friday, April 17th, 2009

If you’re thinking about putting up a website one of the first decisions you’ll have to make is what domain name to pick.  Ideally you’d want a domain name that has all of the following qualities: Easy to Remember Make sure that people can remember your domain name.  You want them to be able to [...]

An Odd Duck

Monday, April 13th, 2009

A List Apart has just published their 2008 survey of people who make websites.  About thirty thousand people responded to this survey. It appears that most website developers are men. (I knew this before.)  More than 50% of respondents were under 29. (I had no idea.  When did this happen?)   About 20% of those who [...]

Another Twitter Resource

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Check out Twitter for Beginners by Charlene Kingston.  This eBook covers what Twitter is, how to select a goal for for your Twitter account, Twitter culture and much more.  Another really amazing thing about this valuable resource is that it’s absolutely free! Share this:

Five Things You May Not Know About WordPress

Monday, April 6th, 2009

I love using WordPress software.  Sometimes I get so caught up in the day-to-day aspects of it that I forget there’s a backstory.  Here are just a few things you might like to know about WordPress. Before there was WordPress there was B2/Cafelog. B2/Cafelog was blogging software created in 2001.  As there are branches in [...]

Twitter

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Between Demi Moore and Google, Twitter is all over the news today.  What is Twitter you ask?  Watch this short video for an explanation. Share this: