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Archive for December, 2009

Happy Holidays!

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

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PHPlist and BlueHost

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

I recently moved a customer’s PHPlist installation to BlueHost. As you may know, BlueHost (along with Hosting.com) is one of my preferred hosting providers. The move itself went well.  I installed PHPlist via the Simple Scripts installation process.  I exported the list from the old system and imported it into the new system.  I copied [...]

Problem with 2.9 and RSS Widget

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

I was happily working away on a new WordPress 2.9 install when I ran into a problem.  The RSS widget threw an error that broke the whole site.  The error message starts out: RSS Error: The data could not be converted to UTF-8 The site I was working on is highly depenant on the RSS [...]

WordPress 2.9

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

WordPress 2.90 was released yesterday.  I’m very excited about the built-in image editor.  I’ll let you know as soon as I’ve taken it for a spin.  There are other great features too!  Check out this list of new features and fixes in 2.9 or watch the following video. Share this:

Domain Name Scam

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Last week I learned about a new Internet scam.  This one involves domain name registration.  It all started when I received an email from an Asian domain name registration service.   I’ve  altered the domain name in question, but basically it went like this: Dear CEO, We are the department of Asian Domain registration service [...]

Blogging Misconceptions

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Daily Blog Tips just posted a list of  Top 5 Blogging Misconceptions.  While blogging is fun and can be a great way to add to your income, there is another side to the story.  Like anything else, there are pluses and minuses with blogging.  It’s not a free ride.  You need to go into it [...]

WordPress 2.9

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

WordPress 2.9 is in development.  There’s an impressive list of new features.  What am I most excited about?  I can’t wait to see the new image editor! If we’ve ever had a coaching session, I’m sure you’ve heard my speech on the evils of large photos.  Current versions of WordPress have tools that make photos [...]