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Archive for January, 2010

The 2010 Bloggies

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

You have until tomorrow to cast your votes in the 2010 Bloggies competition.  Even if you don’t vote, you’ll want to check it out.  You’ll get ideas for your own blog and find some terrific sites. Many of the nominated blogs relate to food or cooking.  While there is a special category for food blogs, [...]

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Other Ways to Help

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Have you been watching the news from Haiti?  It’s heart breaking. If you have a WordPress blog  you can add links to aid organizations (via the text widget) to the sidebar of your blog.  I’ve added one to the right side of this page. To find the code to add, find your favorite charity site.  [...]

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Resizing Images With the WordPress Photo Editor

Friday, January 15th, 2010

I finally had the opportunity to take the new WordPress photo editor for a spin.  For those of you that haven’t heard, the built-in photo editor was one of the new features in WordPress 2.9. I was most interested in its resizing capability.  I see a lot of people uploading huge photos that make their [...]

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Personalized Twitter Pages

Monday, January 11th, 2010

If you have a Twitter page, there’s no reason why it can’t be personalized to match your website.  Yes, there are design constraints but it’s still possible to make a Twitter page that stands out from the crowd. Here’s an example.  LitQuotes is a quotations website.  Their website looks like this: The new LitQuotes Twitter [...]

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WordPress 2.9.1

Friday, January 8th, 2010

WordPress 2.9.1 has been released.  It fixes the RSS widget issue that I was concerned about.  So for any of my customers that have been holding off updating until that issue was resolved . . .  update away.

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