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Scriptygoddess Proportional Calculator Helps Resize Images

On June 30, 2010 By

Just thought I’d pass along a handy little web page for those times when you want to resize an image and maintain the proportions, but don’t have time for the math.

From time to time, I’m trying to fit an image on a web page and know that I have only X [...]

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Recommended WordPress Plugins

On June 26, 2010 By

Several times I’ve had folks ask what plugins I recommend. Well, there is no single list that works for everybody. There are a couple of plugins I believe everyone should use and then there are the ones that I use a lot with projects and clients.

Let me also make a pitch for making donation [...]

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Safe WordPress Upgrades and Technical Troubleshooting Techniques

On June 25, 2010 By

I spent a couple of hours the other night helping a friend de-bug a WordPress 3.0 failure on a website. She had recently upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and discovered the tag function on one of her sites no longer worked. My area of technical knowledge is different from hers, so she sent out an SOS.

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Choosing a Web Hosting Service

On April 27, 2010 By

I think the number one question I’m asked is “Which web hosting service should I use?”

And then I get the “Well, this guy told me I should use —” or “I’ve tried 3, 4, 5 web services and they all were awful.” This is usually followed by detailed description of how the person was [...]

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4 Free Guides to Online Marketing Planning

On November 2, 2009 By

Acutually, this for planning online and traditional small business marketing. You really need to integrate your small business marketing efforts for maximum effect.

What will it take to have “job security” in the future?

Here’s a terrific Op-Ed by Thomas L. Friedman about what has changed in the New Economy and the [...]

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Making Money Online for Everyone

On September 23, 2009 By

Say what you will about the Newsweek slipping in its standards for political and general news reporting (and I certainly do at times), it still produces fine writing on business and social trends. Here’s a wonderfully insightful article the buyout of Mint.com, a small 2007 start-up, by Intuit, makers [...]

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How To Change Your WordPress Background Image

On August 5, 2009 By

hi, thanks so much for the tutorial above. I have a further question on the same lines. I figured out how to change the color, but i want to change the background color to an imge that is on my desktop, a jpg file saved on my desktop. I havent been able to figure out [...]

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How to get rid of the blog title and description in the WordPress header

On July 1, 2009 By

Thanks for you very helpful tips and informative answers to questions. I am in the very early stages of building my WordPress blog and with your help I was successful in replacing the default header with my own. The problem I now face is that my new header contains my blog title, so I want [...]

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WordPress 2.8 upgrade problems reported

On June 16, 2009 By

I’m in the process of testing some problems with the upgrade to WordPress 2.8. I’m not the only person reporting them, but I think I’m one of the few who can test on 3 different hosting services with 3 different server configurations.

Quick Summary of WordPress 2.8 Issue

It appears that some people are reporting [...]

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Protected: The No BS Guide to Online Marketing

On June 9, 2009 By

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