Making Money Online for Everyone

September 23, 2009

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 of Quicken (and financial bully-boys). It’s [...]

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How To Change Your Wordpress Background Image

August 5, 2009

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

July 1, 2009

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

June 16, 2009

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 problems with [...]

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Protected: The No BS Guide to Online Marketing

June 9, 2009

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Wordpress Theme Sources You Can Trust

April 25, 2009

As soon as I teach a small business owner about Wordpress, I get two questions. Wordpress is really free? Once I explain about the altruistic and collaborative model of doing business, I get the next question…
Where can I get a good Wordpress theme?
And naturally, everyone asks me about free Wordpress themes. There are a number [...]

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Review of Dreamhost Hosting for Wordpress Sites

April 20, 2009

I have a client who has had some amazingly horrible web site hosting experiences. To say these folks are a little gun shy now, is an understatement. They have been through the wars from web “developers” who provided hosting and then held their site for ransom when they tried to move because the site was [...]

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How Adding Live Plants to Your Environment Can Help You Breathe!

March 30, 2009

I’m not adding my favorite TED presentations in any order (and I have a lot more to add as I get time. If you’re in a hurry by all means head over to TED and start watching them for yourself). But this simple 4 minute presentation by Kamal Meattle presented at the 2009 conference on [...]

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How to Exclude Specific Pages From Your Page Navigation

March 27, 2009

Your page navigation menu uses the Wordpress wp_list_pages tag to display all of your Pages. There are, however, some Pages that are necessary, but you would prefer not to include in your navigation menu such as “Privacy Policy” or “Thank You for Shopping With Us” or “Legal Disclaimers.” How do you tell Wordpress to exclude [...]

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Creating a Single Page and Privacy Policy Site in Wordpress

March 20, 2009

I recently got a nice email from someone who is apparently using Wordpress to create his first site. And he’s keeping it simple (which is not a bad plan if you are just starting and not very comfortable with the technology).
He writes:
Hi Carolyn…
Very nice work on your guide…I am a total technophobe and this made [...]

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