One of the risks of blogging is that a lot of your best writing may get lost under a pile of reverse chronologically organized posts. Let's keep the best writing front and center, shall we? Built-In Organization 1. Use PAGES like they were intended. From the WordPress codex: Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless -- information that is always applicable. You can use Pages to organize and manage any amount of content. Other examples of common pages include Copyright, Legal … [Read more...]
Caution: Your Hungry Subscribers Might Not Be Getting Fed…
March 11, 2009
One of the most popular services out there for bloggers is Feedburner for a multitude of reasons, the biggest is the ability to track how many subscribers they have and the ability to offer their feed as an email subscription. Chances are, if a person has subscribed to your feed, they WANT to hear (or see, rather) what you have to say. They were interested in your content enough, to take the time to subscribe to your feed for updates on demand. But some of your subscribers might not be receiving your content. Unless you're fortunate enough to have a subscriber base who will email you and … [Read more...]
How to add pictures to your sidebar
March 10, 2009
Updated - March, 2012 Caution! This is one of the only areas in which you CAN mess up your website, and thats because we use TEXT widgets. Text widgets are those sidebar blocks that let you add anything to your website. That is dangerous! So please, please, please be careful. The upside of using text widgets is that you have great flexibility. You can place code, ads, images, or text into your sidebars. However approximately 40% of the troubleshooting jobs that I complete, are caused by incomplete code in a text widget. To prevent user errors, I strongly recommend … [Read more...]
Introducing: A New (Again) Hosting Service!
March 5, 2009
We've actually sold hosting for a while to our clients in our packages. You've come to us to get a website - and that's what we provide, from buying your name, moving your site, and makin' it pretty! Now, you can host with us separately from any of our packages! We are using the HostGator servers, and here are some of the awards they've won: Our Darling Desperate Package includes: 400 mb of storage 6 Gigs monthly bandwidth unlimited subdomains unlimited ftp accounts cpanel access with x3 theme ability 5 databases and phpmyadmin email, and our darling DSW service! … [Read more...]
More options for styling your posts
March 3, 2009
This is one of the best plugins I've run into in a long time: Tinymce Advanced. Now, I've no idea what Tinymce is either -except that techy people say "Tinymce" when they are referring to the text editor that I'm writing this post in right now. (I always pronounce it TinyMice - I've no idea if this proves my brilliance or ignorance...) Have you noticed that button at the top of your post editor with all the colors - the one that says "show/hide the kitchen sink"? The kids (I still can't believe he's only 25...) who run WordPress just don't understand us women. It would take a LOT more … [Read more...]
