I’m talking about Zemanta!  Its the neatest thing since blogging began.  Once installed, it will show you a grid of 9 or more images that match the content you are writing about, so that you can drag and drop them into your post.  It includes all the information that you need to protect the author’s [...]

I did some research a couple months ago into newsletter services for our DSWP monthly newsletter.  There are a number of plugins, and most combine the newsletter recipient info with the WordPress user registration tables.  In my case, I needed to also combine the sign-up form from the Members Only site.  And all that information [...]

Doodle by Lee. The code for this doodle and other doodles you can use on your blog can be found at Doodles.

Dear Becca,
(I love your avatar – too cute!)
Your questions answered:
1. By grey boxes around everything – I assume you mean the images?   To remove these, go to Appearance>>Edit, and find the Style.css- should be listed at the bottom of the right-hand side.
- scan through that file until you find:
a img {border: 3px solid grey; [...]

To some people words like “feedreader” and “rss” make their eyes glaze over and focus attention to that speck on your tooth.  So why not loose the geekeze, and make it easy for readers to subscribe?  Let them, “get an email every time you post” instead of “subscribe in a feedreader”.
Here are the subscription options [...]