Another chic WordPress release. One of the reasons I trust WordPress to store my writing (which is rare and precious these days) is the huge community that supports it. Fortunately, the days of a lone geek in his mama's basement are long past for WordPress. In this release there were over 4001 contributors! So, to the new goodies in this version: image editor in the media module (as in you can crop, flip, and rotate the images) easier media enclosures (youtube plugins are a thing of the past2) a trash bin for your deleted posts (you can restore them from the 'trash' tab in the … [Read more...]
My research into Commercial Email Marketing Providers
November 9, 2009
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 is only for the sign-up form!! Then we have to put this data into an emailing program. The sites that I have listed below are the most popular mass-emailing services. Also, they are the 'easiest to use' although I have not tested many of them. As a sidenote, … [Read more...]
Get your blog numbers in the dashboard
October 29, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Most of us use, or once used, Google Analytics for thorough analysis of our blog numbers. By numbers, I'm referring to the numbers of site visits, or number of pages that were visited in a day or week; numbers can also refer to the number of comments you receive or number of clicks until someone leaves your website. Although Google Analytics has nearly everything you'd want for tracking your blog's numbers, you do have to get those numbers at their site. To see your numbers through your own dashboard, similar to wordpress.com blogs, you can download a plugin … [Read more...]
Web-safe Fonts
October 10, 2009
These are the fonts commonly used in MOST browsers* * this entire table is from the fine folks at Ampsoft. See their site for more information on how to display the fonts in various browsers, and tips for writing the css. … [Read more...]
How to Upload a PDF in WordPress
September 23, 2009
We want to upload a pdf and create a link so others can download it in this tutorial. Go to Media >> Add New Select the pdf and upload. Click on Media List Click on the pdf's "View" It will take you to the post attachment screen (in your blog's front end) There is a link there with the name of your pdf. Right click or (ctrl on a mac) and Copy the URL of the pdf to the clipboard Then you can add that URL as a link to any text you like - in a post, page, or widget. … [Read more...]
How to Create a Static Landing Page
September 21, 2009
I guest-posted at Tech Talk for Moms yesterday - a video on how to create a static landing page. Go check it out! (this video will be added to the tutorials section soon) … [Read more...]
W3Schools Website
September 4, 2009
This is where I learned most of my css & html coding skills. It isn't a lot of fluff, very little explanation of the code, but a whole lot of charts and examples - which is how I learn best. Visit w3schools here. Here is the list of their references: HTML & CSS REFERENCES HTML Tag Reference HTML Event Reference HTML Color Reference XHTML Tag Reference CSS Reference XML Languages REFERENCES XML DOM Reference XSL Reference XSLT Reference XSL-FO Reference XPath Reference XQuery Reference XLink Reference Schema Reference XForms Reference RDF Reference RSS Reference WAP … [Read more...]
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