Archive for February, 2007

Online status for Yahoo, MSN, Skype

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Todays question is how best to add the little online / offline blocks for the various message services to your blog.
First you have to get the HTML code for your service from them. Then you will need to add it to your blog one of two ways. First if you use a widget ready theme [...]

Hyperlinks - How do you insert them?

Monday, February 26th, 2007

Inserting hyperlinks in your posts is quite easy to do. When you are in your post just highlight the area of text that you want to hyperlink. Click the little bar and a pop up window will open.
Add your link in the top box, click the check box to decide how you want the link [...]

Affiliate Marketing - Is a blog better than a website?

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Well I am probably prejudiced so I will start with that caveat. I prefer a blog to a website for affiliate marketing. There are a variety of reasons for this but first and foremost is that the search engines at this point love blogs.
If you have a consistently updated blog and take the time to submit [...]

What do I write about?

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

The absolute number one question asked in my surveys is what do I write about?
As a friend of mine says that is like asking how long is a ball of string?
The answer will depend on you, your knowledge and more importantly your passions. Here is one way that I do this. It works for others [...]

New updates from Word Press

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Just a quick post to remind readers that Word Press has issued updates for bot the 2.1 and 2.0 versions.
Version 2.1 will be replaced with 2.1.1. Version 2.07 will be replaced with 2.09. Yep they skipped 8. Guess they didn’t want to be like the change from 2.06 to 2.07 which was very short.
Version 2.1 [...]

Mailing lists - How to create

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

The question today was is there an easy way to add something to have people subscribe and be able to mail to them.
The problem with this is that yes there is a plug in that will do that but I personally would not use it. Nothing wrong with the plugin that I have read about [...]

Upgrading your blog to the lateset version

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

The most complete instructions for doing this are available at the Word Press site.
There are 5 basic steps to do an upgrade.
1. Back up your data. This will include the full data base, the .htaccess file and the various parts of your theme that you have modified. For me I download the data base via [...]

Fonts - How do I change them?

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

This is the next in a series of posts answering the questions that were asked in the survey below. If you have not added yours feel free to do so now. Your question may be answered here.
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In most themes your font size and styles are controlled by your css file. If you are [...]

Static content - how to add it

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

This is the next in a series of posts answering the questions that were asked in the survey below. If you have not added yours feel free to do so now. Your question may be answered here.
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Now if you know HTML it is relatively easy to add a static paragraph or two to the top [...]