Archive for May, 2007
· May 31, 2007 at 7:55 am · Personal, Web Development
Tags: advertising, marketing, networks, plugs, promotion, SEO, tips, visitors
If you have several mildly successful Web sites, how can you gain even more attention and readers without doing much work? Well, one technique I have been doing since day one is self promotion. Think of it as loving yourself when nobody else wants to do so.
Learn to Love Yourself
Now we all put links back to our own Web sites and projects. There is nothing new or different about that advice. If you have several dynamic Web sites though, you can plug links in that will lead to real content and not just give you another link or two. Let me explain.
Thanks to a few WordPress plugins here and there, I have at the bottom of my three major Web sites links where you can find “other work” I have done. So if somebody was reading this for an example and thought, “Damn that Mitch is pretty cool, where can I find more of his work?” they have it right there for them.
Thanks to that and to me linking to my other projects - I bring more links into myself than anybody else on the Web. In a way, I guess you could think of me as my own little “network” of Web sites with each one promoting the next one in the circle.
No Super Tool To Help You Here
There is no special extension or super plugin that will help you make this happen. You just have to use a little imagination and the tools that are available to you. Remember you are giving your visitors just a little more content - not an advertisement.
· May 30, 2007 at 9:47 am · Software Help
Tags: application, Firefox, fixes, help, styles, stylish, tweaks
Want to fix a few simple design flaws with the Firefox?
Raise your hand if you have ever played with the Stylish extension for Firefox. Now raise your other hand if you knew where to find some of the cooler application style for Firefox.
For all of you who have both of your hands in the air - I want you to wave them like you just don’t care. For the folks with one hand still on the mouse, scroll down to see some of my favorite tweaks to Firefox you can do with the Stylish extension for Firefox.
Add Something to the about:blank Page - Why does the about:blank page have to be so - blank? There are several cool styles you can load up here to give your about:blank page a makeover. Here are a few more cool ones to pick from: About:Blank - Foxkeh and About:Blank - Washout.
Auto-hide Statusbar - Tired of your ugly statusbar getting in the way of your browsing? Load up this style and it will only show when you hover over the bottom section of your Firefox window. Move your mouse, and it disappears again just like magic!
Sliding Menubar - Menubar getting in your way too? Load up this style and you can set it to only be shown when you need it. Click on the Firefox icon in the old menu bar place to show it and hide it. No reason to show all of those options up there if you don’t use them all the time.
Bookmark Folder Icons - Add your own icons to specific folders inside of your bookmarks. This is helpful if you have a load of bookmarks and folders for the bookmarks and want an easier visual way to navigate inside them.
Colorize Firefox 2.0 Active Tab - Tired of your active tab looking like all the rest of them? Wish it was a little easier to see the tab you were on in comparison with all the other tabs that are in the background? This user style does the trick and allows you to set your own color combination.
Have a favorite that I might have missed? Leave a comment so I don’t miss it again and so we can share it with the rest of the class.
· May 29, 2007 at 7:34 am · Web Development
Tags: colors, CSS, design, fun, generators, pastel, tools, Web-2.0
Feel like your not keeping up with the times?
Generate the Web 2.0 layout of your dreams! Want a generator that promises to make you look like some of the top dogs out there in the Web 2.0 fight? Well I can’t promise you any venture capital - but I can give you a link to get a Web site to make it look like every rich guy with a check book it handing you money.
· May 28, 2007 at 11:00 am · Web Development, Web Hosting
Tags: guide, help, hosting, links, mp3, Resources, setup, WordPress
Last week on the Web Hosting Show we covered the world of setting up your own blog from head to toe. From picking out the right Web host to getting your blog configured - it is all there. There was little surprise that for the “cooking show example” I used WordPress, since it is a personal favorite of mine.
With that said - I figured I’d share with the masses the week long guide that we got published over there in hopes that it helps somebody else out there with getting WordPress installed and configured right.
If you want to listen to the entire show or save the mp3 to listen to later - you can download it and listen to it over at WebHostingShow.com.
· May 28, 2007 at 7:43 am · Personal
Tags: barton, family, monica, photos, SB-1, wedding
Here’s the first set of photos from the big Barton wedding that happened yesterday. Sean and Monica pulled it off perfectly - and I’m sure I’ll be pushing out even more photos via SB-1 Online in the next few weeks (as they come in). Three cheers for everybody’s favorite hyphenated hero SB-1 and the Adidas loving punk princess herself - Miss Mo.
+ Check Out More S & M Wedding Photos!
· May 27, 2007 at 5:00 am · Personal, Web Hosting
Tags: examples, help, hosting, quick, request, support, tips, WordPress
When asking any business for support, you should make sure you do so by including all the details that might be needed to answer that support request. Sometimes just posting a simple question is not enough and you need to make sure you explain yourself so you can get an answer quicker.
First thing you should do is state your question. Make it short, simple and to the point. You see after this simple step many people stop and just send that in to a support team. That alone is not enough.
You need to include more details about what it is you are asking about, why you think you need it and what it is exactly. The more oddball your question - the more information somebody might need. For example this question here:
Do you support WordPress on your Web hosting accounts? WordPress is a blogging engine that uses PHP, MySQL and more. Here is an example of the specs list needed for hosting it.
Is easier to answer than:
Hi there I want to install a script for something but I need to know if you support my thingies I need for it thanks.
Support professionals in any arena are not mind readers. You have to try to do your best job at layout out the question in a way anybody could understand if you want the quickest results.
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