Posts Tagged With: help
· July 21, 2008 at 5:11 am · Web Development, Writing Advice
Tags: brands, FeedBurner, help, multiple, options, readers, subscribe
When getting started building a brand Online, a lot of people ask what should they do first? Well after you get your content flowing, you need a way for people to follow that content. That is where RSS and all the various feed readers out there come into play.
Everybody has their own way of doing things though, so you need to make sure you meet everybody’s needs. Thanks to services like FeedBurner, this is pretty easy. From inside their web site you can generate tons of those subscription links, as well as your standard big orange button and even e-mail newsletter management. It is by far the best option out there.
As a rule of thumb, you want to give people the ability to follow you via:
- Your Domain (visiting your web site)
- Via RSS (using the feed reader of their choosing)
- and a newsletter (which you can easily setup with an RSS feed with FeedBurner)
Also it never hurts to let people know your RSS feed over and over again. Such as how I am right now begging you informing you to subscribe to this feed if you want more informative posts just like the one you just read:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/mitchelaneous
· July 18, 2008 at 6:01 am · Desktop, Personal
Tags: help, my documents, organize, personalize, Vista, Windows, xp
I’ve been out searching for a program that will allow me to quickly color code the folders on my Vista machine. The only problem is, I can find a lot of good programs that work with Windows XP but this must be a harder task to accomplish on Vista.
Here are a few of the Windows XP programs I have tried (all good solutions by the way) that just haven’t gotten the job done thus far.
So I am asking you, do you know of a good Vista folder customizer out there? I need something that would allow me to quickly change the colors to kind of help organize things a ‘bit in my PC. Better yet, how do you organize your “My Document” folders?
· June 20, 2008 at 5:33 am · Web Development
Tags: help, popularity, results, search, stats, surge, visitors
Looks like my post-Firefox 3 bump in stats is starting to come to an end for Firefox Facts. While the madness was going on (one post got up to 80+ comments!) I came up with a few tactics to try to milk the proverbial press cow as long as I could.
Watch where people are coming in. Via Google Analytics I was able to check out in nearly real time where people were coming in via search, blogs and other places and edit my content to meet the needs of the people.
Keep an eye on search phrases and the results they get. For example, if a lot of people were coming in for the phrase “firefox 3 themes” and the story they were getting was about the themes but didn’t give them much selection, I made sure I added a link to a post like this one that gave some new Firefox 3 ready themes for them to try.
Just some handy advice you might keep in mind for yourself next time you see your own web site going through a popularity surge.
· June 16, 2008 at 5:28 am · Web Hosting
Tags: help, mp3, podcast, talk radio, Web Hosting, web-developers
Well, I had a melted power supply, a wisdom tooth pulled and a weekend filled with no power in the past two weeks but I am happy to say all that is behind me now and the Web Hosting Show podcast is back in production and episode 154 is ready for download.
Here are just a few topics from this week’s episode of the Web Hosting Show.
- What is Your IP and Why Do You Need It?
- Don’t Backup My Documents on Your Hosting Account!
- Checking Web Popularity with URLmetrix?
- Gawkwire, a new Internet and Hosting News Site Launches!
Podcast Exclusive - Part 2 of Our “How to Purchase a Web Hosting Business” Series with Web Strategist Errett Cord. Download the podcast to check it out!
+ Go Listen to the Web Hoting Show, Podcast 154!
· June 13, 2008 at 5:19 am · Personal, Web Hosting
Tags: articles, help, moving, ping zine, Web Hosting, web-hosts
The digital version of the newest Ping! Zine magazine is out (paper version coming to a mail box near you soon!) and I have one new article this time around.
In this issue I tackled moving from web host to web host. What you need to do before, during and after the transition when changing web hosting companies.
+ Download the PDF Version of Ping! Zine Vol 6. Issue #2
· April 28, 2008 at 5:31 am · Desktop, Writing Advice
Tags: advice, create, eBook, help, PDF, Projects, publish, video tutorial
First off, thank you for the positive feedback on the latest eBook release of mine I told you about a few days ago. Always appreciate the feedback and thoughts on the project. One question I have gotten a lot thus far is, what did I use to create it? Well, as many of you know I pride myself on being a low budget guy… so why pay money when I can get this done for free? I created the entire eBook using Open Office and this video I found on YouTube for pointers.
Who says this Internet thing isn’t a great learning device? This made it easy to pick up pointers on how to link inside of the document, and then how to export to PDF and secure the document up some so that it could not be edited. I would suggest anybody bookmark this video and play it again if you ever want to get into the basics of digital publishing yourself.
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