Oops – I’m clearing out the daily Twitter updates on my blog and I realize I deleted a post I wanted to keep. I imagine there is a plug-in you can install on WordPress that helps you recover a lost post or page, but it was too late. I do have an XML sitemap, which [...]
Read moreA document crossed my path the other day. It was a scathing letter sent to the management of a local firm. Crabby customers are part of life, and many times the anger is justified, but in this letter the business owner expressed not only contempt for management, but some very contemptuous opinions about their own [...]
Read moreI am posting this for my own reference and that of my clients. Originally from LenaShore.com Adding links to files in your WordPress pages and posts is just as easy as adding images. Follow these instructions below to add links to your own files. I need to upload my file. Login to your admin area. [...]
Read moreMost email programs, from Gmail to Outlook, allow you to add a signature block to the bottom of your emails. If you are using an email exclusively or primarily for business, this ability provides an opportunity for you to market yourself and your firm. In my case, I add my name, what I do and [...]
Read moreI put together this cheat sheet for my web clients who are using WordPress to maintain their own sites. In addition to the default tools, it includes some of the tools from the TinyMCE Advanced Plug in . Feel free to pass it around, just spell my name right.
Read moreBehold my certification all ye mighty, and tremble. It was a 110 question test, a great number of questions about billing and quite a few expecting you to pass judgment on keywords and ad organization. No coding questions, like how to make any one of a set of keywords show up automatically in a headline. [...]
Read moreI have my clients embed Picasa Slideshows into their blogs and webpages as an easy way to put photos on the web. However, sometimes you can’t get just the right size photo, and you have black bars or black borders on your nice slideshow. What to do? When you embed your code, you see [...]
Read moreYour default font on your website ought to be Arial or Verdana. San-Serif fonts are easier to read online (Microsoft did very long studies to determine this fact) than serifed fonts like Times or Garamond. Fonts with serifs (the curlicues you see at the ends of the stroke of the letter) are easier to read [...]
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