Tim McNabb – Webmaster

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 is in turn registered with Google’s Webmaster Tools,  so I went to Google and did a site search to find it.  Fortunately,  I knew of a [...]

A 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 client base.  Those familiar with the characters involved were mightily amused and had a good time pointing out the incandescent foolishness of the sentiments in [...]

I 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.
Navigate to the page or post you want to insert the link/document.
Place your cursor where you want the link to appear.
Click the “Add media” icon next to “Upload/Insert”. (It’s [...]

Most 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 any additional contact information I’d like folks to use.  For instance:
Tim McNabb
Webmaster
TimMcnabb.com
twitter.com/McWebmaster 
I am still debating if I want to include my cell phone number.  I do [...]

I 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.

Behold 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.
They conflated “title” with “headline” which was confusing to me, but later questions where “title” had to mean
“headline” allowed me to go back and [...]

I 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 what looks like a bunch of gobbledygook. Within this code look for the following:
RGB=0×000000
That number is the hexidecimal code for the color black. To make [...]

Your 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 in print. Don’t ask me why.   If you wrote an article in Microsoft Word and just paste it [...]