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Over the holidays, there were some “too-good-to-be-true” sales on Web site hosting by some hosting companies. “Unbelievably low” prices! You know the hype. One hosting company got so many inquiries that its site crashed … that is not a good sign.
Let me explain why hosting prices have gotten so low:
Competition among an over-supply. There are [...]
There is a lot of buzz about the new Thesis theme for Wordpress. So, I asked the people at Thesis for a few words to describe what’s special about this popular theme:
You want your blog to shine, but you’re tired of sifting through hundreds of subpar themes? DIYthemes is proud to bring you the answer [...]
No one wants their blog to get hacked. But, it is happening more frequently by obviously malicious hackers. Part of the reason could be because everyone knows the username of any Wordpress blog – it’s admin. So, all a hacker has to do is develop a software program to figure out the password.
If you have [...]
I am asked regularly for guidance on selecting themes for new Wordpress blogs. So, I thought I would write a suggestions here.
While Wordpress is a fabulous behind-the-scenes software that powers each Wordpress blog, a theme gives a blog its visual appearance. There are thousands of Wordpress themes, and most are free or available for a [...]
Wordpress 2.7, a significant redesign inside and out of the popular blog software, is now available for download and installation. Download from Wordpress.org.
About the installation, I found it to be extremely easy – simply upload all of the new Wordpress 2.7 files into a blog’s folder that contains Wordpress. Wordpress 2.7 installs over the older [...]
I am frequently checking new blogs and Web sites I visit against Alexa.com, the free online site ranking service owned by Amazon.com. While Alexa has its detractors – often among webmasters of poor ranking sites – it is not bad, in my opinion, for taking a snapshot of where a blog or site stands in [...]
Wordpress 2.6.5 is immediately available as a free download, and fixes one security problem and three bugs. Wordpress recommends everyone upgrade to this release, and it’s easy.
Just download version 2.6.5 at www.wordpress.org and place it temporarily on your desktop. Then, FTP all of the files to your Wordpress blog. That’s it. No need to take [...]
You know you are too popular on Twitter when …
People don’t invite you out—they go without you and livetweet you about it.
Because you instantly tweet about everything you do, you no longer see the point of confessing in church.Â
You know where the Twitter Anonymous 12-step meetings are held (“Hi, my name is @, and I’m [...]
Aaron Brazell has written a terrific blog posting, Ten Things You Need to Know About Wordpress 2.7:
The saga of cheatsheets and reference sheets continues with this outline of the hot new WordPress 2.7 which will be released soon. Like WordPress 2.5, this is a radical release. Like WordPress 2.5, the bulk of the changes affect [...]
When a search engine checks your blog, it essentially sees on page because a blog runs from a MySql database. One page doesn’t get search engines very exciting. So, it’s to your advantage to install a plugin for a site map generator. The best one I know of is Google XML Sitemaps. It’s easy to [...]
Hi there. I'm Michael Pollock, and I train coaches, consultants and other solo-professionals on how to use the web to impact more people, earn more money and live a bigger life ... continued.
