There's always a reason you might want to edit some of your images. Maybe you want to create a watermark or crop something out, make something a bit more fancy or all sorts of things. In my How to Make a Blog Button post (and How to Make and Install a Favicon), Picnik was the tool I {Continue reading…}
How to Customize Your FeedBurner Email Sign-Up Box
January 31, 2012 23 Comments
I mentioned before the importance of email subscriptions and making your sign-up form really easy to find. I see a lot of blogs with the generic FeedBurner sign-up form in their sidebar. The default form looks like this: Now, there isn't anything wrong with this and if you have this in your sidebar, way to go! {Continue reading…}
How to Make Your Home Page Static (Not a Blog)
January 25, 2012 10 Comments
Having your own website is becoming more and more common in this day and age. I talk a lot about blogs here, but you can apply just about everything I talk about to regular websites as well. But sometimes we need a site that isn't a blog. Sometimes we don't want to update our sites {Continue reading…}
How to Make Any Blog Post or Web Page Print Friendly
January 23, 2012 12 Comments
Have you ever wanted to print out a post or page to read on the go, without wasting ink and space on ads or sidebars? Maybe you want to print something out to follow along as you work something out on your computer, and you don't want to have to keep switching screens? Or maybe {Continue reading…}
How to Change the Number of Posts Displayed on Your Homepage
December 3, 2011 4 Comments
There are many things you can do to keep WordPress running smoothly and efficiently. I cover some of those things here. A post from Search Engine People called How to Keep Your WordPress Site Running Optimally showed up in my reader recently and I appreciated this tip: 4. Avoid Over-stacking While it may be tempting to call {Continue reading…}
Genesis is 25% off!
November 22, 2011 43 Comments
The theme I use for this blog (and all my blogs, actually) is Genesis. I used free WordPress themes for many years, but I wanted more built-in flexibility & optimization so I decided to buy Genesis. I have been more than happy. Everything at StudioPress.com (the folks who make Genesis) is 25% off right now through November {Continue reading…}
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