Posts tagged howto
QuickTip: How To Install PhotoShop Brushes In GIMP
Mar 17th
In the design world the most popular image editor and design tool is PhotoShop. With PhotoShop being the most popular tool for designers available, Most designers and design bloggers use and create resources for PhotoShop only. But PhotoShop isn’t the only image editor available. Out of all the of the editors available for people to use, GIMP comes out on top and might be considered to be as good or better than PhotoShop by some. For those interested in design or working on their own images or logos, GIMP is the perfect tool and the only investment a website owner / blogger More >
An Easy Guide to Setting Up Your Privacy Settings on Facebook
Jan 14th
After all the issues with Facebook and their privacy settings issues, I thought I would share with everyone how you can set your privacy settings and block those from seeing your private information or even filter out what status updates and images you add by setting up friend lists.
Why Would You Want Privacy On FacebookWhen I first started using Facebook, I had everything set for private, but as Facebook made changes, they changed or removed certain privacy settings. When this happens, your social stream is open to world. In most cases, social media networks are set to be public and you More >
GrowMaps Anti-Spambot is a Better Way to Combat Comment Spam
Oct 8th
Today, I found out about a new Anti-spam plugin released by Growmap, and Andy of Commentluv. As of yesterday the new plugin was released to the WordPress Directory! I have been waiting for better spam fitting tools for a while, and think this plugin may be the one!
What I like about this plugin is, it was design by a group of great bloggers and small owners and Andy did the code. To me this how the blogging community should work. He runs a great sit and he mad coding skills when it comes to WordPress coding. If the code is broken, or More >
QuickTip: How To Resize Images Using GIMP
Jul 1st
Many bloggers and social media users carry cameras with them to catch that perfect shot or use large images on their sites and profiles. These images look good to the viewer, but it kills the site load time. Now a days, this is not a big deal as it use to be since most users have broadband service. But there are still users that do not have access to fast internet services. In addition to those that do not have broadband, users and search engines do not like slow load times. Slow load times kill your return visits and search engine rankings. More >
Back-End Solutions to Having a Quick Load-Time
Jun 21st
There’s a long list of best practices for making your website load quickly. If you’re a design/interactive marketing agency, this is especially important. Often times you don’t have maybe have your actual website loading quickly, but other things are preventing it from being quick and snappy.
A lot of these things have to do with your website and include cleaning up your code, making sure you don’t create any wasted database queries, and creating web friendly images and content. As important as these things are, they’ll only take you so far. You’ll fight half of this immensely important battle on the back-end More >
Add Search Functionality to Your Site
Jun 10th
Do you have a search field on your WordPress site? If not, why not add one. Having your own search engine for your site will help your visitors find what they are looking for and keep them on your site longer. By using a search field, visitors can type in a set of keywords and the on-site search engine will list all topics related to the search. Adding a search field to a WordPress site is essential, as your blog grows, and more posts goes into the archives, a blog becomes harder to navigate and older pages get harder to find. Most More >
Quick Tip: How To Use GIMP to Easily and Quickly Color Correct and Image
May 25th
Everyday, I see social media users upload images that need color correction. As a designer and amateur photography fan I get turned off reading a blog or looking at images that are dull and boring. One of the easiest things you can do us a image editor and spend five minutes to correct the color and give it a kick of color if the image is a little white washed do to the sun or if the lighting is poor.
Some may say that they can not afford Photoshop or they do not know how to use and image editor to correct these issues. More >
Gmail Gets Drag and Drop Attachments and Insert Calendar Invitation
Apr 16th
Yesterday on Google’s Official blog they announced two new features were added to Gmail. For those that do not use Gmail, Gmail is a popular email system that has been growing with popularity since its invite only release in 2004. What different with about these new features is that it was rolled out for general use and is hard coded right into Gmail’s services instead of options that have to be installed through Google Labs. With most new features Google releases to the labs first. The features that were added are drag and drop attachments, and insert calendar invitation.
Drag and Drop Attachments More >Blogging Tips – Starting a New Blog
Jan 25th
When starting a blog there are many things to think about. Some of those thoughts are, what should I right about, what blogging system do I use, how do I get traffic to my site and how can I get people to comment on my sites. There are some many different things you can do you help your site become successful, I good blog should be researched, outlined and prepared before the site goes live.
Finding Your NicheWhen you decide you are ready to start blogging, think about what niche you want to write in. I have More >
How to Raise Your Search Engine Rankings
Jan 23rd
I just wanted to give some quick and easy helpful tips to help you drive traffic and raise your search engine ratings.
Original content is key, search Engines love new original content! They hate plagiarism and duplicate work. If you are a blogger, then writing new posts every day would be ideal. If you can not write that many shoot for just during the weekdays or at least once a week.
Never Join Mass Directories. Large directories with thousands of sites are just too big. It takes a lot of work to be seen in these. There are far better ways to get More >
How to Comment Out PHP Code
Mar 18th
Posted by James in tutorials
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At one time or another, every blogger using WordPress will come across an issue with a plugin or theme that is causing errors. If a bloggers wants to fix these types of issues they need to learn PHP to make any database coded changes to the system. Lately, I have been going through my plugins, and fixing poorly coded plugins and adding new features through pieces of code that I found or had someone create for me. Just playing with the code has taught me a couple of things and one of those that I need to go back relearn PHP the other More >