Lately I’ve had several phone calls from people who wanted to know how to set-up Google Analytics for their WordPress blogs. I understand, of course, why they’re interested. G Analytics provides a lot of killer tracking information that allows a site owner to get a deep look into a lot of aspects of her or [...]

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In the spirit of providing very quick explanations about how to do things on the web that may seem complicated…here’s one about a good way to set up your RSS feed.
First, go to Feedburner and sign up.
Get the RSS icon code for your account from the Feedburner gui.
Put it in a WP widget.
Then, grab the [...]

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Internet Explorer is enough to get any web developer frustrated at best…and, more likely…angry on occasions. Why Microsoft refuses to comply with CSS and web standards …well, it’s not beyond me… it’s just that sometimes it’s hard to believe that any company could have such a high level of arrogance that so adversely affects so [...]

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A lot of our clients these days want video on their sites…and, I’ve taken to putting them on my own sites. The natural choice to facilitate this functionality is, naturally, YouTube. Why? Because it takes out a lot of middle steps that would really complicate (and add expense) without necessarily adding a significant improvement.
The problem? [...]

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It turns out styling a Wordpress Tag Cloud can be a bit of a bugger. You can’t just control it with your style sheet until you tinker around a little with functions.php.

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Wow. I really like how this CSS menu is written. So nice. Although it links to a .js, the urls aren’t getting buried in that mumbo jumbo… they’re kept in a list in the html.

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I stumbled across this when I was looking for something else, and, it sort of blew my mind!

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I see Ann Smarty has recently written a banging article: How To Diagnose Your Site with Google Advanced Search. Some great stuff from Ann about how you can use one simple tool, Google, to tell quite a lot about a website.

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For a long time…before I really got into eCommerce and web marketing, I wanted to be able to sell my paintings and art work on line. And, the idea of it seemed so daunting. And, after a bit, I had heard that PayPal provided an easier way to do it…but, it too seemed so complex.
I’m [...]

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Do you think that graphic design concerns enter political campaigns?
They sure do. Read this interesting piece about Obama’s font!

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