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Website Creation

Advertising on Your Website with Chitika

September 8, 2009

I’m always looking for new and interesting ways to make a few extra pennies from my websites and blogs.  A few weeks ago I came across a targeted advertising service called Chitika.  While it’s not easy to say, it is really easy to use, and it’s a form of advertising that looks similar to Google [...]

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Moving a Website & Changing Nameservers

August 18, 2009

This week was another web ‘first’ for me.  I moved this site to a new host!  It really wasn’t very complicated, but I ran into a few speed-bumps.  I’ll run through a few things I had to do. There were 2 major obstacles for me.  First off, I’m running WordPress for this blog, and needed [...]

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Basic Tweaks for the Thesis Theme Round 1

July 16, 2009

I’ve done enough reading to know that while the learning curve for the Thesis WordPress theme may be a little bit steep, it’s worth it in the end.  I’ve also read that once you ‘get’ it, it’s easy to make new changes in the future. I’m still at the head scratching phase, but I’ll document [...]

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WordPress, and Drinking the Thesis Theme Kool Aid

June 16, 2009

6 months ago I would have thought the idea of purchasing a WordPress theme was pretty inane.  I’m by no means a great designer, but I’ve been able to toss together sites, or tweak existing themes to meet my needs. I recently learned of the Thesis Theme.  Turns out there are a LOT of blogs [...]

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Great Starter Plugins for WordPress

January 4, 2009

I’ve only been using WordPress for a short time.  I’m constantly finding new plugins that add great options and features.  I think part of the fun of having a blog is constantly adding new Widgets and Plugins. When I started this site, I instantly installed several plugins to get me up and running fast.  In [...]

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Creating the Favicon.ico Graphic for Your Website

January 4, 2009

I just created the favicon for this site!   If you don’t know what it is, the “favicon” is the tiny graphic that shows up to the left of the URL on your browser.  It is also used in your bookmarks, and it becomes a major part of the branding of a website. Since I just [...]

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