Category: Web
When to invest in a paid theme for a website?
It can be tricky to decide when it’s time to plunk down some hard, cold cash (or plastic) for a design. This will walk you through your design options so you can make an educated decision.
Website Emergency Survival Plan
What do you do when the power goes out on your website? What happens when things go wrong with your site? Do you have a backup plan?
How much a website actually costs.
It doesn’t take much to get a professional website up and running. How much exactly, you ask? Less than you think – click through to find out.
Reader Highlight: Loren Wade of Zionic Life
Loren Wade is starting out, just like you. Learn how he’s making things work and join the discussion around how to get started!
6 Tips to Conquer the Fear of Permanent Content
Ever felt hesitation to start a blog because you’re afraid of posting something you’ll regret? Then read on, my friend. These tips will help you learn to overcome that fear.
Launching: Small business web tips newsletter (with free download)
Today I would like to introduce my email newsletter titled Small Business Web Tips.
Free Where Do I Start? Worksheet is sent to you the day after you subscribe
Extra strategies, downloads and tips will be sent in the newsletter
I will only be sending great content that you will be excited to read
Doubly special downloads and special treats will be sent to members on my list who give the most interaction (read the emails, click the links, and take action on the missions I’ll be sending you)
This newsletter is great for anyone who wants to be awesome and do really well online.
Go sign up and get small business web tips with your free worksheet!
Design Boot Camp: Episode 1
I want to start a series called Design Boot Camp.
It’s simple: I will post a list of parameters to follow. I will create my own version following the parameters.
You are welcome to post comments and questions, but most of all I hope that you will post links to your own published version of the exercise.
Design Exercise
Dimensions:
500px by 500px
Colors:
3 colors only
Text:
Must include the word “Inspire”
Time:
10 minutes
What I came up with:
What did you come up with?
Post your results in the comments! I might just make a post of all the best ones later on.
New motto for life: Plan less, do more.
I recently had the wonderful opportunity of listening to Fabio Sasso of Abduzeedo. Not only did I get to hear him speak, but I got the pleasure of hanging out with him for drinks afterward – where he spoke of many crazy experiences life had given him.
What did I get out of it? It came down to this quote from Fabio’s presentation:
Plan less, do more.
Everything Fabio has accomplished happened because he didn’t overthink anything – he just did them. He has now designed for Wired Magazine, MSNBC and other huge brands. He gets to travel every year. He is making a living doing what he loves.
Does that sound good to you?
Quit dreaming.
Go do something about it.
Facebook Status RSS feed: How to find it, and what to do with it
Today, I discovered Wordle. It’s this neat app that allows you to create beautiful word clouds using custom text input, an RSS feed, or your Delicious account. Well, I wanted to input my Facebook status feed, but alas – I could not find it!
After a little research, I finally found a useful post about finding your Facebook Status RSS feed at Tech Life Web, and I wanted to share my findings with you guys.
*** UPDATE 6/22/2010: Thanks to Shirish, I have learned that this only works if you’re a long time Facebook user. If these instructions aren’t working for you, it may be because you were late to the party!
*** UPDATE 6/24/2011: It would appear there’s some Facebook apps available to provide this functionality if you search for them. Anyone want to … Read More »
Setting up WordPress as a dictionary site
Updated on 12/05/2011
I just launched the WordPress Dictionary Plugin you asked for!
Check it out here:
Original Post:
Recently, I helped launch a website that served as a silly custom dictionary.
The concept was simple enough: create an online dictionary using only custom definitions. At first, I did some Google searches to see if there were any open-source dictionary apps. No such luck!
Then it occurred to me I should try WordPress. Searching the plugins, I realized that there was no dictionary plugin there either. That’s when I realized that I could set up WordPress itself to run the dictionary entirely.
Organization
I laid out a plan to make sure this would all run smoothly. I would use:
Posts: for definition entries
Custom Fields: to separate definitions, emphasis, etc. (made useful in combination with the “Get Custom Field Values” plugin)
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