Hello Bloggers. I’ve set up a secret email address for posting to my WordPress blog (not for WordPress.com uses) so I can send my blog updates a cellphone or web mail, for times when I’m not available to login to my site. Since I’m hosting my site with a paid host company, I set up [...]

A. Use the Add Media icons on the toolbar to upload files or link to images online. On the Editing toolbar in a Post or Page editing screen, do the following: Click the Add Media icon for Add an image. Use the Choose files to upload button to add files from your hard drive. Or [...]

After completing the initial WordPress installation and configuration, I recommend making these additions to add important functionality to your site. Spam checker/eliminator Akismet; sign up for an API Key. Contact forms cForms II Contact Form 7 Drop down menus dTabs Uses CSS 3.0 options which do not currently validate with w3.org Multi-level Navigation Plugins Uses [...]

Basic steps to updating a WordPress installation Most parts of the WordPress site can be edited within the Dashboard. If you want to update styles, however, it is possibly faster to do it inside an external editor such as Dreamweaver or TextWrangler rather than doing it in the Theme editing screens in the Dashboard. Update [...]

When you are logged in, you’ll see the Dashboard/Site Admin area. Click the Posts->Add New menu. Type a descriptive title. Leave out dates; they can go in the first line of the Post. Type news in the main editing box. Type who, what, when, where, how, and why. Add more detail if needed. Use the [...]

More than likely, your visitors will print your pages if they are full of useful content. But the design of your site may increase the number of pages printed, use a lot of ink, or cutoff content on either site. View your website in the browser’s Print Preview. What do you notice? Too much ink [...]

To tie-in buy-now, subscription, donation, and gift certificate buttons to your wordpress.com blog, youll have to do a abit of coding. Do not be afraid; it’s just copying and paste, after all. The basic concept uses this generic set of HTML tags to get your code working: <a href=”https:/paypal URL code”> Links to the proper [...]

Three main options allow you to add links to web sites: Add favorite sites to a Blogroll in the sidebar. Link to another web site article, pdf file, or movie. Embed a movie, widget, or RSS feed. Here is how: Add favorite sites to a Blogroll in the sidebar. Copy the address of the link [...]

Really Simple Sindication (RSS) feeds allow you to read many headlines and excerpts from other web sites from these locations: A web site post, page, or sidebar. A browser toolbar/bookmark bar A News aggregator program. Offering your site visitors the option to bookmark your site as a favorite is easy. Adding the RSS feed ability [...]

Before you add music please note: Background music is often irritating to your visitors. If you visit a site with music that starts when you land on the home page, you might be startled if your speakers are up loud. The loud music may also startle others around you. Music files sizes are large and [...]

This table is a brief overview of what you can do with the two versions of WordPress: WordPress.com Free hosting Less likely to be hacked DB is backed up Less maintenance Tie to domain name is optional Wordpess.org Free to download. Many themes available. Easier to customize themes if you are a web designer. Many [...]

The tag to add to your WordPress.com blog when you need a simple contact form is: [contact-form] Read Contact Form Updates by Rick. If the visitor to your site is logged into your site, then the contact info fields do not show. If they are not logged in then you see the contact fields.

This widget of my blog posts was built with Spring Widgets. Widgets can be created to show blog posts, gallery slideshows, and provide tools. They can be embedded in web sites, blogs, social networking sites, your MacOS X Dashboard, and your iGoogle home page, among other locations. When you make one you know clients will [...]

WordPress is a wonderful tool. The image uploading functions are quite confusing, however. Here’s a quick tutorial for making galleries. Login to your WordPress account and get to your blog’s Dashboard. Click the Write->Post or Write->Page menus. On the toolbar, click Add Media. The Add Media screen will allow you to select several items in [...]

Here are just a few tips to help keep visitors to your site from taking your images: Add a copyright statement to the caption, title attribute, alt attribute, or file name. Add a watermark to each image with your copyright. Here are some tool options Photoshop Using CSS and PNG file format Watermark Factory Add [...]

Optimized images meet these specifications: Small file size Keep file size less than 20k if you can. Exact dimensions Crop and reduce the size of you image to fit the dimensions of the space in your web page. Correct file format Online photos are usually .jpg. Flat-color images like logos and clipart are usually .gif [...]

Anyone with a computer can usually find some type of image editing software in the Applications or Accessories folders. On the Windows platform, look in the following directories for options: Programs->Accessories->Paint. Low-tech program that will let you resize, crop, and save in different formats. Picture Manager Photo library program that allows you to resize, crop, [...]