In a word - NO!! To a lot of folks who don't understand what it means to be online, it can feel like jumping off a cliff with this question. Some folks are given a hand-me-down PC and some rush out and buy a new PC, bring it home, plug it in and hope for the best. The bad part about buying a new PC with security software already installed on it could mean that there is a Continue Reading
My First WordPress Theme – Part 5
Just a quick update on this WordPress theme I've been developing. I've added the right sidebar, the post navigation and the footer. Next up is the layouts for single post, page, search results, and the art gallery, and this thing should be close to being ready to release for the artist who wants it. So here's the screen shot of the blog portion of the theme. I ran into Continue Reading
Provide A Picassa Web Album In Your Blog Post Or Website
There's quite a few photo galleries out there but this is one some folks might not know about or just forgot. It's Google's Picassa Web Albums. You can upload your photos to a Picassa Web Album and share with everyone on your blog or website. If you have a Google account you can create a Picassa Web Album, make sure it is shared for public viewing, and upload some photos. Continue Reading
Groovy Linkage for March 14
photo credit: DL (not Hughley) Guy Kawasaki announces a new site called Alltop. Alltop aggregates "all the top" sites on the web into one web page. Alltop is categorized by topics. They import stories from the top websites and blogs approximately every 10 minutes. Alltop is another one of those sites you can spend quite a bit of time on like popurls. Read their about Continue Reading
How To Transfer Files Using FTP
photo credit: chaosinjune FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. I'll talk about FTP in the context of blogging. If you've started blogging and you need to transfer files between your computer and the computer your blog is hosted on, you'll be doing that using FTP. Why Do I Need To Transfer Files? Good question. :) Let's say you want to include audio in a blog Continue Reading