Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 |
Maybe it’s just me, but this time of the year I spend more energy than usual thinking of money, finances, numbers, business, blah blah blah. Watch it creep into all my posts.
Take this one on writer’s websites, in response to the usual newbie question (let’s pretend that’s you) on whether one should invest in a website or not.
No brainer? Well, since the assumption is that you’re a writing industry newb, you won’t have any clips yet. So, should you spend money on a website/Web hosting?
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Friday, November 30th, 2007 |
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By John and Matt Rhodes, this report reveals the techniques savvy online publishers use to generate tons of reliable and regular traffic using the power of RSS feeds.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 |
For a lot of writing and notetaking and other utilitarian tasks (such as keeping simple databases/lists and “Internet age” duties like editing HTML and other source code), I prefer using a good old text editor. LIke Windows NotePad.
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007 |
Wouldn’t it make sense to conclude that if you knew the top 100 key terms that folks are searching for online at practically any given point in time, you’d have a heck of a headstart knowing what articles or content to write about?
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 |
I may have already mentioned in passing that my main desktop PC in my basement home office, a form that has served me very well as my main work PC in all the years prior, now serves predominantly utilitarian duties while I clickety-clack away on my “new” laptop upstairs.
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 |
Picking up where we left off in Blog “Income” From Donations can be Substantial, here’s a dirt-easy (and free) solution for you WordPress users: Go get the Buy Me a Beer PayPal Donation plugin like I did.
In a nutshell, it lets your WordPress blog’s visitors send you monetary donations via PayPal. The plugin automates the whole process enough to make it as much a no-brainer as possible.
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Friday, November 16th, 2007 |
As a working example, let’s actually try to modify a WordPress theme a bit and see if we can tweak it to look more to our satisfaction.
If you’ll remember, my favorite WordPress theme is Kubrick, but its justified bodies of text is not to my liking. So, let’s change that and make those bodies left-justified.
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Friday, November 16th, 2007 |
If you’re looking for actual technical info and specs, this isn’t the article to read, since it will soon become painfully clear that I — the guy who got a college degree on this very thing and who actually spent a number of years getting paid designing and programming some pretty complex software — know practically diddly-squat about most of what passes for computer programming nowadays.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007 |
As I’ve been wading knee-deep in help wanted ads and announcements for writers and editors to see how best to package and present this info here, it’s become plainly obvious how easy it is for spammers to harvest email addresses — many ads use (from the looks of it) someone’s real everyday use email address as a contact method.
Many of you do that too on your sites and blogs. And you all wonder why you get so much spam.
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