User Interface Design - What Would You Do?

Recently I went to shut off email forwarding on my wife’s hosting account and was confused by what should be a simple task become a stressful decision. Below is a screen shot of the choices I had that would allow me to shut off email forwarding.

What would be your next step to shut off email forwarding? Let [...]

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24 Terrific Tweets

This is a continuation of my weekly Terrific Tweets from Twitter - 22 Terrific Tweets and 23 Terrific Tweets lists.  Here are 24 Terrific Tweets from just an inkling of the Twitter community.  There’s gold in them there tweets.

1. – The first week of Ed Dale’s The 30 Day Challenge has been completed and there continues to be a [...]

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Upgrading PHP

A couple of months ago I was trying out the PicLens WordPress Plugin.  After installing it and trying to activate it I received a message that said, “This plugin requires PHP 5.1 and you have 4.x.  So what to do?

After investigating a bit using Google and instant messaging my host provider, the solution was to add this line:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 [...]

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Four WordPress Themes and Two WordPress Plugins Go Into A Bar…

When you first start blogging in WordPress it can be a daunting task just to pick a theme.  Themes are what makes your blog look somewhat unique or completely unique.  WordPress itself started its theme directory back up with some pretty nice free themes. However, there are also free themes scattered throughout the Internet as well, all you have [...]

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WordPress Theme Previewer

While working in the latest version of WordPress and trying out different themes I noticed they implemented a theme previewer that shows you what the theme you’re about to select will look like before applying it.

This is great because in previous versions of WordPress you could only see a thumbnail view of the theme, click on the thumbnail and [...]

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WordPress Plugin Random Redirect

Matt Mullenweg creator of WordPress released a neat little plugin called Random Redirect.  It allows your blog readers to randomly discover your blog posts. Matt says the Random Redirect plugin:
Allows you to create a link to yourblog.example.com/?random which will redirect someone to a random post on your blog, in a StumbleUpon-like fashion. You can also specific in the [...]

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