The WordPress Thesis theme is now at version 1.2 and there are a few changes as well as a bit of an overhaul in the plumbing – the guts of the theme. While upgrading, if you follow the instructions by renaming your current thesis theme folder to something like thesis-old and then copy over the [...]
What is Ruby on Rails? Ruby is a programming language and Rails is a framework. What the heck’s a framework? Well you’ll find it through the resources listed below. At the Ruby Programming Language website they describe Ruby on Rails as: A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It [...]
Just a quick post to show the WordPress 2.7 Dashboard from my article WordPress 2.7 – Hemorrhage Dashboard and the updated Dashboard (see below). We’ll see how many time things change between now and their release date of November 10, 2008. October 5, 2008: October 8, 2008: More changes to come. Woo Hoo!! Instead of [...]
Recently I wanted to start Symantec’s pcAnywhere 12.1 on Windows XP and when I started it none of the icons for remote clients were showing. So I closed pcAnywhere and restarted the program. It didn’t restart. Well, instead of spending a bunch of time trying to figure it out or contacting Symantec I decided to [...]
In this article I’ll be providing a screen shot and short video that covers the WordPress 2.7 – Hemorrhage version. We’ve found out at the WordPress 2.7 Roadmap page that 2.7 will be released (cross your fingers – for some folks anyway) on Novemeber 10, 2008. So for me, I like keeping on top of [...]
I’m using the Thesis theme for this blog and decided to provide advertising in the big box on the upper right-hand side of this page. The Thesis theme has a few custom keys that you can use by providing values to those keys in your blog posts. Why would you want to do this? Good [...]
While reading various blogs this past week I’ve noticed a new search mechanism with the text Lijit. Lijit is a way to search your blog’s content and more. In their own words: Lijit is a service that searches your blog, bookmarks, blogroll and more, all from one little box. In return, we provide stats that [...]
Click here to jump to the directions and skip the following mumbo jumbo. I made An Introduction to Ubuntu 8.04 video to show people the similarities between Ubuntu and Windows. However, when we start digging into something new, like Ubuntu can be for some folks, it becomes more and more difficult as we try to [...]
In the latest version of WordPress there is a QuickPress panel on the WordPress Dashboard. It includes Title, Post, and Tags for quick posting. I’d like to design short posts to display differently on my front/home page to better distinguish a short post and a long post something like Adii does – http://www.adii.co.za/. What do [...]
The Challenge To make a buck online in 30 days – One Dollar – $1.00. Ed Dale and his team put on another 30 Day Challenge this year that ran from August 1 thru the 31st. Even though it ended in August, it really continues on so people can take it over and over for [...]
This article talks about the WordPress theme called Thesis. The WordPress Thesis themes is a new theme developed by Chris Pearson. It has been developed with search engine optimization in mind as well as ease of implementation and customizations.
For those of you who are new to blogging and trying to get traffic to your blog, consider heading over to Michael Martine’s blog Remarkablogger. Michael is graciously allowing you to introduce your blog in the comments and everyone who does is encouraged to blog about it, subscribe to other bloggers or in some way [...]
One WordPress plugin I’m using is called Psychic Search. The current version is 2.0.1. The plugin installs a menu selection on your WordPress dashboard (I’m running WordPress 2.6.1 at the moment) called Psychic Search. The Psychic Search dashboard provides: Keywords searched on and how many times in the last 24 hours Keywords searched on and [...]
Do you know Collis Ta’eed and his various websites? Here are some of them: Flash Den – Flash Components Audio Jungle – Music Loops & Sound Effects PSDTUTS – Photoshop Tutorials Freelance Switch – Freelance Advice and more He has a new site in private beta called ThemeForest. The site provides WordPress themes as well [...]
