Earlier tonight I had the pleasure of sitting in on Emily Grosvenor’s class on Beginning Blogging. Emily is a talented writer who runs a great blog at Desperately Seeking Salem, so I knew she would do a bang up job guiding others into the rewarding and frustrating world of blogging. A point that often comes [...]
If you are a WordPress user who also happens to use the Thesis theme, chances are you may have run into a snag if you upgraded to WordPress 3.0. Specifically, I’m referring to the inability to access the “Custom File Editor” of Thesis that happens after you upgrade. The error message that appears on your [...]
Twitter recently announced that they will soon begin to pass all shared links through their own URL shortener. This would apply to any link posted using the web interface or through third party applications such as Tweetdeck. In the near future, when you share a personalized link, it will be wrapped in Twitter’s shortener (http://t.co) [...]
As you go through your Twitter journey you will no doubt run across hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions of people. Each one has their own way of doing things on Twitter, some better than others. If your goal is to be successful with Twitter, then you should avoid the following behaviors at all costs. The [...]
I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about whether or not my website’s code is valid or not. And by valid, I mean if it conforms to the W3C standards or not. Sure, I try to always use the proper markup when creating sites, but even if I slip up a time or two, [...]
Dwight Schrute knows a thing or two about beets and how to sell them. Dwight’s statement about placing the most attractive beets on top as a way of enticing people to pull in to his beet stand is a principle that can be applied to blogging as well.