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How To Add Custom Google Search to your website

Posted by Herrin On January - 5 - 2009

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Want fast Google powered search on your website?

Creating fast, user defined search adds a service to your website that serves your visitor and you. Create the search engine, copy and paste some code to one of your web pages and then you can edit it later from your gmail account.

Add the credibility and reliability of Google powered search by following these steps (links open in a new window) : Read the rest of this entry »

WordPress 2.7 users: You can use the inbuilt plugin and auto install feature to install the WP-Easy Uploader plugin. This bypasses having to use Cpanel in the below example. (Go to Plugins >> Add New. In the search type “uploader” and a little way down you will see WP-Easy Uploader – Choose Install Now and foloow the prompts to have this plugin installed.)

This short video Screencast will show you how to upload plugins (or anything for that matter) using Cpanel.

Cpanel is a very common admin backend system that comes with most hosting packages.

In this case we want to upload and install the WP-Easy Uploader plugin. This one plugin gives us the ability to upload anythign to our WordPress blog. Plugins, Themes and anything in fact.

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Being open source, features in WordPress come in the form of plugins. Made by developers.

Geeks basically, that make really cool new features available by creating little applications that run within the structure of WordPress.

Hot Tip: Find new plugins and themes fast! Try our new Google WordPress search engine page.

Want to add video from YouTube and Quicktime movies to your site? Try the Vipers Video quicktags Plugin. Maybe you want to make sure the email addresses you display on your page can’t be harvested by spam bots. Go for the DBD EMail encoder.

This 5 minute screencast will show you the most elegant expedient way to try out new plugins on your site.

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Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights

Posted by Herrin On November - 16 - 2008

The one and only Seth Godin talking on Ted.com about marketing and the adapting approach to the current marketing zeitgeist. In general we are seeing a shift towards more information and less time.

Seth is a fantasic teacher and an innovative marketer with some very relevant ideas that reflect the general state of what it takes to make an impression in the current marketplace. Enjoy!

WordPress 2.7 Sneak Preview

Posted by Herrin On November - 12 - 2008

The next update for WordPress is coming in the next week or two. It features some awesome new changes to the interface that I can say are great improvements.

I am testing the beta 2.7 on this site now and I am quickly seeing how much smoother the process is becoming. Its cleaner, more usable and a little faster as well. Check out the new movie released by WordPress.com to allay fears of an ever changing interface!

How To Choose and Secure a Domain name

Posted by Herrin On November - 6 - 2008

Before you can create a website it needs a name.

www.google.com is a domain.  www.gofindyourself.net is a domain.

Even though it seems like putting the horse before the cart, what it does is get you thinking about what you are about. This is a good thing.



If possible a domain name should serve at least one if not all of these qualities: Read the rest of this entry »

Sidebar Widgets – Creating and Editing – WordPress Tutorial

Posted by Herrin On October - 30 - 2008

Take charge of your Sidebar in WordPress!

Grab the full quicktime downloads of the latest version of WordPress Screencasts. Subscribe to our free newsletter now. (look up!)

This video training shows you how to create and edit sidebar widgets in your self hosted WordPress website. A summary of which is as follows:

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Herrin Larkan

I am an Aussie guy helping every day people:
• Get leverage online,
• Navigate the web more skillfully and securely,
• Use the dynamic web platform, Wordpress.
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