Preparing Firefox for WordPress – A visual guide to fast WP access
This WordPress tutorial will show you how to setup Firefox so that getting to your dashboard or posting an article is quick and easy. (Screencast Video Training included)
Take the time and follow this guide step-by-step and WordPress will be only 2 clicks away!
New WordPress E-Commerce plugin hits it out of the park
If you’ve been looking for a smooth, cleanly implemented, well supported e-commerce solution for WordPress then read on…
Shopp
What It Does: Allows you to sell both shipped and digital products or services from your WordPress website. It offers a variety of different payment gateways to suit many nationalities and requirements. All major gateways such as PayPal are supported.
Who Needs It: Anyone that wants a serious e-commerce business.
Google Language Translation for your website
Gadgets are a great new feature in Google that gives you access to a wide range of useful applications that can be embedded on your website or on your iGoogle home page.
You do have a gmail account don’t you? If not fix this now by clicking here: http://mail.google.com/mail/signup
To create your language translation gadget visit this link:
http://translate.google.com/translate_tools?hl=en
On this page you can also add one-click translations from with your browser.
Pick the language of your blog or website then copy and paste the resulting code into a text widget in WordPress or in dreamweaver simply paste in the code where you want the Gadget to appear.
Thats it! Refresh your page to see the new Google language translation tool.
Seth Godin Discusses: What Is Marketing?
Seth Godin has his finger on the pulse of business and buyers in the US and abroad. In this brief video interview he talks about the nature of Marketing.
He defines it as:
The art of telling a story to a consumer that they want to hear, that lets them persuade themselves to buy something. Inherent to that story:
- You have to have something they want. You must not force it on them.
- You have to be authentic. Tell the truth.
- Your story has to be so remarkable that people want to tell your story to others.
Remember, we have so much choice today that permission marketing is just the beginning of your strategy.
The nature of the web has ubiquitized products and services. What you provide must serve a real need in your audience but also have that special quality that shows a deep regard for elegant solutions.
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How To Add Custom Google Search to your website
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) :
How To Upload using Cpanel – Install WordPress plugin WP-Easy Uploader
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.
Upload A Plugin within WordPress – Built in and Wp-Easy Uploader
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.
Seth Godin: Sliced bread and other marketing delights
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
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!
