Creating Add-On Domains in Cpanel hosting account
After you have bought a new domain name, you will want to start using it as a website address, for email or both.
First you need to make sure that the DNS settings in your domain control panel point to your hosting account.
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The DNS Settings will have been sent to you when you first purchased your web hosting server space. The Email will look something like this:
How to Make Money Blogging – Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco over at Daily Blog Tips has just published an e-book called “Making Money Blogging” that gives some awesome clearly written information about how you can earn money blogging.
You need to sign up to his mailing list to get the free e-book. Click here to get started:
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/make-money-blogging/
The e-book is broken into in 5 chapters: Content, Design & Usability, Networking, Promotion and Monetization.
Insights – Plugin Tutorial – Awesome WordPress Media and Links tool
Insights
What It Does: Allows you to quickly and easily, search for and insert YouTube movies, royalty free images from Flickr, Wikipedia links, Google searches and even links from your own site, into your posts and pages.
Insights uses a dynamic AJAX interface which loads search results in seconds, all within the WordPress posting page!
Who Needs It: Anyone that has a self-hosted WordPress website.
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.
Sidebar Widgets – Creating and Editing – WordPress Tutorial
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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:
Essential Firefox Add-ons for efficient web browsing
Firefox is a wonderfully flexible browser. A strong community of developers have created a huge range of extensions for Firefox that add many practical and enjoyable features to the experience of using the web.
Here is my list of must-have Firefox extensions.
The links open a new window where you can download the add-on.
Essential Apps and Tools for Mac and PC
I recently bought myself a PC to run Windows and some specific applications for social networking. I 
discovered what it’s like for people on the other side! I have a lot more empathy now but also I discovered that without some essential applications things are a real hassle.
So here you will find a list of essential software for the Mac and PC.
Preparing for WordPress – Essential Downloads and Setup
This article outlines some essential downloads and setup you will need to make sure that your experience with WordPress is a smooth and happy one. Screencast coming soon!
NOTE: All the links in this article open a new browser window.
How a website can help you succeed as an artist
Visual and musical artists alert!
Download the Artists Websites Offer PDF here.
I have been working for artists for many years, mostly musically but more so lately visual artists, so I do understand their concerns and values to some degree.
Aesthetics, color, design, simplicity, creativity. Many of these things seem to be important.
But also a sense of empowerment and control of the outcome. Creatively involved in their own career, and with an understanding of the unique marketing approach that compliments your personal style.
