How to add a Favicon to your WordPress website
What is a Favicon? It’s a small 16×16 pixel icon that shows up in your browser to the left of the web address.
It also helps distinguish your site in your browsers bookmarks and is also used in some social bookmarking sites as well. Here’s how you can easily create the file and make it show up on your website.
Uploading and Installing Themes in WordPress
With a few clicks, your whole WordPress site can look totally different. The content remains but is displayed differently thanks to some awesome coding wizardry. Fortunately for us, getting some new layouts for your site is pretty easy.
This will show you how to upload and install a new WP theme that you have downloaded. It also covers how to browse the WordPress.org themes site as well.
Installing Plugins in WordPress
Making use of the huge range of great plugins (essentially add-on code for your website) became wonderfully easy from WordPress 2.7 and onwards.
Here we show you how to quickly and easily find and add plugins to your self-hosted WordPress website.
The Free and Simple Mailing List solution for your Blog
Having an email sign-up form on your site is essential, but some of the solutions are either too complicated or cost money.
Fortunately Google comes to the rescue here with a website they acquired last year. Feedburner.
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.
iPhoto Tutorial – Importing Images from CD – Screencast Training Movie
This short training movie will show you how to easily import a CD of images into Apple iPhoto ready for your slide shows or web display.
We also touch on an important iPhoto management tip.
If you hold the Option key when you launch iPhoto it will allow you to create a new library or choose a previous one. Great if you have many projects and do not want them to be mixed up together.
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!
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.
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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.
Writing Posts and Pages in WordPress 2.6 – Screencast Tutorial
This 27 minute Screencast Training goes into depth, and will show you how to post articles and pages in WordPress 2.6.
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