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How to add a Favicon to your WordPress website

Posted by Herrin On November - 11 - 2009

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.

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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.

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The Free and Simple Mailing List solution for your Blog

Posted by Herrin On October - 12 - 2009

FeedburnerHaving 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. Read the rest of this entry »

Google Language Translation for your website

Posted by Herrin On January - 8 - 2009

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.google-translation

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.

world-linkAdding a link to another website or URL is easy in WordPress 2.6.

The steps are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

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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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