Effective Classy Websites

The crew over at Commoncraft understand the shift that is going on. We are more and more needing to find trusted sources and people that can save us TIME by filtering out the dross and giving information to us in a simple form.

Twitter represents yet another move towards this ideal state of information filtering. It’s not perfect but with the right tools it can be awesome.

So here, for those people that haven’t had an experience of Twitter is a simple video explanation. And for those that have, perhaps we can soak up some of the easy-to-follow language to incorporate into our online communication. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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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. Read the rest of this entry »

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: Read the rest of this entry »

Perry Belcher explains in cool simple terms how he uses social media services like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and others to meet and share with people.

His approach is simple and sensible and reminds us that social networking is about making friends and if you have something to “Sell” it should come up casually and naturally rather than being a obsession that turns people off.

Perry Belcher demonstrates how YOU can use social media in business without being a jerk. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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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. Read the rest of this entry »