Thursday, May 17, 2012 – 9:30 am – 11:30 am at Naples Free-Net Computer Lab 5035 Tamiami Trail East Naples, FL 34113 Sandy Reed, Freelance Writer for Naples Daily News & Florida Weekly, will share with you simple but powerful ways to identify stories, write them and publish them in a consistent manner, no matter if [...]
March 11, 2012
Series: More Search Engine Luv’ with WordPress If you look up a subpage or a post on your WordPress site and the browser address bar reads similar to www.yoursiteurl.org/?p=29 or www.yoursiteurl.org/?page_id=48, you are missing a great opportunity to provide the search engine crawlers with information as to the nature and topic of your page or post via [...]
August 4, 2011
In the last couple of weeks, a few webmasters contacted us that all of a sudden a few images wouldn’t show or header graphics disappeared. Here is what happened: The hosting partner changed, for the second time in a month, IP addresses of the server. As this is quite a common occurance, your site’s uptime [...]
July 8, 2011
How to install a plugin on WordPress, Example: Ultimate Google Analytics Plugins are the WordPress way to allow for extension of the Core Application with additional functionality. The WordPress.org website maintains the central place where plugins are available to WordPress installation. The Core Admin section ties into this central repository and allows for download of [...]
June 22, 2011
While reviewing some of the changes to WordPress for the upcoming release, I found details on three new features that might be of interest to you NFN4Good WordPress site administrators and content producers. Here are the tweets I posted earlier this week. From what I was able to read online, these are only three of the [...]
June 20, 2011
This spring discussion with walk-in clinic attendees, have helped us, with the recommendation for WordPress Updates. Note: As you all have your own installation instance of WordPress, you are quite autonomous in how you would like to handle updates on your site. Below is just a recommendation. Major Updates: Example: Current version is 3.1.3. A [...]
March 30, 2011
For those of you that use Twitter a bit, you might have found that the new Twitter includes some great media views in their streams. On a different site, I have collected quite a few of those, just to make sure that when I use a third party tool to post files and videos (or [...]
March 15, 2011
Thanks to the folks at Sandollars of Naples, we looked at the various options available, so your visitors can print some of the information from your website. Use Browser Print Feature The first option is the native browser printing features. IE, Firefox or Safari always allow you to print information off of the web. If [...]
March 15, 2011
Between walk-in clinics, I answer WordPress questions via e-mail. And last week, Bill Coakley, WordPress advocate and mentor to three organizations in transition, asked me the question: “How can we turn of the leave reply option on all pages?”. There is one place that controls the behavior of your site regarding comments and trackbacks. Comments [...]
February 22, 2011
It’s a never-ending story. Stay relevant alone won’t keep your readers to slightly disappear. Click rates drop even from most active subscribers Amplify’d from blog.mailchimp.com After about 4 months, your average click rate for your average email subscriber drops to less than 1%. We could talk about ways to keep people engaged longer, like sending [...]
April 22, 2012
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