How to add a FavIcon to your WordPress website

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Maybe it is just a pet peeve of mine but I get annoyed when I see a blank FavIcon or worse yet the theme’s default icon. What is a FavIcon? A FavIcon (short for favorites icon), also known as a shortcut icon, website icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon is a 16×16 or 32×32… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon If you don’t have your own website then you may not even care about it. However if you do have a website you should make it match your brand that people recognize you by. Either your logo, or part of it, or maybe your photo. [...] Read more »

What is the proper advertising request etiquette

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I never thought about having advertisers on my blog as it is just my personal blog. However I have been approached on more than one occasion to advertise on my site. So I guess that means I should put together an advertising policy page for anyone who wants to advertise here with me will have clear understanding of my advertising policy. The thing that gets me is my most recent conversation with someone who wanted to advertise on my site. It started off normally with a request to advertise on my site: Hi there, I am interested in text advertising on your [...] Read more »

Text Enhance Adware now infecting WordPress through Tinymce

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If you have spent any time on the internet I am sure you have seen sites with underlined links in their content. Usually this is linking you to something they want you to see of another page to go to. However there are other types of links that when you put your mouse over them they pop-up with an advertisement. Sometimes the website wants them there and other times they don’t. Other times it is your machine that is infected with a virus of sorts that is causing this. One well known source for this is Text Enhance. What is [...] Read more »

Why any old image just won’t do…

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You just started blogging or have been doing it for a while and need images to make your posts stand out. What do you do? Do you simply search Google Images and grab whatever image fits your present need? Well you could do that, but then you might wind up with a letter in the mail that looks something like this: [ Click here to download a full copy of the letter (PDF) ] This letter (well one like it) was sent to one of my clients… Of course the first thing you need to do in this situation is [...] Read more »

How to upload an image in Word Press

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I have been asked many times by my clients “How do I upload an image in Word Press”? Instead of me telling everyone individually over and over again I thought why not post to my blog. So here is a very short and simple tutorial on how to upload an image to Word Press. It is assumed you are logged in and at the “Write Post” or “Write Page” screen and that you already have the title and body text written.  Once you have the cursor where you want to insert an image you scroll down the page to the [...] Read more »