I received an email today from cnnet-china.com. This scam has been around for a while, but it’s the first time I recall receiving one of these emails. For detailed info and to see what happens if you actually respond, see Christopher Woods’s excellent post: Chinese domain name prospecting scam – it’s back. The full text …
Read more »Anyone who’s been alive for at least a few years knows what it feels like to be sick and what it feels like to be healthy. Eventually this personal experience leads to an understanding of the signs of sickness and health. It even helps us learn how to tell when other people around us are …
Read more »In just one minute you can look at your website from the perspective of your ideal client and spot any “red flag” missed opportunities to connect with them. (I like to use the word client, but you may think of them as customers, students, members, fans, etc.) You should not spend more than one minute …
Read more »Free online photo editors One of the main tasks of preparing content for the web is photo editing, resizing and formatting. Photoshop is the industry standard software package used to edit graphics. However, there are simpler and less expensive options if all you need are basic tools to resize and crop images for your website or email …
Read more »Your website then and now. Years ago when the web was taking off and many businesses were creating their first websites there was a lot of talk about establishing a “web presence.” The idea was that businesses were gathering in this new space and you needed to be there, too. Many people thought of the internet …
Read more »One of the reasons clients give me for why they don’t have more content on their websites is that they simply do not know what to put there. They don’t think they have anything that would be of interest to anyone. They may have been discouraged by the droning of some “marketing experts” saying that …
Read more »Here are the links I reference when needing to move WordPress from one directory to another. Changing WordPress directory name http://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-directory-name-1 Changing WordPress location http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-move-wordpress-blog-to-new-domain-or-location/ Giving WordPress its own directory but keeping site in root directory A related task is placing all WordPress files in their own directory but having the site’s index page …
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