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Creating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Cascading style sheets (CSS) simplify the code used to style web pages. This is especially useful if a website consists of many pages. For example, WordPress uses CSS. Anyone can edit the CSS in the style.css document to make changes across all of the pages, even if there are hundreds or thousands. This is much better than having to open each web page file to make the changes. Prerequisites for … Read entire article »
Filed under: CSS
How to Use Twitter Hashtags
“Use Twitter to promote your website!” That’s the wise advice that so many career-bloggers like to share, but they never really tell you how. “Use hashtags!” “People don’t maximize Twitter’s benefit because they don’t know how to use hashtags.” “Hashtags, hashtags, hashtags!” “Success is met by mastering the art of the hashtag.” How zen. Okay, great advice, but just what does this all mean? What the heck is a hashtag and what does it do? Twitter Hashtags … Read entire article »
Filed under: Featured, Social Media
WordPress: How to Wrap Two Paragraphs around One Image
There is a seriously annoying issue with WordPress: it is almost impossible to wrap two paragraphs around one image. Sure, the first paragraph wraps, but if it is shorter than than the height of the image, there is a horrible blank space until the second paragraph begins below the image. Preferably, both paragraphs would wrap around the image. Note that I said “almost impossible.” There is a fix, and it … Read entire article »
4 Must-Have WordPress Plugins
WordPress is easy-to-use publishing software most commonly used for blogging. Many tech-savvy programmers have developed incredibly useful plugins that make WordPress a powerful publishing platform. Here are five plugins that are incredibly useful for making WordPress easy for you to use, and useful for your readers. Akismet Akismet is a no-brainer for WordPress users. Spammers love to leave useless comments and link lists on blogs, and Akismet stops them dead in their tracks. … Read entire article »
Filed under: WordPress
How to Stop Hackers with WordPress
Many webmasters have installed WordPress blogging software on their websites for easy design and updating. Not all WordPress-powered websites are blogs, but WordPress’ incredibly easy customization makes it an excellent choice for almost any website, especially if multiple users write for the site. Another very important benefit that WordPress provides is easy upgrading. Upgrading is absolutely necessary for keeping any website secure. There have been incidents of WordPress getting hacked, but … Read entire article »
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Promoting Your Website with Social Media Buttons
Social media buttons just might be what you need to give your blog that extra boost in visitors. There are a plethora of options available, from which bookmarking and social networking buttons to offer, to the types of icons and buttons to use. It is probably best to minimize the use of these buttons to avoid cluttering your blog. Most blogs use smaller icons at the bottom of each post, but some find … Read entire article »
Filed under: Popular, Social Media
