Took my daughters to see the new Shrek movie today, which was entertaining BTW, but before the movie began we had to sit through several commercials. One of the ads was the new Dawn dish-washing commercial that shows how Dawn soap is helping clean the oil off animals affected by the Gulf oil spill. To…
Monthly Archives: May 2010
GD Press Tools WordPress Plugin
If you enjoy looking and working with the nuts and bolts of WordPress then the GD Press Tools plugin is for you. From the developers “Dev4Press” website: GD Press Tools is a collection of various administration, SEO, database, cron job scheduling, maintenance, expanding WordPress panels and security related tools that can help with everyday blog…
Readability scores/tests ~ Flesch reading ease score & Flesch-Kincaid grade level score
Another helpful tip from Website magazine. I’ve been using Microsoft Word for a long time now and have never been aware of these helpful tools that are built right in. MS Word has two helpful scores for checking the readability of a document. Note, other popular word processing software has these tools too. The Flesch…
Coupon Websites ~ do we really need any more of them?
Everyone loves coupons. Whenever I shop online and I find a coupon field during checkout I’ll always stop the checkout process and find a free coupon to use. On my ecommerce site I too have a coupon field. It amazes me when orders come through without the customer using a coupon. I don’t mind it……
WordPress “Add an image” image/photo size & resizing
If you’re frequently adding images to your blog posts in WordPress but get tired of constantly messing with the photo size or resizing the photo or image, there’s an easy fix. This method is only helpful when you want the image to always be the same width as your posts. If you’re like me I…
UPS WorldShip ~ fast, convenient shipping label software
With my ecommerce site I typically ship out anywhere from 10, 20 or 30+ packages a week. Up until two months ago I use to have a painfully slow and tedious process when it came time to print off shipping labels. I was using a combination of UPS’s online shipping label software (UPS Internet Shipping)…
Blogging and Social Networking… Consistency is the Key
If you’re trying to grow a website or blog, there is one word that says it all for you… consistency. Most bloggers and website owners who blog or get involved in social networking start out excited and thrilled at their new endeavor. Often times after a week or month, they start losing their drive because…
Allowing affiliates to bid on PPC trademark terms… good or bad idea?
Allowing affiliates to bid on PPC trademark terms… is it a good or bad idea? This is a question that’s been in my head over and over again since I started an affiliate program 5 years ago for my ecommerce site. Up until this morning I was letting my affiliates bid on my trademark terms….
How to add tag support to a WordPress theme
The current theme that is running this “Erratic” blog did not come with support for tags. I wanted to add tag support to each blog post since I love using tags and tag clouds. Thankfully this is a simple thing to add. Get to the editor section for your theme and select the single post…
Google Product Extensions (Adwords & Merchant Center Settings)
Thanks to Website magazine I learned something very valuable today. I really don’t know how I’ve missed it in the past since it was right in front of me, but somehow I did. BTW, if your business has to do with anything on the internet, Website magazine is a must have in my opinion. Every…
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