Barbara DeMarco-Barrett of Writer's Digest says, The time is nigh: If you don't have a presence on the Web, you're going to get left behind. Here's why your website can be the key to your writing career, and how to do a site right. She quotes Bradley Charbonneau, If you hire someone to do your [...]
I'm using Wink for my Tutorials and loving it.
Due to the increase in complaints, effective February 10, 2007, we will no longer allow forwards from our accounts to Hotmail / MSN accounts. Update: Yahoo too.
Synchronized Swimming Marin needed a simple yet attractive site to post some photos and event news.
For months, I've been wanting to use the Extended Profile data (from the userextra plugin, comments) to show a list of members on a post/page. I wanted more than just Firstname Lastname, Email, ICQ, etc. I wanted Address, City, Favorite Vegetable, whatever. After finding this code and then this bit of PHP to pull the [...]
Handy plugin (Mass Edit Pages) that lets you sort of the page order of your pages in your header, nav bar, or sidebar. You will need to change the code that displays the pages to this: sort_column=menu_order. So, e.g. [code][/code] Also terribly useful is My Category Order.
To change the order of your categories in your navigation (sidebar, top nav, etc.), you can either get into the code, or use this handy plugin (My Category Order). You'll need to edit the code that lists the categories to this: [code]wp_list_cats('sort_column=my_order&hide_empty=0′);[/code] While you're at it, you may as well get your pages in order, [...]
IAA West allows its members to view upcoming events, catch up with news, and the organization can update it all themselves.
2008 Update: new favorite: Stray Random Quotes There's a great plugin (Donkey Quote) that sets up a random text generator that's easy to edit in WordPress. Here's a quick video showing the basics of what it can do. Random Quotes Plugin
Here's a video created for BNI Embarcadero that walks through basic editing of a page. WordPress Tutorial Video: Simple Page Edit in WordPress
Here's a quick WordPress Tutorial to help you get your lost password and update some of your user information on your WordPress site. In this example, there are some extra fields used for more user info (e.g. address, phone, etc.). Lost Password, Update User Info Video Video will take some time to load.
Joel Deutsch's (www.joeldeutsch.net) publication credits range from early poems in "little" magazines like Big Boulevard and Open City to articles and essays in the San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, the Directors Guild magazine, and the online culture and travel journal World Hum (worldhum.com). Currently poetry editor of the online literary quarterly R-KV-R-Y [...]
Joel Ramirez needed a site for his performance center that was professional and strong, but he needed to be able to add staff bios, update event information, and basically have control of the content of his own site. Done.
I wanted to put this up here as an example of how CSS (formatting) on a global scale can help you editing your WordPress site with the tools you have in the editing/formatting screen. Watch the video below to see how I use the blockquote icon (the indent icon) and CSS formatting to make an [...]
Judyth Weaver had a website, but it was difficult to update -- so it wasn't updated. Now she has a site that's easy to update. Good for her classes, good for her students, good for her.
