Moving? Don’t use Colonial Van Lines
Moving is a stressful time. Whether it's in town, or across the country, choosing a company to move your stuff is extremely difficult. Are they going to arrive on time? Are they going to deliver when they said they would? Is this a good price? Are they estimating the...
How To Put Social Media Icons On Your Website
So, you’ve found the perfect social media icons and you want to put them in your theme – maybe in a widget section. Here’s are step-by-step directions on how to do that. (I’m focusing on WordPress here, but the basic principles would be the same with any blogging...
Review: PhotoSpin Stock Images
I was recently offered the opportunity to review the stock image site, PhotoSpin.com. Since I am constantly in need of well-priced, quality stock images, I gladly accepted! The images are priced at $2 for a small (864px) image, up to $20 for a large (3600px) image....
Promote Your Online Business With Creative Printed Materials
I know I'm not alone when I say that face-to-face networking isn't my favorite thing to do. The word 'networking' makes my skin crawl a little. But it's important. Face-to-face interactions still mean an awful lot, convey a sense of trust and familiarity that emails...
Pinterest Social Media Icon for Your Blog
Have you discovered Pinterest yet? It's the best way I've found to keep track of, organize and share all the stuff you find on the web. I've been using it for a while and was looking around for an icon to put on one of my sites to link to my Pinterest boards, and I...
Great source for stock photography
There are many sources for stock photography and vector images, and I'm always up for trying a new one. Recently Fotolia contacted me, and asked if I wanted to try out their service and pass along my thoughts to you*. I've used Fotolia for over a week now, and I must...
Disable the Admin bar in WordPress
I hate the new Admin bar in WordPress, and while it's easy to disable in your User profile, if you have a site with many subscribers and you don't want them to be annoyed by the bar, or for some design reason you don't want it to show, here is the code to place in...
Website Failure: How To Avoid It And When To Accept It
Posting has been a little thin around here lately, to say the least, as I'm continuing to find it difficult to keep all the balls in the air. I started several sites this summer and in hindsight, while I learned something from them, I should have just skipped it and...
Add Facebook Like Button To Your WordPress Site Without a Plugin
No need for a plugin to put the Facebook Like button on your posts. Paste this where you want the button in your single.php or post.php depending on the theme you're using:
How to replace Read More with an image
Sometimes it's preferable to have a button instead of text to allow the reader to jump to the rest of a post. Following is the code to replace the text with an image: <?php the_content('<img src= "' . get_bloginfo('template_directory')....