$400 + in Holiday Gifts and Goodies – But you have to act fast!
It’s always fun to see companies get into the Holiday spirit… especially when they give great and usable stuff away!
The WishList team is doing just that for all their WishList Member customers.
Anyone who buys WishList Member before Dec. 31st, 2011 will get a whole bunch of extra gifts (valued at $400+) at no extra charge.
This gift package includes:
1) 1000+ Custom Drawn Icons
2) Custom Membership Site Graphics
3) Our Top 3 Kick-Butt Plugins
4) 3-Module Membership Site Basics Course
It’s an awesome package and people are loving it. And who doesn’t love getting what we call in the Deep South, “lagniappe”. (A lagniappe is a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase (such as a 13th doughnut when buying a dozen). This is some serious lagniappe!
…BUT…
This gift package is only available for those who purchase BEFORE December 31st, 2011 @ 11pm PST.
I run multiple membership sites for my clients and for myself and ALL of them are build using Wishlist Member.
We wish you a safe, happy, healthy and PROSPEROUS New Year!
Your Partner In Success,
Denise Griffitts
read moreHow to Password Protect Your WordPress Admin Folder
We are hearing a lot about hacking and I don’t for a moment think that is will run it’s course and go away, do you?
Let’s talk briefly about protecting your WordPress website/blog. One of the biggest causes of WordPress hacks is choosing weak passwords.
You can password protect your wp-admin folder using your cpanel, and at least that way you have 2 passwords that need to be broken in order to gain access to the wp-admin.
File Permissions
It is best to lock down the file permissions as much as you can. Allowing people or applications to have write access to your files can be quite dangerous.
Files
Set permission to 644
Set permission to 755
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All About Cookies – the Computer Kind
“What is a cookie and why do I need to know about them?” As a web developer this is a question that I hear from clients all the time. And if they don’t ask the question, I answer it anyway.
Cookies are a small text file composed of alphanumeric characters, which is created on your computer when your browser accesses a website that uses cookies. The name cookie derives from UNIX objects called magic cookies. These are tokens that are attached to a user or program and change depending on the areas entered by the user or program.
There are two types of computer cookies: temporary and permanent. Temporary cookies, also called session cookies, are stored temporarily in your browser’s memory and are deleted as soon as you end the session by closing the browser. Permanent cookies, also called persistent cookies, are stored permanently on your computer’s hard drive and, if deleted, will be recreated the next time you visit the sites that placed them there.
Both temporary and permanent computer cookies can be used for many helpful purposes. Automatic registration logon, preserving website preferences, and saving items to a shopping cart are all examples of cookies put to good use. But permanent cookies also resulted in unanticipated uses, such as Web profiling.
A terrific resource for all things cookies is All About Cookies.org which is a free resource designed to help marketers and consumers understand cookies and the issues surround the use of cookies.
If you want to create cookies on your website there are many javascript sources that you can use. Just Google the words “Javascript Cookie Script” .
Here are several resources for you:
TechPatterns.com – Javascript Cookie Script
The JavaScript Source - Cookie Scripts
read moreMake Money Helping Local Businesses Start a Blog
I read a timely and brilliant article this morning on Rosalind Gardner’s Net Profits Today blog and wanted to share it with all of you who are skilled in WordPress and are looking for additional sources of business.
by Rosalind Gardner
You already know how to install a blog.
You also know which plugins to use to make it functional and how to make it look great with a pretty professional WordPress theme.
You know which pages are must-haves on any blog.
AND you understand the benefits of blogging in terms of getting free traffic, as well as how to use PPC at the local level to reduce advertising costs.
So, why not make money using your knowledge to help businesses in your local area either set up a new blog, or improve an existing web site?
Surely, you’ve come across a few local businesses that could benefit greatly from your blogging knowledge.
I run across awful local business sites all the time.
For example, most of the small resort, motel and private RV park/campground sites I find when doing travel research are just downright ugly. Most of them look like they were designed in 1997 and haven’t been updated since.
Read the rest of the article here: Rosalind Gardner’s Net Profits Today
If you want to brush up on your WordPress skills and be able to increase the professional fees you command take a look at these two programs.
Go For Your Dream WordPress Training. The next live WordPress Website Workshop begins next month, October, 2010. Be sure to register for the case study replays from their last workshop and get on the list to be notified when the new course starts. I work closely with Ben Cope and Kimberly Bohannan on many projects and highly recommendtheir WordPress trainings!
WordPress Mastery. They offer 3 free brief, but powerful videos that will let you find out more about the complete, step-by-step, multi-video training series. This course is perfect for people who are fairly new to WordPress and need to get the basics down pat.
My web development company, Your Office On The Web builds WordPress sites for clients each month. In fact, we may have as many as 8 -11 in production at any given time. Once you are confident that your WordPress skills can be considered “expert” I would love to see your portfolio!
read moreFree Resource – Picnik Online Image Editing
Weekly Recommended Resources
Do you need to clean up or manipulate images quickly and easily? Unless you are a whiz in Photoshop or Picasa, reworking images may be something that you don’t even try to tackle on your own.
Picnik is an online image editing tool that provides a variety of textual and visual embellishments such as themed graphics to personalize photographs and even provide scrapbook-like polishes.
You can crop and resize images, sharpen or soften lines, adjust layers for optimal contrast and saturation and implement other everyday polishes.
Users can also learn tips, tricks and discuss finished photos in the forums, find information about tools and features in the topically-organized in-depth FAQ section and even give feedback to the site developers using the contact sub-portal in the Help menu.
While this is a free resource, I do recommend that you go with Picnik Premium. For as little as $2 a month you get more features and content:
- More effects
- Beauty tools
- More collages
- More fonts and stickers
- Advanced editing tools
- Unlimited history
- Unlimited connections
- Priority feedback
- Ad-free and full screen
- Layering and more…
Be sure to come back here and share some of your new images!
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