Website builder software blues now have an antidote! (Also works for the blues you can get when dealing with some web designers). First of all, let’s get all the boring, nasty, horrid, stressful, blood pressure increasing, confusing, complicated, and expensive web design stuff out of the way first because with this antidote you won’t have [...]
We have all heard of Flickr and similar photo sharing services. Some of us may have tried some of the more professional applications. Last year I needed to find a top class way of sharing my photos. I looked at many options, including applications which I could host on my own server, special software and [...]
Recently I had cause to contact my website builder software developer for support. For some reason I was getting unusual additional stuff listed at the top of the search results page on my Personal Development Magic website. Here is a post I wrote about it on the forum. Someone on the forum suggested that I [...]
Way back in 1999 – 2000 I built my first websites. I used Microsoft FrontPage which in fairness, was very good for its time, making the whole process much easier. One of my early websites was Find-A-Person. Here is a link to some archived copies of the site, categorized by date. (Tip: The Internet Archive [...]
Note: This is an older post from another blog which I have retained because of its usefulness to people experiencing a similar issue. Originally published August 23rd 2009. Yesterday I was on a roll. Posting to my blog, which runs the latest edition of WordPress. Uploading photos for my posts. Since then I have changed [...]
Note: this article was formerly published at an earlier date on an old blog (same blog software theme). Images reflect old information. Useful content has been retained. While I was waiting for some help on how to adjust my blog code to fix an inactive RSS button, I decided to try a workaround fix myself. [...]
Today I am enjoying using XSitePro, my website builder software, to continue developing my Black Shaman website. XSitePro makes stuff so easy and over the years while using the program I have often found myself thinking that it is just like WordPress. Easy to use, slick and full of key functionality. Another thing I like [...]
In my article about possible mandatory Australian government Internet filtering, I mentioned sending a fax message to my local politician. You can view the article concerned here. In my fax I used the following link to a collection of blog posts which are hosted on my blog: http://click-here-now-for.info/InternetCensor The link is an easy way of [...]
Note: the website mentioned in this post has now been incorporated into another site. Recently I have reorganized my blogging and in the process decided on a single blog complete with a new look which matched my new letterhead and business card designs. Today, I translated the new look onto the Personal Development Magic website: [...]
This post is primarily intended for webmasters, Internet marketers and anyone interested in a simple way to set up link redirects / link cloaking. People with knowledge of setting up a link redirect will be aware of how fiddly and time consuming they can be. Time is so precious and I am constantly on the [...]
Do you have long URLs (web addresses) to share with people? Do you have to click on long URLs; or even worse, have to copy and paste them for some reason? If so, then you will know of some of the frustrations associated with long URLs. People involved with Internet marketing (IM) will be acutely [...]
Within the last week I have written two other posts with a graphics theme. One was about a great source of ClipArt and the other about a free image resizing program. Good quality images can make all the difference to a website. I always ensure that I put a lot of effort into picking the [...]
Following on from my blog post two days ago on Clipart: Great source of Clipart Here are some details about a very nifty free photo resizing program which will help you to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes. I have been using this program – PIXresizer – [...]
I love using images in my websites and blogs. Besides being a very logical person, I have a really strong creative side, however my drawing age is stuck at around age 6 and a half. Ghastly! And no, I have none for sale! I am a very visual person and appreciate subtle variations and atmosphere. [...]
The mobile web. What is it? Many people are still getting to grips with the internet and all it has to offer. The mobile web is part of that, but one which a lot of people are unaware of. Simply speaking the mobile web refers to accessing the internet using cell phones, mobile phones and [...]
What is a niche? A niche, in marketing terms, is a narrow highly focused target market. Niches can be sub divided further in some cases too. Why are niches important? Marketing to niches is a smarter way to make money online than being a “generalist” because there are many ways in which you can more [...]
“Buy Australian”. I tend to come across this phrase less and less these days, certainly much less than 25 years ago. Today we live in an increasingly globalized marketplace and the Internet makes it especially easy to order products and services from overseas. Groceries are one product area which is largely best ordered from within [...]
Introduction QR* Codes (* derived from “Quick Response) are special matrix codes designed to be decoded at high speed by devices such as mobile/cellular phones. QR codes can contain a variety of important information such as addresses, URLs & phone numbers – which means that anyone with a camera phone (complete with QR-decoding software) can [...]
Yes that’s right, Google has quietly produced a very useful tool for online business promotion. As far as I know it was released in August 2008, and has a .com.au Australian domain extension. The site description (viewed in the source code) comments as follows: “Learn how to connect with your customers online through search marketing. [...]
Earlier today, one of my clients asked me if I knew much about Google Adwords and wanted to find out more about the subject. Google Adwords, and other Pay Per Click advertising (PPC) methods are a very important aspect of Internet marketing. With anything in life, I like to focus on studying top-quality material written [...]
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