In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing, WordPress CMS Help

Launching Your WordPress 2.5 Upgrade

WordPress 2.5 - learn how to upgradeby Scott Frangos

It’s here — WordPress 2.5, which you know if you pay attention to the notices in your admin. area. Should you upgrade now? Yes… if you want to enjoy a reorganized and streamlined new administration interface. No… if you want assurances that all of your plugins will… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing

Promoting Your Business On Facebook Properly

By Simon Dance

Of course the colossal media attention that Facebook has received - and it’s absurd valuations - coupled with the increasing number of member has certainly been a pull for all sorts of businesses to harness the platform, but the question is? How are they? And how are you - and your business - harnessing Facebook pages?

Adding ‘value’ or ‘usefulness’ to your page is essential in order… Continue reading

In: AJAX Help, OS WebMaster, Web Help

Working with CSS, DHTML and JavaScript

XHTML. DHTML. CSS. JavaScript. AJAX. A lot of acronyms for Open Source WebMasters to juggle. Here, you can learn about how CSS, DHTML & JavaScript — major components of and compliments to AJAX — work together in useful ways, see some examples, and try some exercises on your own… courtesy of Google Code for Educators. It’s not for brand new WebMasters

In: Blogging Help, Copy Writing, Copywriting Matters, Web Help

Copywriting Secrets of the Pro’s - Part 1

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This is one article in a series on how to write. Blogging. Website copy. eCommerce sales copy. Journalism. Even the pro’s keep themselves up to speed with the latest techniques for writing blogs and web copy. The art of writing is perhaps even more important today than it was when you wrote with a

In: AJAX Help, Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Social Media-Marketing, WordPress CMS Help

AJAX for WordPress, Expression Engine, & Moveable Type

We’ve got a great line-up of AJAX goodies (Santa couldn’t do better) for your blogs — but first, what exactly is AJAX? AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XTML, and represents a handful of technologies that together are behind a lot of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. Another way to say it is that AJAX is a set of scripting languages used to create browser-based applications that behave more… Continue reading

In: Photoshop Help, Photoshop for the Web, Web Graphics Help

Lesson 2 - Browser Template & Nav. Bar

Art for Web Icon

Premise for Photoshop Tutorial Series: You are a web designer at a small agency, and a client has called to request that you prepare a mock-up for a new home page for a company that sells gifts in Victoria B.C. - Canada. This Tutorial series was perfected and used in College Web Master classes by Author/Instructor Scott Frangos. Now… Continue reading