In: Blogging Help, WordPress CMS Help

WordPress 2.6 User Tips

Nine ways to use the new WordPress 2.6 for greater productivity and successful content creation…

by Scott Frangos

A new floating post box that grabs media you want to blog about, post versioning, avatar options and more… Is it time to upgrade, BlogMasters?  Sure — WP 2.6 offers some great new features for work teams. WordPress 2.6 was released yesterday, so let’s take a look at a some ways… Continue reading

In: Learning CSS, OS WebMaster

CSS Concepts & Design Principles in the Zen Garden

by Scott Frangos

Learning about CSS at WebHelperMagazine.com

In this Lesson we’ll look at the CSS structure of an excellent site design in the CSS Zen Garden. You can follow along using the Web Developer Firefox extension which will help us reveal the hidden structure of the design.

In: Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Playing the Pipes

by Scott Frangos, Managing Editor

Have you taken a look at what Yahoo Pipes can do recently? People are playing the pipes for just about everything these days, including SEO and Social Marketing. If you’ve never dealt with them before, the roughtly one-year-old Yahoo Pipes are:

…a composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

Sounds interesting. Basically Pipes are combining and sorting RSS feeds… Continue reading

In: OS WebMaster, Online Business, WordPress CMS Help, WordPress CMS Reviews

WordPress WOW: Eight Top Sites using WordPress as a CMS…

by Scott Frangos

Where’s the Blog? Answer: maybe nowhere on your WordPress website. As a WordPress developer and consultant, it never fails to amaze me how creative and wide ranging the websites developed on the WordPress platform have become. And, how companies are sometimes using it to power their websites without even using the blogging function.

We’re going to look at some companies doing just that… 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

AJAX & Javascript Galleries, Slideshows and Effects Redux

One of the most pleasing effects that AJAX offers web designers i the ability to create slideshows, lightboxes, galleries and image transition effects. Here is a collection of favorite effects from generous programmers and designers — those gifted with left-brain and right-brain talent — for free as reviewed by Max Keisler.

by Max Keisler

{smartads}I was looking through some of my older posts tonight and realized my last post… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Social Media-Marketing

7 Tips for Getting Your Images Indexed

By Karen Scharf

Image search is the fastest growing search on the web. And, since Google, Ask and Yahoo are now including images in their search results pages, web marketers have been presented with a whole new opportunity. So it only makes sense that website owners follow a few extra steps to ensure their images are optimized for search:

“If copyright issues are important to you, you might wish to watermark… Continue reading