Duncan
Adding an Artisteer Styled Template Button to the Content of Your Joomla Website
Artisteer is a very easy to use and professional template creator. The software can create custom designed templates/themes/layouts for popular CMS systems like Joomla! and Wordress. Within the template creator, you can customize your buttons that will used to display on forms, widgets, and the “Read More” link in Joomla!
This tutorial shows how a button can be added within a post/page/article wherever you want it to be. The only choices that need to be made, is whether the Artisteer template was created in version 3.x or 2.x, and whether the link opens in the same window or in a new one. Continue reading
The Dark Side of Social Media in 2011
With Social Media rising in heaps and bounds, everybody should be excited with all of the changes that are happening, right? Not entirely so. Unfortunately, with the increase in popularity and the technology available, there are a lot of tricks being used in social media to dilute the personal experience.
Social Media was designed to provide users with an interactive online experience, allowing friends and family to connect with one another whenever they wish, making the world just that much smaller. The thing is, that with the popularity of social media comes some negative setbacks that are exploiting the experience, primarily to gain popularity for commercial brands, SEO companies, and internet marketers. Rather than use social media the way it was originally intended, they ploy these tactics to drive up traffic, increase popularity, and rank better in search engines.
Now you might ask yourself: What is wrong with that? The answer I would give if consulted on the subject is: Even though these tactics are effective, they are taking the personal connection out of social media. Below I’m going to share with you some “dark side” tactics used in building audiences and you can decide for yourself whether you would use these or not. Continue reading
How to Grow an Organic Twitter Following
Growing an organic Twitter following takes time and work, but the rewards outweigh the cost. Twitter was built to allow people to engage and share information in 140 characters or less. If you are looking to build a following with automation software or just to look popular, then this is not the article you are looking for.
The accounts I manage are growing at a steady pace with these tips and tools I share today. With some luck and the right execution, your Twitter account will grow nicely, full of real and interesting people that you can network with and promote your knowledge, product or service. Continue reading
The Top 4 Twitter Directories in 2011
Getting listed in Twitter Directories is the first way to gain followers. By adding your Twitter profile to the right categories within these directories, you can increase your exposure to other Twitter enthusiasts and hopefully increase your following as well.
When Twitter came out in 2006, and then became popular in 2007, there were many directories created. However, over the last several years, many of the directories have disappeared, with only the largest of the directories remaining still popular today. What will make this article worth reading is the single fact that this is a list of current popular directories. Continue reading
How to Fix a Blank WordPress 3.x Dashboard
If you are one of those people just like I was yesterday, then you are staring at a blank WordPress screen, where your dashboard should be. That was me yesterday. There were a lot of tutorials out there about fixing 2.x installations, but they involved manipulating a plug-in database table, which did not exist in my WordPress 3.x installation.
So, here is the picture. I can’t get into my backend dashboard. However, I can see the frontend of my website. With nothing but my 10 years experience in computers, and my wits, I tackled the problem and won… Continue reading
