Website Wisdom
Free Halloween Digital Resources
With Halloween fast approaching, the hunt is on for free digital resources to spruce up a website, send e-cards, or even to create a poster for an upcoming Halloween party! Instead of searching the internet, I have composed a list of free Halloween digital resources for your one-stop-shop Halloween needs.
As always, be sure to read each website’s “Terms of Use” policy when downloading any of these resources. 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
How to Generate Income With Google Adsense
There are a lot of ways to monetize your website, but one of the most dominating forms of internet advertising for any blog is Google Adsense. Starting June 18, 2003, Adsense has grown over the past 8 years into a multi-billion dollar industry. In the first quarter of 2011, Google earned US$2.34 billion through its adsense program alone. All of that information aside, there are some considerations you have to take into consideration if you want see some real income from Google Adsense. Continue reading
10 Tips to Designing a Great Website
Maybe you are starting out with a new website, or are thinking it is time for a website redesign, and upon looking around you see that there are tons of websites out there, with tons of different strategies in place. So how do you know whether or not you have built your website correctly, or are going to build it correctly? Believe it or not, there are some sure-fire design tips that will give you a step ahead of the other websites that are unaware of these guidelines. If you decide to follow these you may not achieve Internet success, but these tips will surely help you start out on the right foot. Continue reading
What’s New in Joomla! 1.7 And Should You Upgrade
Web designers everywhere are still getting used to all the new added features of Joomla! 1.6, but now Joomla! 1.7 is here. Web designers who enjoyed all of the brilliant new changes like Access Control lists and multiple themes to a single template may be expecting the same amount of updates to the 1.7 version. They will be sorely disappointed. Joomla! 1.7 has a few changes but nowhere near the amount as the previous update.
It took 3 years to produce Joomla! 1.6 after 1.5, but only 6 months to come out with 1.7 which is supposed to be the beginning of a 6 month revision to revision cycle. The down side is less new features, but that boon is far outweighed by the ability to keep on top of security through more frequent updating. Continue reading
