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How To Take A Full Screenshot

Feb 5, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: free stuff, website tips

Method 1:

I’m sure there are a bunch of ways to do this, but I kind of like this “method”.

I sometimes like taking shots without the toolbar showing at the corners of the screen. For this post, I presume a screenshot of a website is being taken.

1. Download a program for taking screen captures

I use the very handy MWSnap, created by Mirek Wojtowicz.

Nonags is a great one-stop site for free software downloads.

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WordPress Related Posts Plugin, Where to Place Code

Feb 1, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: plugins, wordpress

This is regarding where to place the < ?php wp23_related_posts(); ?> code. I downloaded WP 2.3 Related Posts plugin by Denis, PaoPao.

This plugin is only available for WordPress 2.3 beta 1.

I’m quite a PHP dummy myself, so I’m always fiddling around with this and that and going “oops” 101 times before finally getting anywhere.

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Free Hosting

Jan 30, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: free stuff, webhosting tips

For webhosting tips, scroll down to “PS” and “PPS” of this post.

I started my first website back in 1999 on a free host [the measly site is still online at www.dragonsinn.8m.com].

I’d suggest a paid hosting service for large-scale website ventures, but if you’re testing things out and etc, you might find a free hosting service useful to begin with.

Read their FAQs for extra info, here are the key features [as of this date (which are subject to change at their discretion, blah blah)] –

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Tumblr

Jan 25, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: free stuff

tumblr

Tumblelogs

Think of Blogger, Typepad etc. as “journals” — Tumblr would be a kind of “scrapbook” in comparison.

Tumblr is feature-packed and makes sharing anything online an easy process. The interface is refined and simple, nicely lacking in complicated navigation. Coding is not necessary.

The best part is that (like WordPress.org), Tumblr is free, and the people behind it plan on keeping it that way. In future, additional “advanced” features may be offered at a fee. But Tumblr strives to keep basic services available and 100% free.

You can even use a custom domain name.

You can see a tumblelog in action on Taylor Mcknight’s blog — for the moment, his site is powered by Tumblr.

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Temporary Hiatus

Jan 24, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: site rambles

I have 4 blogs, and I’ll be here soon =)

// jan 28: fiddling about with layouts.

// jan 29: ok, now i have to work on content.

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Hack Blogger Page Title

Jan 17, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: SEO tips, blogging tips, blogspot

This is one thing I like to tweak a LOT, with my blogs/websites — the Page Title.

The page title is exceedingly important. If you use weak keywords, your blog or website is not going to have a good placement in search engines. If you can’t be found easily in search engines, the effect is a loss of traffic (no matter how good your site’s content might be), which is really wasted effort on your part.

I’ll cover Page Title for Blogspot. The <title> and </title> tags are the same for a regular website as well.

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CSS Order, Remove Border From Image

Jan 16, 2008 Author: jess. | Filed under: CSS tips

CSS Order

CSS Link Elements

I like to apply CSS to my links. I realised things weren’t going correctly. I could get the colours right, but the links on the sidebar would still be underlined, when I already specified “text-decoration: none;” in the CSS properties.

Basically things weren’t going right. It was due to the A elements being wrongly ordered.

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