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2008 

I wrote this in a comment, but figured it was important enough, I'd include it in its own post With some web host services, you are told to wait until the name "resolves" before "enabling" it ...... Here on Active Rain, my outside blog custom domain name did not "resolve" UNTIL I "enabled" it. So...
06/30/2008
We diligently repost all listings and all rental vacancies to Craigslist every week, on Friday.  The listings were posted this last Friday, as always, and yesterday I saw this response in my email are you avaiable to show me this property tomorrow? When is this place available to move in? i'm fle...
06/29/2008
Anybody else (besides Jonathon Washburn, of course http://www.jonwashburn.com/ ) got  their DNS nameservers mapped yet to an Active Rain 'Outside Blog" ... ??? Using a domain name I had registered at GoDaddy, I mapped it to the new Active Rain Outside Blog nameservers It's been 48 hours, and so f...
06/29/2008
Here's one of those little things that I didn't notice until recently.  When you compost a blog post, would you like the size of the post-editor-box to be a bit larger? I often do, especially if I have some images or videos to insert. I just realized, that in WordPress at any rate, the box can ea...
06/28/2008
Welcome to The Cheater's Quickie Guide to updating WordPress (Had you wondering there for a minute, huh?)   Over the course of a few years working with technology stuff, I have learned the value of healthy restraint when confronted with the urge to fix something that ain't broke. Nonetheless I wa...
06/26/2008
Just in case you missed it..... Active Rain launched their "Outside Blog" beta yesterday. Here are detailed instructions on setting up an Active Rain "Outside Blog"  from Brad Andersohn http://activerain.com/blogsview/535622/ActiveRain-Launches-Outside-Blogs More from the source: http://activerai...
06/26/2008
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Thinking about a different way to explain the term "The Long Tail" .... How's this... suppose I plan to take a weekend trip, and I want to buy a new tote bag to carry my stuff.  I'm going to buy the tote bag online. I might search on Google for the words "Tote Bag" .... that's a vertical search  ...
06/25/2008
A WordPress "Theme" is a pre-designed "skin" that you apply to your WordPress blog to change its appearance without changing the content.  You can be Blue Meanie one day and Cutline the next day. You can also further customize any theme by making your own edits to the theme files.   You may want ...
06/24/2008
Over on Rilla's* blog, a commenter asked about Style Sheets, and I thought I would repeat it here: A Cascading Style Sheet is a set of instuctions for a web page.  The "CSS" tells the web page to "make the background blue" or "make the header font size 24 points". The CSS code can be written as a...
06/22/2008
Now that I have an Active Rain virtual helper, I can figure out all kinds of stuff without too much disruption (disruption to blogging, that is, other stuff I need to do is on hold.  :-)  ) Want to check out someone's Active Rain CSS style sheet? Click View -> View Source (or Page Source in Firef...
06/22/2008
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