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Review: Professional Blogging for Dummies

product A review by Virginia DeBolt of Professional Blogging For Dummies (rating: 5 stars) Professional Blogging for Dummies is by Susan J. Getgood. It’s from Wiley Publishing (2010). In all the years that I have been reading and reviewing computer/tech books, I’ve never read one the of the books in Wylie’s For Dummies series. I [...]

A look at Google Analytics

This is the first in a series about analytics tools. In following weeks I’ll also examine Woopra and Post Rank Analytics. We’ll start off this look into the hows and whys of analytics with a look at Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free tracking tool that will help you understand how many people visit [...]

The value of an affiliate link

In Affiliate Marketing Undervalues the Link at A VC, the question is raised as to the value of an affiliate link. I’ve been an Amazon affiliate since the beginning of time on this blog, and have shared these same thoughts expressed in this post many times. The post is about the book The Happiness Project [...]

Why Can’t Twitter Be More Like Facebook or Linked In?

It can. Are you looking for a way for Twitter to locate mutual friends or people who know people you know? I love this feature on Facebook and often find BlogHers or long-lost classmates based on the application’s suggestions as to people I may know because they know people I know. People who know people. [...]

Review: Fancy Form Design

product A review by Web Teacher of (rating: 5 stars) Fancy Form Design by Jina Bolton, Tim Connell and Derek Featherstone is from Sitepoint Book (2009). This is really an excellent little book. It gives you tips on planning and designing a form that is both attractive and usable. It provides information on structuring the [...]

A trial of the Zemanta Firefox add-on

I gave the Zemanta add-on for Firefox a trial run in WordPress. Download it from Mozilla. Here’s the background. Zemanta promises to make blogging easier for you by finding you relevant images, links or tags as you type a blog post or an email. (It works in Firefox and Gmail.) That sounds appealing, especially for [...]

Codeburner Add-on for Firefox

You now have access to all the Sitepoint References for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript available in Firefox as an add-on. You can download the  Codeburner add-on free from Sitepoint. The references provide syntax information, browser compatibility charts and sample code for HTML and CSS. The new add-on was just released. For a limited time, you [...]

Summary of eHow Articles for January

A list of the thrilling and educational how to articles I wrote at eHow this month. And tulips! More . . .

Red Bubble: Share or Sell Your Illustrations or Photos

I posted at BlogHer today about Red Bubble. This is a site similar to Photrade–which I wrote about here in Photrade’s all  new–a second look. Red Bubble is similar to a site called Zazzle, which I’ve not looked at yet, but will sometime soon.

CSS Super Scrub

CSS Super Scrub says it will significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names. I gave it a try with the style sheet for this site. With just the option Indent CSS selected, it saved 4.7% on the Web [...]