Put a Face to Your Comments

A Gravatar is a photo, image or logo which appears beside your name when you make a comment on your own blog, another blog or a web forum (like an online profile). If you don’t have one, you just see the little grey mystery face appear beside your comment.

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Add Twitter to Your Website

The second part of the twitter challenge for Wordpress users wanting to get the most from their website.

1. Add a follow me on Twitter button to your website OR…
2. Add your Twitter Feed to your website

You will find instructions at http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2009/04/blog-weekly-twitter-daily/.

Once you have found a Twitter button you like, go to Add New Post, upload the image to your website, copy the Link URL (see screenshot below).

Add the twitter button to a text widget in your sidebar (Appearance/Widgets) using the following format:

<a href=”paste the address of your twitter profile page here”><img src=”paste the link url here”></a>

New Studio Press Themes Even Better

Revolution has rebranded to Studio Press and their Wordpress themes are better than ever.

Chrome Theme

I have just finished designing a new website for the New Zealand Rose Society using their Chrome theme. See www.nzroses.org.nz

The New Zealand Rose Society websites features:

• A Blog with categories for growing roses, rose events, rose of the month and Gardens to Visit
• An extensive photo gallery using the Next Generation Gallery Plugin
• Online membership using the Wordpress E-Commerce Plugin
• An events calendar using the Events Calendar Plugin
• Member only downloads section using the Downloads Plugin
• Multiple users who can login to change content on their own page or write new blog posts

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Start Twittering

This is the first Weekly Wordpress Challenge I am issuing to people who are committed to using Wordpress and blogging to improve their business.

The Twitter Challenge – Part 1

1. Create a Twitter account at www.twitter.com
2. Write a ‘tweet’ every day this week.

See http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2009/04/blog-weekly-twitter-daily/ for details…

Att: Kiwis – Change Website Time

This post is for all my kiwi (New Zealand) subscribers.

When daylight savings ended last week, you all put your clocks back but your website will stay on summertime unless you manually change it.

Change Your the Time on Your Wordpress Website

1. Login to your website administration.
2. Go to Settings
3. On the General page, half way down is a box called Timezone.
4. Select UTC + 12 from the drop-down list.
5. Click on Save Settings button at the bottom of the page.

Why Should I Bother?
If you’re sending email newsletters when you write posts, your newsletters will send an hour later than you want them to send. Posts will display having been written at a different time and future dated posts will send at the wrong time. Some wordpress layouts display the current date and time on the homepage so it just wouldn’t be a good look.

Let me know if you have any problems changing the time.
Cheers
Jo

Blog Weekly – Twitter Daily

Have you started noticing a little bird popping up all over the internet?

Twitter is a website where you post quick and timely updates about what you’re doing. Publish well researched, interesting posts on your blog every week or fortnight but post (or text) short snippets of info on Twitter on a daily basis. Think of it as micro-blogging! Once your customers are following you on Twitter, you can let them know exactly what’s new and exciting, ask for feedback, get ideas – all in realtime.

See my latest 5 tweets on the sidebar to the right of this post.

Why Should I Twitter?
Twitter profiles are starting to appear very high in Google Searches. A New York Times article describes Twitter as “…a business tool, a teenage time-killer, a research assistant, a news source — whatever”. Business are just starting to get’ tweeting’. Read why in this great article about Understanding the Impact of Twitter…

What Should I Twitter about?

• New product updates
• Ask customers (’followers’) for feedback
• Links to interesting articles/blog posts (Use tinyurl for links)
• One sentence summary of your blog posts with link (Use tinyurl)
• Dates, speakers etc for events

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Easy Options for Resizing Photos

If you are having trouble making your photos small enough to upload to your website or blog, there are 3 easy options you can try… [Read more]