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HotKeys For WordPress

By Lynette · Comments (1)
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Crazy keyboard

Moving  your hand between the keyboard and mouse gets tiresome when you have to do it every few seconds. Thankfully when working with computer bound apps, there are plenty of hotkeys or keyboard shortcuts built in. The trouble with getting used to hotkeys – you begin to wish they were everywhere including web based apps. Which is why I really appreciate them when writing a blog because they help me focus. The longer I keep my hands on the keyboard busily typing away, the faster and more often I write. That’s a good thing when you’re working hard to push out posts regularly. Even if you aren’t the keyboard shortcut type by nature, give it a go just on WordPress and see if it improves your blogging speed. It might be clumsy at first trying to remember them but use them often enough, it becomes a habit you don’t hardly notice you’re using them. Here goes. Ctrl+A – Select All Ctrl+B – Bold Ctrl+C – Copy Ctrl+I – Italics Ctrl+U – Underline Ctrl+V – Paste Ctrl+Y – Redo Ctrl+Z – Undo Shift+End – Select text from cursor to end of line Shift+Home – Select text from cursor to beginning of line Shift+Left – Selects text

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3 Low Tech Ways To Deliver Audio Video Lessons Via Email

By Lynette · Comments (1)
Friday, January 27th, 2012
Private video settings on YouTube

Audios and Videos are powerful and wonderful ways to learn new things. That’s probably why a lot of learning and information products out there are based audio visual media. If you’re thinking of selling your own learning product online, one of the simplest methods is to use email as the delivery mechanism. The bad part about email – you’ve guessed already – you can’t really send people audios or videos. So how are you going to accomplish the last step of delivery? In this post, I’m going to cover three out of the many other methods for simplicity’s sake. Besides, I really don’t want to scare you off with a bunch of high tech stuff that could go over your head. The ‘Click To Watch/Listen’ Method If your customer is using a modern browser that supports HTML 5, audio and visual will simply play when people click on the audio/video URL in the email. There is no need for you to build a web page but this is huge but. You can’t bank on that. Lots of people use outdated software and you really want something that will work no matter what they use. So, your best bet is to set up web

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How Do You Get Comments To Nest In WordPress?

By Lynette · Comments (0)
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Threaded comments

That is the question I came across not too long ago on a forum. It might seem like such a trivial matter to those more experienced WordPress users but really it may not be as simple as you think. This is why. Sometimes terminology gets in the way so let’s be clear what nested or threaded comments are. These replies to a comment that appear indented under the original comment. It is a great to help you and readers follow a conversation. WordPress integrated this feature into the basic install beginning version 2.7 so it’s been a while and many themes should have caught up by now. However, I know for a fact working with a lot of different people and installs over the years, some of us still use antiquated versions (dangerous) or use themes that are antiquated (just as dangerous). Knowing this, there are three ways you can turn on nested comments in WordPress. Turn It On No, I’m not trying to be funny. There are many many times especially on a site that has been around and using WordPress for a long time. You may not realize the feature is there when you upgraded and simply never looked at

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What Do Your Business Cards Look Like? Here’s Ours

By Lynette · Comments (0)
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
my-business-cards

Design, graphics *sigh* what can I say? I’m just no good at them and when it comes to business cards… let’s not even go there. In the past I’ve always opted for the uninspired plain old boring white card with a dash or color in the text perhaps and some cheesy art that the card printer suggests. I’ve gone as far as adding a photo to my cards and that’s about it. Then… I found MOO! I’d spend hours just admiring those beautiful cards. Take a look at these. Aren’t they gorgeous? Question is, can I the geek and just about anyone who is design challenged make such lovely creations? You see, one of my problems with business cards is, I do so many things within technology. How can I pack all that in a card? Seriously, it hurts when I have to tell people “I make websites” because what I do is way, way beyond that. I decided to try. There’s something about MOO that gives birth to inspiration. The grand idea – use word clouds. I headed over to Tagxedo. You can use Wordle too but I like Tagxedo better because you can make shapes out of your words.

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How The iPad Replaces PowerPoint (and does a great job too)

By Lynette · Comments (3)
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Air Sketch

After a long day this week, I decided to tear myself away from the desk but alas, there was preparation for our tech training class to be done. So, I pulled out the iPad, got cozy on the bed and fired up two apps. The Tools One of them – believe it or not – is an app I bought for my daughter. It’s called Drawing Pad. She absolutely adores it and despite my challenge with drawing and graphics I love doodling on it too. The other is AirSketch. This one is a work tool. AirSketch is essentially a whiteboard type application but it has a neat feature that allows you to broadcast your whiteboard locally so anyone in your office can just pull up a web browser, type in the IP address for the app and voila! Everything you draw or write shows up on their browser. It is so very cool. The How How can these two apps replace PowerPoint? Remember, I said I was not working on the computer but I still wanted something that look like slides. Step One Using Drawing Pad, I loaded a fun background and used a brush to write my slide heading.

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Outsourcing? Hold Everything And Grab A Screen Capture Software

By Lynette · Comments (1)
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Screen capture with annotation

Sometimes the solution or the path to a solution is right under your nose. While on the job, one of my friend’s clients asked if she knew of a way to make the photos on her site be displayed it does on iPhoto. This posed a problem because my friend doesn’t use a Mac. There are screen shots all over the Internet of course but that’s still not helpful because from what I understand, there are several ways iPhoto displays them. I don’t have the iPhoto app installed and couldn’t help her either. There are many different screens within the iPhoto app. Which portion is the client talking about? When outsourcing, the old adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” is so true. Many times in classes, interviews, webinars, writing etc, my favorite advise is – “Don’t tell, show“. It’s not just for your sanity. It’s for your team’s sanity too. You can show what you mean by grabbing a screen shot or making a screen recording. Here are some tools you can use. Tools to grab static screen shots: Snagit Screenshot Captor SnapDraw Photoscape Tools to record screen videos: Camtasia (Windows and Mac) Jing (Windows and Mac) Wink (Windows) Capture FOX

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Remove Spam Bait From Your Blog

By Lynette · Comments (3)
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
stop-spam

Today, I received the dreaded email that notifies me of a comment awaiting for moderation on a site where WordPress is used as an opt-in page nothing more. Needless to say this type of site is not one I’m in daily or monthly, sometimes not even in 6 months. I know many people use WordPress like that and it’s great because it is so versatile and there are such wonderfully easy plugins like MarketerCMS and WPSalesletter that make it incredibly easy to put up an attractive, effective opt-in page(s). Unfortunately as I mentioned in my interview with Kelly on Detoxing Your Blog, this is also this type of sites have a huge potential to leave security holes and be spam bait because they aren’t in the forefront of our minds. So save yourself some time. If you’re building an opt-in where you know you will unlikely review the page regularly, get rid of obvious spam baits before you finish the project. Delete, trash or un-publish the Hello World post Close all comments and trackbacks Check individual posts to disable comments and trackbacks If you’re a bit more techie and truly will never need comments, nor trackbacks either rename or remove

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2 Gorgeous Yet Functional Plugins For Timelines And Processes

By Lynette · Comments (2)
Friday, January 13th, 2012
Plugin preview

I’m working on a new way to present and display our checklists, lessons and guides in TechBasedTraining. Because a lot of these things are done in a step-by-step manner, I thought it would be good to display them as a process and started build it using some simple jQuery. This was my result Fortunately, while poking around at CodeCanyon one day I stumbled on this great plugin that does this very thing in a much more attractive manner – not to mention less coding for me. Take a look at Dynamic Step Process Panels. I think you’ll agree with me it’s such a nice looking and useful plugin to guide people through the steps they need to complete. They also have a non-WordPress version. While in CodeCanyon, I also found this other impressive plugin called Timetable for WordPress. I’m thinking it might look great for schools, community sites, theaters or even a gated community to display webinar schedules.

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Generate Image Placeholders On The Fly

By Lynette · Comments (0)
Friday, January 13th, 2012
Placeholder blue

A lot of web work require graphics but I’m so graphically challenged it’s not funny. So it’s always a problem when you need a mock up for your own work or clients and don’t have something to put in its place to indicate there is a graphic coming soon. Today I found a tool to solve that. Woo hoo! It’s very flexible. You can change the colors, size, add text all on the fly. Below are some placeholder images generated. Check out, bookmark and use Placehold.it.

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The Importance of Detoxing Your WordPress Powered Site

By Lynette · Comments (0)
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
SoloSmarts

Last week, I managed to jump on a call with Kelly McCausey of SoloSmarts who wanted to talk to me about detoxing a WordPress powered site. Kelly had some fabulous questions such as: Why keep up with updates. Are some plugins no longer necessary? Is my theme hopelessly outdated? How to deal with broken links? How to deal with non-automated spam. This one is tough as most spam filters are good at detected automated spam, not human generated spam. We had a great conversation some good info. Listen in here (nothing to pay). P/S: To expand on plugins that are no longer necessary, here are some I used in the past but no longer because new WordPress features have rendered them unnecessary for our projects. Exclude Pages. We now use the built in WordPress menu feature. Page Links To. This plugin used to help create navigation menus that redirect to outside sites etc without having to edit code. Again we just use WordPress menu. However there are times this is still useful. Plugins to close comments on old posts. This feature is now built into WordPress.

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