Pinterest gives you the basic code to add their nice “Pin It” button to your website.. but to add to WordPress, with all of its dynamic-ness, takes a little extra work. I have a photo-a-day site that I wanted to make “Pin-able”, so here’s how that works, with the WP stuff bolded.
If you have any interest in learning or brushing up on HTML/CSS, here’s a terrific, FREE resource – honestly, it’s better than any book or class that I’ve seen for this purpose.
30 Days to Learn HTML and CSS is a thirty-day video course designed to be completed over one month. Veteran web developer and trainer Jeffrey Way will take you through a new topic each day, giving you the building blocks you need to eventually code an entire website based on a PSD design.
If you’ve ever wanted to learn HTML and CSS, but either didn’t have the time, didn’t know where to start, or didn’t quite ‘get it’, we’re pretty sure you’re going to love this free course. All you need to give us in return is 10 minutes a day to go through each video and build your knowledge.
It’s a great chance to learn something new for just 10-15 minutes a day.
This is your tech conscience speaking. It is time to backup your data. Ok, you should probably change your Brita filter, and you probably need to get an oil change. But most importantly.. you need to backup your data.
There has never been a better time to backup your computer’s data. Really – you can do it all for free, almost without ANY thought. This is especially important if you have a laptop, which many folks do – the reason being, you have one small hard drive, and that’s it. DO NOT RELY on Windows “system restore” or “repair” functions.. if the hard drive has errors, these “features” are useless – and this is almost always the case. I have an external drive on my computer at home – where I backup all data.. but that’s really not enough (if say, your computer is hit by lightning).
Google’s ’+1′ button is the latest button everyone should have on their site. Their latest endeavor is Google Plus – which is slowly uniting all of Google’s social products. It is strongly targeting Facebook – the ‘+1′ button can be likened to FB’s ‘like’ button. I must admit, I am liking it more than Facebook so far.
However, there is something interesting about the +1 button’s purpose – they are not replacing “buzz”, which is more like Facebook’s “share”.
Buzz buttons are used for starting conversations about interesting web content (“Hey guys, what do you think about this news story?”). +1 buttons recommend web content to people in the context of search results (“Peng +1’d this page”), and +1′s from social connections can help improve the relevance of the results you see in Google Search. You can use the +1 button, or the Buzz button, or both—pick what’s right for your content.
When you are a business owner, life is always moving.. and managing all of your Social networks can be a little daunting. Fortunately, there are shortcuts to save a little time, such as posting a message to Facebook automatically posting to Twitter. Facebook has a good explanation of how to hook up its Pages with Twitter, surprisingly. In the explanation:
If you manage a Facebook Page, you now will be able to decide whether to share updates with their Twitter followers, and you also will be able to control what type of updates to share: status updates, links, photos, notes, events or all of them. If you have multiple Pages, you will have the option to link each of those Pages to different Twitter accounts. This new feature will soon be [is] available at http://www.facebook.com/twitter.
Recently Facebook revamped a commenting system, which can replace that of your current blog’s. Adding Facebook Comments to your site is not an overly difficult process – and certainly adds some value. For instance – spammers will have trouble, considering you have to be a real person to be on Facebook (in theory). It also adds huge social value – as comments can appear in FB as well as on your site. It also adds “like” functionality inherently – pretty nice.
What is NOT so nice – the scripts that are pulled in to activate the functionality will break your Lightbox plugins. These are the ones that show off images in a pleasant overlay when you click on them – for standalone posts as well as other plugins such as NextGen gallery.
Fortunately, there’s a solution. An evolution of Lightbox – called Colorbox – seems unaffected by the Facebook factor. What. A. Relief.
WordPress.tv is a great resource for learning the ins and outs of the system. While there are plenty of documents and websites out there for this purpose, video is always a nice visual tour of the process. Here are a couple places to start – whipped up by the actual WordPress folks.
I am a seriously amateur photog armed with a DSLR and.. a knack. Not sure if it is a good knack or a bad knack, but I love to take pictures. My brother has been using Smugmug for quite some time, and I finally got on board a couple of years ago. I was getting really tired of Snapfish and the like – since you could only see crummy small images, deal with ads, and have to login. Smug is my personal art gallery – I show what I want, and people can see the photo just as I intended. You can get prints, gifts, and even get your ORIGINAL file backups anytime you want. They are a small company, and care about their customers.
If you take a lot of photos, it is time to move away from Flickr and the like. Check it out. Here are some of my fav’s.
Pinterest gives you the basic code to add their nice “Pin It” button to your website.. but to add to WordPress, with all of its dynamic-ness, takes a little extra work. I have a photo-a-day site that I wanted to make “Pin-able”, so here’s how that works, with the WP stuff bolded.
WordPress.tv is a great resource for learning the ins and outs of the system. While there are plenty of documents and websites out there for this purpose, video is always a nice visual tour of the process. Here are a couple places to start – whipped up by the actual WordPress folks.