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Slideshare – Are you using it?

November 22, 2010 Website Tools

The following post, from David at twago, details how businesses can utilize the Slideshare social media platform to drive their marketing efforts. Utilizing the benefits of Social Media is difficult for any company. Whilst the prospect of expanding the online presence of your company into new markets to reach potential customers is intriguing, getting the [...]

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Have You Tried mod_pagespeed to Speed Up Your Website?

November 17, 2010 Website Tools

Since reading about its introductionfrom Google on November 3, I’ve been asking people about mod_pagespeed, a module for the Apache HTTP Server. According to Google, it: perform(s) many speed optimizations automatically. We’re starting with more than 15 on-the-fly optimizations that address various aspects of web performance, including optimizing caching, minimizing client-server round trips and minimizing [...]

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Balsamiq Mockups: Great Tool for Website Development

September 1, 2009 Website Tools

I just wanted to share a great tool that I recently found, called Balsamiq, used for creating software mockups. This is great for developers, designers, or web-entrepreneurs like myself. Check out the demo to get a quick walk through.

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Jazz Up Your Blog or Website with Video Broadcasting Online: Some Cool Webcam Tools

June 13, 2007 Blogging

Everyone these days has a webcam, and I’m pretty sure most people don’t really use it too much (outside those of you voyeurs & teenagers out there). I actually use mine almost daily making video phone calls through Skype. It’s great! I keep up with my family, friends, and business associates by making these video [...]

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An Alternative E-Commerce Shopping Cart Solution: E-Junkie?

May 14, 2007 eCommerce

While I’ve already begun to set up my e-commerce website (not even close to being complete, BTW) using OSCommerce, I’m still not 100% convinced that I’ve made the right decision. One of my ecommerce mentors Dave Pitlyuk (he doesn’t even know it yet) has suggested that I use ZenCart instead, but that has made the [...]

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Tools for Finding the Right HTML Hex Colors: Color Codes, Charts, Wheels, & Wizards

May 12, 2007 Blog Design

Obviously, color is an extremely important aspect of web design and style. Figuring out the right colors to use is not easy for a lot of people. I put together a bunch of helpful resources to make it a bit easier to find colors and different color schemes. In addition, I explain to those who [...]

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Use Forums to Find Material for Your Blog

November 25, 2006 Blogging

Wondering how to find some new material for your blog? Create a companion forum site to go along with it. Last year, I decided to create a blog for our real estate investing site, BiggerPockets.com. After a few months, I realized that I had lost my motivation and had run out of material. Why? I [...]

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Exploring Wikis and E-Commerce

November 13, 2006 eCommerce

Building a Wiki Site Last month I mentioned that I was looking into setting up a Wiki and that I had chosen MediaWiki to do so. Since then, I’ve set up my first wiki (it is a work in progress), a real estate wiki. The set up was really easy – like most scripts, the [...]

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Estimating your PPC and Earnings with the AdCalc

November 11, 2006 Website Tools

I found a great little tool earlier today on Modern Life is Rubbish, the AdCalc. This simple tool allows publishers to calculate approximately they are getting paid per click. It will also let you “find out how much you’re making per week, month, and even per year – assuming your traffic remains steady and the [...]

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Easy Google and Yahoo Sitemaps for your Website

November 11, 2006 Website Tools

I just wanted to share a tool that I’ve known about for months, but just started to use. XML-Sitemaps offers both free and paid sitemap generation. I’ve tried the free service in the past, but it is limited by the number of pages it will crawl. On the other hand the paid unlimited service — [...]

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WordPress Blogging Tip – Changing Feed From Summary to Full Text

November 10, 2006 Blogging Tutorials

It is funny how things work. I’ve been blogging for well over a year now, but I went crazy yesterday trying to figure out how to do the simplest thing to my new blog. I wanted to change the feed output from summary to full text, but for the life of me couldn’t figure out [...]

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Another Great Blogging Tool – ResizR

October 3, 2006 Website Tools

One of the most time consuming activities I undertake when working on a blog post (other then writing the post itself) is image manipulation. I found a great web-based tool that will resize any image file on your computer called ResizR. I actually used it to resize the screenshot above. This thing is fast and [...]

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Consolidate Your WordPress Feeds With Feedburner Plugin

September 18, 2006 Blogging

Looking to consolidate all your feed traffic to Feedburner, but aren’t sure how? Steve at OrderedList.com just released his new WordPress FeedBurner Plugin v2.1. It redirects all traffic from your various feeds to the FeedBurner feed to help you track all subscribers. I saw a 100% increase in my subscriber count on another blog after [...]

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Useful Webmaster & SEO Tools

September 17, 2006 Blog Design

I figured that there is no more fitting way to kick off this site, Time For Blogging, then to share with you my favorite Webmaster & SEO Tools. Every webmaster has his own toolbox and these are some of my favorites: Color Wizard What better way to design your website then to color coordinate it. [...]

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