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WordPress 2.5 More Observations

April 25th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Manage still exists but Options is gone. The Options have been scattered about various places on the Dashboard. Settings, Plugins, Users are now top right. They aren’t on a tab just sitting there to themselves.

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Tags: How To · Real Estate Blogging

Brother MFC-5460CN Much Less Than a Printer

March 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Follow the Logic Brick Road
I’ve never been the kind of person to use a knife for a screwdriver, well maybe a couple of times.  But that’s not the point.
While the ladies of the house might go to the mall [...]

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Tags: How To · Real Estate Blogging

Google Site Search

February 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Have you ever done a Google search and when you clicked on a link it went to the homepage of the site and not to the information you were looking for.
Most of us take 1 millionth of a second to see it isn’t there and rather than try and find navigation to the page we [...]

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Tags: How To · Setup

Wordpress 2.1 Text Editor Why I hate it

February 1st, 2007 · No Comments

 I’ve spent so much time trying to get 2.1 up and running with the Tiga theme and various plugins I haven’t done much in the way of posting.  Now I’m trying to post and the new editor is biting me hard.  Of course I discover this after saying it might be ok to upgrade to [...]

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Tags: How To · Setup

Add a little margin to your blog photos

January 13th, 2007 · 5 Comments

When you place a photo in a blog post do you just live with the text running right up to the edge of your image.  Would you like to have some margin, but you don’t know how to get it.  Here is an easy way to get what you want.
Images can be right, left or [...]

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A Great Real Estate Camera - Kodak V570

January 12th, 2007 · 7 Comments

This last year we had a lot more listing than usual.  I was taking a lot of photos of interiors as well as outside shots.  
One of the frustrating things I’ve run into is trying to take interior shots that didn’t make the rooms look small.  I ran across an ad for the Kodak V570 camera.  I wasn’t impressed with [...]

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Tags: How To · Real Estate Blogging

Sitemap Plugin

January 5th, 2007 · 11 Comments

I wanted a sitemap on our Tucson Real Estate blog. I went looking on the WordPress plugin section site.  I found Dagon Design sitemap plugin easy to install and configure and it does exactly what I wanted it to do.  You can see it at work on the Sitemap page in the right navigation.
Here are the simple [...]

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Tags: How To · Plug-ins · Real Estate Blogging

Hittail, A Peek Behind The Curtain

December 22nd, 2006 · 2 Comments

I actually was using Hittail for quite some time before Mary at RSS Pieces mentioned it in her Top 10 Best SEO Web Tools.  There are a lot of good tools mentioned on that post.  I have used some of them and I’ve bookmarked that post and go back to it often.
I imagine that most [...]

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Tags: How To · Real Estate Blogging · Setup

Urinal Marketing

December 21st, 2006 · 8 Comments

Now this is what I call a man dedicated to marketing.  Notice his card is for “Affordable Health Package”.  So if you feel like things aren’t coming out as you had hoped at the moment, you have before you an opportunity to upgrade your health care to something more affordable.
I would recommend you wait to [...]

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RSS Chicklets in Sidebar Widget

December 18th, 2006 · 5 Comments

Wait a miniute I thought I already read this, but now it is different.  Have you ever watched a movie over and found out they changed the ending on you since you last saw it.  Well I’m changing this entire post.
If RSS Feeds are a mystery to you then welcome to the party.  It seems there are certain [...]

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Tags: How To · Real Estate Blogging · Setup