I first learned about FTP many years ago. Ill admit, I was very scared of it. What if I messed it up, what if I deleted something, even… what is it? I am someone that learns by doing so I downloaded a few FTP clients for free just to see what they were. From changing [...]

Lately it has seemed like a lot of Wordpress blogs have been hit by hackers.  While in general it’s not a common occurrence, there are some quick and easy things you can do to make it a little more difficult for hackers to infiltrate and cause major damage to your blog.
1. Update Wordpress
The first thing [...]

For a long time I was anti-facebook.
I am one of those people that really doesn’t participate in farmville, twitter parties, dinosaur eggs, growing flowers, and sending hugs.
I could not understand how people wanted to sign on and read 2o34203894 game updates all day because that was all I saw when I logged in. I personally [...]

The other day I told you that you need to beware of free Wordpress themes with encryption and links in the footer to other sites besides the theme designers site.  I also promised to explain exactly how to remove the encryption, if you do have a theme with encrypted areas in it.
There are two ways [...]

You’ve heard the old adage “you get what you pay for” and probably most people have experienced that truth at some point in their life. There are promises all across the web for FREE this and FREE that and often, there is a catch.
When it comes to Wordpress themes, and probably any blog platform [...]

If you have photoshop you are already aware of the awesome brushes you can use to customize your online work for scrapbooking, templates, and pictures. There are hundreds of sites online with pre-created brushes like:

Brusheezy
Lord of Design
Brush King

But what happens if you want something more personalized or to use for commercial purposes? I wanted to [...]

The other day, Trisha and I had a discussion (argument) over the best place to put the Tweetmeme button. If you don’t know what Tweetmeme is, it is a website that shows the hottest links on Twitter and they have a plugin for Wordpress that makes it super easy for people to Tweet your blog [...]

We all do it sooner or later – question if we want to host our own blog. For me, it came last year while I was switching from Blogger to Word Press. When I added self-hosted to the mix as well, I was a little afraid that the learning curve would be too steep. Thankfully, [...]

This is a quick post on some quick money I made signing up with Linkworth. I wish I could tell you at what point I signed up with them or where I put their affiliate links that someone clicked on them, but I did.
And people clicked.
And I made some moola.
Last month, quite randomly, a check [...]

I admit it, I’m partial to wordpress. But there are so many other blogging platforms out there that it can make a bloggers head spin to decide which is the best way to create a blog that you love. One of the first things you need to decide, is what is the goal of your [...]