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Third Age Alliance

By on March 30, 2005 in Branding, Logos, Portfolio, What

Logo for Third Age Alliance. Three rings connecting each other, but still open (independent). “Alliance” in caps: stronger, bolder.

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The Writing Salon

By on March 28, 2005 in Portfolio, Websites, What, Who, Writers

Year-round school of creative writing, offering classes in all genres – fiction, poetry, memoir, personal essay, screenwriting, playwriting, magazine writing, freelance marketing and publishing, travel writing, children’s books, and much more. (www.writingsalons.com) Features full-page visual calendar with “posting to the future” | css drop-down menus | integration with shopping cart for class registration

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Transfer Domain to GoDaddy

By on March 16, 2005 in Domains, FAQ, Help

Here’s a video that shows you how to transfer a domain name to GoDaddy. One thing you need to make sure of before you start the process is that your domain is “unlocked” at your current/old registrar. Also, make sure that your registration/administration email contact at the current/old registrar is an email you have access [...]

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Using WordPress

By on March 15, 2005 in Help, WordPress

I have installed (on some sites) a new editor that allows you to more easily bold, italicize, etc. the content of your entry in WordPress. However, there’s one glitch: if you just start using the new editor on an EXISTING ENTRY, it will remove ALL paragraph formatting. So a 27-paragraph essay will become a ONE-paragraph [...]

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Add new entry in WordPress

By on March 14, 2005 in Help, WordPress

Here’s how to add (or edit, delete, etc.) an entry (Event, Review, Article, etc.) in WordPress. — Add entry with bolding text, making a hyperlink, and adding an image .

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Sending a simple message with PHP List

By on March 11, 2005 in Email, Help, PHP List

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Layouts :: Fluid or Fixed?

By on March 10, 2005 in Design, Help

I get this question quite a bit, “How come there are two-inch empty borders on the sides of my website? Can’t we make it go the full width of the browser window?” This is the discussion of Fluid (Liquid) or Fixed (Fixed Width) Layouts. Briefly, fluid layouts shrink and grow to fit the browser window. [...]

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Finding Photos and Graphics

By on March 10, 2005 in Help, Photos

There are several great sites out there where you can find fabulous photos. Some are free, some are copyrighted, some are pay-per-photo, some are pay-per-month. Here’s a few I like: – stock.xchng (many are copyright and royalty free) – Stock Photos (pay a monthly fee and download all you want) – Alamy Images (prices vary, [...]

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Incoming server error

By on March 9, 2005 in Email, Help

I often get an error message regarding incoming server. For some reason I am unable to get messages right now. I could receive just 10 minutes ago. Can you help?

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Importing contacts into PHP List

By on March 9, 2005 in Email, Help, PHP List

Here’s some help on getting your Outlook (or other) contacts into PHP List. It’s a bit complicated and the video assumes you know how to export your Outlook contacts into an Excel spreadsheet, but hey, here it is anyway. It assumes you already have your contacts in an Excel spreadsheet and have PHP List up [...]

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Adding Photos in WordPress

By on March 7, 2005 in Help, WordPress

Here’s a video for uploading an image and then inserting into your entry in WordPress (version 1.5 — a bit old). Watch the video.

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About Likoma Island

By on March 7, 2005 in About

Likoma Island /lee-koh-ma/ is a small island in Lake Malawi in East Africa, not too far off the coast of Mozambique. “No running water, no electricity, no mosquitoes, no malaria. Take the boat on Tuesday nights.” That about covered the advertising campaign for the island–scribbled on a slip of paper thumb-tacked to a guesthouse message [...]

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Drupal :: Add an Event

By on March 4, 2005 in Drupal, Help

Here’s a video to add an event to the event calendar in Drupal. Basic steps: Log in. Click Create Content, Click Event, Type a title, choose a category (Fundraiser, Party, Speakers, etc.), Type the body of the event (the information), (Scroll down a bit) Choose the Start and End of the Event. You have to [...]

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Mac: Can’t see bold, italics buttons in WordPress

By on March 1, 2005 in Help, WordPress

On your Mac using WordPress, you’re best off with the Firefox browser. If you use Safari, or worse, Internet Explorer, you probably won’t see these handy buttons in this screen shot. Or, if you can see them, they either won’t work or they’ll put the code you need to the end of the entry, which [...]

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Kevin Smokler

By on March 1, 2005 in Business Cards, Portfolio, What, Who, Writers

Kevin Smokler is a writer, speaker and performer specializing in contemporary literature, popular culture and the narrative arts in technology. (www.kevinsmokler.com)

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