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Google Enters Browser Competition with Chrome
Google Chrome Logo Internet behemoth Google took a major step towards their mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” with their recent beta release of the Chrome web browser. With t...
WordPress Upgrades to Version 2.6
WordPress.org Home Page WordPress rolled out their update to version 2.6 the other day with some great new feature improvements. Here’s a quick rundown of the new features. WordCount Ever wonder how many words you have in your blog posts? I do...
Supercharge Your RSS with FeedBurner
There are very few blogging services that I universally recommend to all my clients and FeedBurner is one of them. (If you aren’t sure what RSS means or what feeds even are, feel free to check out a post I wrote a while back on RSS and Feeds to get...
15 Ways to Attract Comments Like an A-Lister
Whether we are blogging to support our business or blogging simply to rant about, well, just about anything, we all crave comments on our blogs. Not only do comments show us that somebody, somewhere out there is interested enough about what we wrote ...
But is Twitter Useful?
One of the people that Gorgeous and I connected with in Chicago this past weekend was Christine Kane. It probably didn’t hurt that the three of us were all seated in close proximity to a very wild and obnoxious three year old on the same flight...
Brand New Design
If you are a feed subscriber you might not know. But we’ve just launched the redesigned SuccessCREEations, Inc. website. There are still some bugs to work out yet and now I’m in the same boat that my clients often find themselves, a new w...
Yahoo Working on a New Kind of Search
Chris Brogan shared that Yahoo is considering a new approach to serving up search results. He describes it as The Sound of Content Ripping Free From Its Page. I’m not sure it will be as dramatic as all that for a couple reasons. What’s at...
Comment Policy Formalized
Well, after giving it some more thought I’ve decided to implement the formal Comment Policy that we talked about last week. Basically we’re going to use it as is for now. If we see a need to adjust down the road we’ll adapt it as re...
Mac Friday - Screenshots
Screenshots. No, we’re not talking about the big guy on the right here spraying gobs of bullets on the silver screen, as entertaining as that is. A screenshot is simply a way to capture what you are looking at right now on your computer screen...
Updating Our Comment Policy
One year ago this coming Saturday I announced here on SuccessCREEations that we were going to start rewarding quality commenters. In that post I announced two things. I installed the Show Top Commentors plugin (original version.) I had some challeng...
WordPress Advanced ToolBar
One of the advantages of using WordPress as a publishing platform is that the WordPress folks are constantly adding new and better features. It can be a challenge to keep up sometimes. This is especially true if we’ve come up with a way to do s...
Bloglines Beta vs Google Reader
As a guy who who helps businesses with blogging and the whole social media scene I’m often asked to make recomendations on feed readers. For many folks a web based reader makes sense. The ability to keep up with feeds from any computer with an ...
1 Simple Tip to Improve Readability and SEO at the Same Time
One of the questions I get asked a lot is, “Are you an SEO Expert?” When I talk with the asker a bit, usually what they want to know is, “Can you help my site get ranked higher in the search engines?” You bet I can do that. Di...
Errors Upgrading WordPress - Troubleshooting Tips
Not everyone follows instructions. When upgrading your WordPress site not following the upgrade instructions can cause some really unpleasant things to happen and give some scary error messages. Maybe you messed things up through ignorance. Or if you...
When Hosting Goes Bad
Web hosting is not a 100% thing. I tell people that while most reputable hosts legitimately claim 99% up time things do break. It doesn’t matter whether they are mechanical or electronic. Bad things happen from time to time. That 99% figure is ...
