Here are the highlights from this week's "Tips for Improving Your WordPress Skills" from Search For Blogging:



Traditional Rss Icons are commonly seen on every blog nowadays and as time goes by it is essential now for blogger's to offer both Rss Feed and Rss Emails on their blog. You need fresh ideas on how you can create unique buttons for both your Feed a

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Ubuntu is a free Linux Operating System with all the bells and whistles of any standard operating system such as Microsoft Windows or Mac OS. The Ubuntu Desktop Edition is geared towards the typical home user and it covers the basic needs of any com

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Google apps is a set of tools developed by google labs which allows you to use several powerful google features under your own domain name. For example instead of docs.google.com it would be docs.yourdomain.com, or mail.yourdomain.net and others.

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Can you imagine a world without Photoshop? Digital makeovers are literally everywhere, every fashion and celebrity magazine uses / abuses image editing in order to make models appear "flawless". However, while it has become absolutely essential in the media industry, you can get the same effects on your pictures.. maybe not a

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Ever wonder how you can get examples of XHTML and CSS code to display in your blog posts, and on web pages so you can show some coding examples for your readers? This visual tutorial teaches you a couple of ways to do it. You'll learn the long way, and a couple of shortcuts. WordPress BlogMasters will also get a few tips for ways to autom

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For a clean, impressive looking button set that doesn't take up a bunch of design time, glass buttons are the way to go. And slapping together cool glass buttons like the ones on apple.com is extremely simple in Photoshop. I've been using this process for several years now and I know web designers will find it helpful. It's

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With all due respect to Kevin Smith, the web is no longer only for complaining about movies. In fact, there are a large number of very helpful sites that teach you how to do things. These are do-it-yourself sites, but we're not talking about building a deck or baking a cake -- the web is full of more general interest sites that give quality

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Goal of this article: Provide a list of excellent, free applications that will help you get the most out of your computing experience.
Your computer can do so much, but there is always some piece of software that you need first. Lots of applications are complicated and expensive enough to stop people from taking full advantage of their compu

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Like everything, thinking and writing improve with practice. Blogging is a way to refine your practice and assess your thinking about your direct field and beyond.

In the nonprofit/philanthropy field in particular, there is a call for foundations

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If you use the Blogger option "show ads between posts", default position where ads are placed (below te post), isn't a good place for a good result in terms of revenue. This post explains how you can change the AdSense position and improve the number of clicks and CTR for all site's pages. In this way, AdSense is more visible and in just

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How can you use Photoshop to create all the artwork you need for a website? Now you can learn the inside techniques to use Photoshop for designing website and web graphics following this eight lesson tutorial series by a College Instructor, with classroom examples and exercises. Animations? You bet. Mock up a website? Sure... you'll lea

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5 for Friday is a weekly link list offered by Bits O' NewMedia. Every week the best web design and new media related articles are rounded up here. This week's list covers topics from online invoicing solutions to principles of effective web design. The social media article from the new blog, Traffikd by Steven Snell, is on th

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This tutorial is for the designer who wants to get acquainted with the basics of CSS layout. There are a lot of articles floating around with advanced CSS tips and tricks but there seems to be a gaping hole where the basic tutorials should be. An article like this would have been tremendously helpful to me when I first started into CSS layout

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Reusing anReusing an Old PC as a Server
Using Free Software and Equipment that you Already Own
So let’s say you hit the technology jackpot and score yourself a shiny new super computer. (OK, maybe just a plain old new computer.) Congratulations! Now, after you get over the initial euphoria of setting up your new workhorse, yo

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Getting the Most Out of Your Applications: Part 3 Skype

Take Your Calling to the Next Level by Extending Skype
GOAL: Turn Skype from a cheap phone call alternative into a multi-function communication, collaboration, mobile virtuoso.

Skype is the king of the hill when it comes to Voice over IP applications. Besides makin

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not talking about the Windows Live Messenger that Millions uses each day .. i mean the windows original messenger the one that you already find installed after you finish XP installations .

the default windows messenger is full of crap ! and things that you don’t need at all - actually i think it has nothing to do with Insta

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