tech sectiontech sectionAfter upgrading from an earlier version of the Windows Live Toolbar, you may note several changes to your upgraded toolbar, including the fact that you can no longer find your favorites and some of their website icons. With the update, Windows Live Toolbar changed the functionality of how the toolbar works, which changes what you see.
If you like displaying social media and popular blog site icons on your website, you may like Google's Blogspot icon. Seen by everyone who visits a Blogspot blog, the brightly colored orange Blogspot icon lets site visitors know that they are visiting a Blogger site. Even if you don't have a Google Blogger account, you can still add the icon to one of your Web pages once you upload the icon to your Web server.
SimpleCaddy is an extension for websites using the Joomla content management system as the basis for the content on their pages. If you are visiting a site that is employing the extension, you can automatically order an item that is referenced on a page in the website with a single click, provided that it is being offered for sale. If you place the order by mistake or wish to edit the contents of your SimpleCaddy shopping cart, it is a simple matter of a few mouse clicks.
Runner.exe is a lightweight streaming multimedia player for Netscape Navigator, complete with agent support and in-browser usability. Installation is remarkably simple, requiring only that you proceed through the interactive wizard as directed, clicking the necessary buttons to install the program.
Joomla is a free, open-source system for building websites. Web developers of all skill levels can create websites and participate in an interactive community designed to make the most of the Joomla. According to the not-for-profit organization behind Joomla, its software is responsible for 2.7 percent of the entire Web. The mission of Joomla "to provide a flexible platform for digital publishing and collaboration."
You can use a third-party plugin to facilitate automatically posting to WordPress from a RSS feed you log in to the plugin. These plugins can be used to provide content to your blog on a regular basis, so you don't have to remember to update your blog every day or on your normal update schedule. Once you set up an auto-posting plugin, the data is pulled from your RSS feed and converted in to a WordPress post before being made live.
Ask a question and get an answer from Aardvark. When you join or sign in at Vark.com, you type a question and Aardvark finds a friend, or a friend of a friend, with knowledge about your topic to answer the question for you. With Facebook Connect, you can connect your account to your Facebook account and gain access to more people who can answer your question.
While many people use WordPress as a blogging software, you may not realize how many more use WordPress pages for an easy-to-manage website, without even bothering with a blog. WordPress pages are a option for creating an online Content Management System (CMS) for putting a lot of different pages online quickly, without worrying about formatting and code that would normally have to be built behind the content. You can then use the Categories option of your blog posts to add updated or related information to any page of content.
WordPress is software that you can use to create a website in minutes. Once you have installed WordPress on your website, you can customize it with a variety of themes and plugins. Plugins are short pieces of code that perform a particular task, like add content from another platform or program. Whether you want to add content from a comma separated value file or an HTML file, a WordPress plugin can probably help you.
If you have a WordPress website, with a little configuration you can turn it into the platform for your own email newsletter. To do this, you need to set up a new category for your newsletter posts, then make that category hidden from everyone except the subscribers to your newsletter. Fortunately, there are WordPress plugins that do just that. To burn your newsletter feed for email subscribers you can use FeedBurner or any other free news feed service.
Google hosts many scripts and libraries in its Content Delivery Network (CDN). When you store anything on a CDN, it saves many copies of your content across multiple computers to ensure the content is always available and that it loads quickly. This makes using a Google CDN script for WordPress a good choice, but WordPress already comes with many scripts built in. You must first deregister the script and re-register the Google CDN version before enqueuing it into your WordPress theme.
As of June 2011, WordPress is one of the most-used self-hosted blogging platforms in the world. One of the major draws of the WordPress platform is the ability for its users to customize blogs to their liking. If you want to add custom text to a sidebar, for example, you can install a custom text box widget and enter text, HTML snippets and more. You can learn how to install a custom text box in WordPress by following a few steps.
When creating a Web presence that includes social networking, WordPress and Twitter are both indispensable tools. WordPress' flexible plug-in architecture and easy-to-use widgets make it simple for the site's fans to integrate the two. WordPress admins always need to be wary of the creeping bloat that comes from too many widgets, however, balancing value and cost.
In the past, when you wanted to keep track of a website, you added it as a "favorite," often using folders to organize content. Anytime you wanted to visit that website again, you simply went into your favorites and clicked on the link. Social bookmarks are like favorites. The difference is that favorites are stored only on your computer, and bookmarks are stored on external websites. Many websites exist on which to store bookmarks.
Aardvark is an online tool that lets you ask questions and receive answers from your personal network of friends. Syncing your Facebook and Aardvark accounts gives you the benefit of asking questions to your Facebook friends and tapping into one of the most popular social networks on the Web. The Aardvark website makes it incredibly easy to connect your Facebook profile with the service.
The more websites a customer bookmarks in his Internet browser, the more likely yours will get lost in the shuffle. Favorites icons, better known as favicons, help customers identify your website quickly. This image of your company logo, which appears next to your website address when a person visits your website, is only 16-by-16 pixels. Yet according to "Entrepreneur" magazine, it increases your company's credibility with consumers. It takes less than 10 minutes to make your own favicon, and it's one of the best things you can do for your website.
Reposting WordPress posts to increase traffic or to simply disseminate information to a wider audience is a frequent practice on the web. You have several ways to accomplish it, everything from RSS feeds to copy-and-paste methods. The best method probably depends on the tool used to make the website where you repost, but whatever the web-design tool, easy methods are available to automatically repost WordPress blog entries.
The "wp_head" function of your Wordpress header file generates a meta tag on your site that lists the version of Wordpress you are using. Some believe this can open the door for hackers; however, Wordpress includes it as a default feature, which would indicate that it's relatively safe. Nevertheless, you can remove the version number, if desired. The process is simple and requires no modification of the Wordpress core files, so you'll have no issues when updating to a newer version of Wordpress.
BirdNest allows users to enter and access data from a mobile device or anywhere Internet is available. Data collected in the field is entered immediately and sent electronically to an online database using a compatible PDA. Authorized users can instantly view current data from any Internet-connected device. If you are a frequent BirdNest user, you can create an icon on your desktop for quick access.
You can link to external RSS feeds from your WordPress blog by using the RSS widget. This widget allows you to pull in blog post titles, author information and summaries using the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) standard. When displayed, each feed item is linked from your blog to the blog of the original writer. You can learn how to add an RSS widget and link to external feeds in WordPress by following a few steps.
Joomla is a CMS (content-management system) that facilitates a webmaster's role of implementing and updating a website with little or no HTML requirements. Joomla's feature set includes blog updating, picture galleries, custom URLs and Web templates. A webmaster can go so far as to remove or customize the site's favicon, providing complete control and customization over the published website.
Convert an icon image file in the .ICO format to a file type that can be uploaded to the Internet for sharing or displayed with an HTML tag. The .ICO format is for desktop icon images and the 16 by 16-pixel "favicon" images that are used as browser icons. Bypass the need to download an image editing or converting software by visiting a website that will let you edit or convert online for free.
WordPress is a prepackaged blogging platform you can install on your own domain or subdomain that offers unlimited customization coupled with ease of use. When you publish a blog post on certain WordPress themes, a date and author name appear at the top of each post. If you are the only person posting on the WordPress blog, you may wish to remove the author name from all of the posts. You can do this by editing the functions.php file using the file editor portion in your WordPress dashboard.
By default the source code of your WordPress website displays the version number of the WordPress software running on your server. Generally this is information that only you need to know and you can always find it on the front page of your WordPress dashboard. If an exploit should be discovered for the version of WordPress that you use a hacker could write a script to search for websites with that version in their source code and run the exploit automatically. Reduce the chance of this happening by removing the version number from your website's source code.
WordPress is a content management system that allows you to create blogs and websites on the Internet. Widgets are codes or small applications you can place on your WordPress sidebars to provide more features and functions for your visitors. You can create an official Twitter follow widget using the code provided from the Twitter website and place it on your WordPress site. This allows Twitter users to click an image linked to your Twitter account, where they can follow your Twitter posts.
Social bookmarking is a phenomenon where people share their favorite websites. It is done on websites like StumbleUpon.com, Digg.com, and Delicious.com. For website owners, it's also a way to expand audience and build "back links" which can boost a site's search engine ranking. A website operator can sync these social bookmarking sites to other social media like Facebook and Twitter. By doing this, users don't have to post individual links on every social bookmarking site. They post a link in one or two places and their link will appear on social media sites. Bloggers can sync their entire site to…
WordPress comes with a built-in autosave for all posts -- and unfortunately offers no simple utility to turn it off or modify the timing. However, you can go into the PHP files of WordPress itself and change the settings to either turn off or change the intervals at which WordPress saves. Before changing any vital system files make backups of your current files, make sure you're using a plain text editor, not a word processing program -- word processing programs, such as Microsoft Word, can often mess up the sensitive syntax of PHP files.
The Featured Content Gallery WordPress plugin automatically rotates WordPress posts and pages on your WordPress site. It is offered by iePlexus. Like other WordPress plugins, the Featured Content Gallery is installed in the Plugins folder of your Web hosting when it is downloaded. To completely uninstall the Featured Content Gallery, it's first deactivated and deleted through WordPress. Then it's removed completely from your Web hosting Plugins folder.
The Joomla! site icon, or "favicon," is a 16-by-16 pixel image file that your browser displays in its address bar along with the site URL and on its tabs next to the site or page name. The Joomla! content management system accesses the favicon for display through the template by pointing at the specific address for the icon contained within the template. The default Joomla! icon is installed with the templates that come with Joomla!. You can install your own favicon to replace it.
Alternate row colors -- often called "zebra striping" -- in tables and lists make websites more readable. When tables or lists do not alternate background colors, it becomes easier for a person's eyes to skip around and misread important information. In WordPress, the easiest method for alternating row colors is to use jQuery. You must first make your theme compatible with jQuery and then add jQuery code that inserts a new class in every other row of a table or list. Use CSS code to tell the browser which background color to use for that class.
Syncing a WordPress blog you manage with your Facebook profile is a useful and convenient way to share your latest posts with your online social network. Instead of copying a link to a new post and pasting it on your Facebook status message, you can eliminate those steps entirely. WordPress.com gives bloggers the ability to share with different networks and sites, including Twitter, Yahoo and Facebook.
Many blog and website content management systems have easy options for adding a Twitter widget to your site, but maybe it doesn't look right in the designated spot on your site or it isn't as customized as you'd like. If you have some knowledge of HTML and know how to add raw code to your website's template, you can use Twitter's customizable widget and button options to integrate your tweets -- or just a link to them -- into your site.
Hiding your WordPress version is one of the methods of increasing your website's overall security recommended by WordPress. While WordPress encourages users to always maintain the latest update, if you happen to be using an older version then you are exposed to potential security holes that have been fixed in recent versions. When your WordPress version is visible to the public, you are providing hackers with information that they can take advantage of if they identify you are using a previous versions with known vulnerabilities
Few things are as frustrating as realizing that the title and tool bars in Windows Vista are missing. A missing title bar simply means that the active window is being displayed in full screen mode. Exiting full screen mode restores the title bar. Fortunately, the removal of a toolbar is also neither permanent nor a major cause for concern. The toolbar can be quickly restored online by the Microsoft support website which will automatically reset it.
If you own a WordPress blog or a website where the posts are listed under several different categories, provide a "Multiple Category Selector Widget" that allows readers to search several categories at once. It is available in the WordPress plugin directory. Install the plugin on your site and create multiple categories and sub-categories for the search bar.
Your website's default feed address is always the same. Your RSS feed is what most people will use to keep up with your posts; by making that RSS feed readily available in the form of a link, you can make it that much easier to for users to subscribe to your website.
Twitter includes several resources for adding Twitter icons to a website or blog. Twitter icons can be just a plain image or can act as buttons on your blog. The three types of buttons are "Follow" buttons, "Tweet" buttons and widgets. When a visitor to your blog clicks a "Follow" button, she is taken to your Twitter profile page. When a visitor clicks a "Tweet" button, your blog post is automatically posted to her Twitter account. Widgets provide a real-time feed to your Twitter profile or a feed to the Twitter accounts you follow.
When programming a WordPress theme, you can include regular JavaScripts in much the same way as you would on a static HTML website. The only difference is that you must provide special WordPress code in the path to external JavaScripts, or else WordPress will not find them. When using a JavaScript library such as jQuery, MooTools and YUI, things get a little more complicated. Because some popular JavaScript libraries come bundled in WordPress, you must enqueue the necessary library in your theme before including any files that use it.
If you're reading this, you have the basic tools to "surf" the Internet. However, there are a few more things you need to know to get the most out of your experience on the web. You'll need a set of plug-ins to open different media types used by web designers. You may want to organize a set of bookmarks to keep your most-visited pages close at hand. And finally, you can use an Internet system called an RSS feed to deliver content directly to you without having to spend time searching for it.
As social networking sites continue to grow, it is important for producers of original content to adapt and connect with their readers on these sites. Both Facebook and Twitter have widgets available to connect your accounts with content on your WordPress blog. The Facebook widget allows a person to like your blog's Facebook fan page, which automatically shares it on the person's Facebook wall. Meanwhile, the Twitter widget can be embedded into a sidebar on your blog and share your latest tweets with any of your visitors in a small, vibrant and customizable box.
Browsing in full screen mode gives you the most bang for your buck. When in full screen mode, your task bar and the title bar of your browser are hidden, increasing the screen area of the actual websites that you are visiting. Switch between viewing modes in your browser of choice with a simple keystroke.
Blogging platform WordPress automatically saves your working drafts every 60 seconds on self-hosted installations and every 120 seconds on hosted WordPress.com blogs. To conserve space in the database, each new autosave draft replaces the one before it, so each post and page has only one autosave draft at a time. You can locate an autosaved draft alongside all previous saved versions of a given page or post in the WordPress authoring interface.
Open source projects, such as WordPress, allow users to utilize tools from the program, changing the layout and capabilities of the software. Since WordPress provides the ability to create a website, they have provided users the ability to automatically save their work using the "auto save" feature. Because WordPress is an open source project, users are free to disable this feature by accessing the coding page from the WordPress file.
Wordpress is an open-source blog software and content management system that makes it simple for novice users to create a website or blog. By default, Wordpress displays the version of the software currently installed on your site. This is not visible to the naked eye, but it's visible if someone views the page source file and website code. It's also visible to search engines. The feature is known as the Wordpress generator. Removing it from your website is straightforward.
Sometimes, when dealing with many open application windows or multiple monitors, the windows can become partially or fully off-screen. With the window hidden off-screen, it might seem impossible to grab the window and bring it back into view. Luckily, there's a way around this using a keyboard trick and the "Move" command that will pop the window right back, front and center.
Hybrid is a framework theme for Wordpress. A framework theme is a basic, stripped-down theme that gives you an open template for customization. Although a framework theme is functional as is, it's often used with a child theme, such as the Hybrid News child theme, that builds on the basic design and adds additional features. By default, the pages you've created will show up in your Hybrid navigation menu. If you don't want a specific page to show up, you can hide it using a plugin or by editing the Wordpress functions code.
When adding a price list table to your WordPress blog, you have a couple of options with varying difficulty. The HTML editor is available to add a post or page, and write the table using only a few simple skills. Alternately, use a plugin with WordPress blogs to make the process easier. Plugins even help you import price list data you might already have.
WordPress is a blog creation website introduced in 2003. It initially was started to enhance the typography of writing but exploded into the largest self-hosted blogging tool. The code for templates and plugins is all open source, meaning that it was created by users to be used for free by others. A ticker on a WordPress blog is a plugin that creates a sliding banner on the blog. The banner can display RSS feeds, photos, posts, comments and more. Removing a ticker is just as easy as adding one to a blog.
There are lots of different ways web users can register with your site. Registering to an RSS feed, for example, means a user can subscribe to your site's content and receive article updates every time you publish something new. Users can also register to the site itself as a reader, writer or even editor: content management systems offer the option of making a "Register" button on your homepage that visitors can click on and sign-up.
The United Parcel Service has two different types of service for shipping and tracking packages: UPS Basic and UPS Pro. The basic service ships packages to a variety of locations through the United States Postal Service's (USPS) mail system rather than deliver the packages via UPS. Although the basic service uses the postal service to send packages, all packages can be tracked through the UPS website using a unique tracking number.
A readily available RSS feed is one of the tools a blogger can utilize in the quest to reach more readers. The RSS icon can be placed on your Wordpress site for readers to easily add it to their preferred feed reader, which allows them to keep up to date with your website. If you have a WordPress-hosted blog, all the tools are already available to you under Widgets; if you are hosting your own WordPress-run site, you will have to install an extra plugin.
Facilitating quick and easy online form completion, Autofill is a convenient and time saving add-on for the Firefox web browser. If you happen to delete Autofill from your system because of personal preference or out of necessity, you can reinstall the add-on with ease. Follow these basic steps to reinstall Autofill onto you computer.
Many websites feature what are known as favicons. Favicons are simply tiny icons that show up next to a website's URL and in a bookmark list when users bookmark the website. A favicon makes your website stand out and easy to locate in a bookmark list. Create a favicon so that you have a bookmark icon for your website.
There may be Web pages that you visit frequently and are tired of typing the URL addresses in each time you want to navigate to them. Web browsers have created a simple way for you to upload your favorite Web sites to your desktop so that you can have quick access to them. Minimize the hassle with these simple guidelines.
When surfing to many websites, an icon will show up in the browser bar. The icon is a great benefit in helping to brand and build an image for the website. It is often used by institutions such as banks and brokers to differentiate their sites from competitors and fakes. The addition of this simple feature makes a website appear more professional. The entire website can display a single icon, or different icons can be displayed in the various areas of the site.
Many websites display a small graphic inside the URL bar, commonly a small version of the website's logo or of the company's mascot. These small images are often referred to as "favicons," which is short for "favorites icons," and are generally made to make websites stand out more, especially when being bookmarked. Putting one on your website is not very difficult or time-consuming, but it involves sections of the website's code, so caution is suggested.
All modern web browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari, display miniature icons in their menu bars that change depending on the website you are currently viewing. These icons are selected by the developer of a website, and if you own or design a web page you can change its icon so that visitors will see a certain image every time they load your site.
A favorite icon (favicon) is the little logo that you see in the address bar of your browser. These website icons are very useful for distinguishing your website from others because you can place your business logo or other preferred graphic next to your URL. In addition to the address bar, these custom images also appear in a bookmark list and help them stand out from all of the other links. You can easily make your own website icon using just a small image.
The title bar is the bar that runs horizontally across an application window. The title bar will contain either the name of the file--for example, a document you are viewing--or the website you are viewing through your Internet browser. Find out how to use, customize and install add-ins to title bars.
You wouldn’t think there is much to the Eric-Carle.com website. When you first log on to it the first thing that appears is almost a completely white page with just a caterpillar inching his way along. However, the caterpillar is quickly replaced with a collection of icons with links to different functions. These different icons will be discussed and navigated through with this step-by-step guide. Enjoy the tour and the wonderful world of Eric Carle.
