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Conquering Site Validation Errors

October 6, 2005 – 8:07 am

Validating your web pages is an important part of designing and developing your website design and layout. However, there is a lot of confusion for new users on what all those validation errors mean and what you need to know when working on your website design and layout and WordPress Theme. Begin your web page […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Web Browsers, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (24)

Blog Exercises: Check Your Site Title Tag

March 14, 2013 – 4:40 am

Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is required to have the <title> tag in the <head> of the source code HTML structure. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blog title, Blogging Tips, code, html, html title, html title tag, post title, seo, site title, tags, title tag, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (10)

Prove It: Defining Your Avenues of and Communication Marketing

June 15, 2012 – 11:54 am

A news story came out today that specifically served a client of mine. It was a national news story that could help them support their current clients with helpful information, and help convert potential clients with persuasive, current event information. Unfortunately, this client has been adamant against blogs, interactive websites, and social media. In my […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: advertising, announcements, article series, atom, communication, community building, demographis, email, facebook, feed, feeds, google currents, google reader, marketing, news, newsletters, promotion, prove it, proveit, rss, seo, site subscriptions, smo, social media, social media marketing, social networks, social web, social web marketing, subscribe, subscriptions, twitter | Comments (3)

Basic Facts and Resources You Need to Know Now About Web Accessibility

July 15, 2011 – 8:41 am

Last night I gave a presentation for an amazing group of web designers and developers in Portland, Oregon. I spoke about web accessibility, a long time passion of mine. My co-presenter was Winslow Parker from the Oregon Commission for the Blind who has been teaching screen reading and computer techniques to the blind. He’s also […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, Web Design, WordPress News, WordPress Themes | Tags: access, accessibility, aria, checkers, disability, disability validation, disabled, html5, oregon, portland, portland oregon, testers, tools, validation, validation tools, validators, web accessibility, web accessibility validation tools, Web Design, website testing, website validation, WordPress Themes | Comments (28)

WordPress Post Content Sandbox Content Updated

January 17, 2009 – 7:34 pm

The thirteenth blog post published on Lorelle on WordPress was Designing a WordPress Theme – Building a Post Sandbox. This post continues to be useful to WordPress Theme developers and testers, so I’ve updated it and included an easier-to-use sandbox post text file. When designing, testing, or tweaking a WordPress Theme, you need to pay […]

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Blog Struggles: Trackbacks Count

December 16, 2008 – 4:01 am

At a blog conference recently, I overheard the following exchange over a laptop as part of a blog review exercise: “For your blog to be successful, you need more comments on your blog posts.” “I have plenty of comments on my blog. See, this one has 14 comments.” “That post has only one comment. The […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Struggles, Blogging Tips, WordPress News | Tags: Blogging Tips | Comments (19)

When a Comment Requires the Honest Truth

May 16, 2008 – 2:02 pm

Maybe it was one of those days. Maybe it was something in the air. Today, I had six comments that required the honest truth as a response. Not the tempered, kinder and gentler response but the hard cold truth. The kind of truth you have to give knowing that some can’t take it. Not all […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, Writing | Comments (25)

Blog Resources: Researching the Research, Finding the Facts, and Seeking Supporting Evidence

March 12, 2008 – 4:25 am

As part of my ongoing series on blog resources, covering the many online resources I use to help me blog, you can tell that I don’t deal with rumors or guesses. I like facts. I don’t mind a few estimates, but I like being right when I make a claim or statement, so I work […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, Writing | Comments (18)

Blog Challenge: Testing Your Blog’s Accessibility

February 7, 2008 – 4:08 am

I’ve talked a lot over the years about how important it is to design your website or blog to be accessible. There is a growing number of bloggers and blog readers who are reading your blog right now with a screen reader which reads your blog to them, or some other magnification or screen customization […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises | Tags: advice, blog, Blog Challenge, blog exercises, blog writing, blogger, blogging, blogging advice, blogging help, blogging lessons, Blogging Tips, help, how to blog, lessons, tips, web writing, Writing | Comments (10)

Celebrating Two Years: A Month of WordPress Tips

August 31, 2007 – 10:22 am

As part of my two month-long party celebrating the two year anniversary of WordPress.com and this blog with guest bloggers, we’re just finishing up month one of non-stop blogging about blogging, and tomorrow begins a whole month of non-stop WordPress tips. To help get you in the mood, here are some of the tips for […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (28)

Bloggers Are Not Webmasters and Webmasters Are Not Bloggers

July 22, 2007 – 5:13 am

This comes under the “I wish I’d wrote that” heading. LGR Webmaster Blog featured “Bloggers Are Not Webmasters”, a simple look at the difference between a webmaster and a blogger, which goes to show that there is a lot to managing both a website and blog. In general, it is a good look at the […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, Web Design | Comments (18)

A Blog Anniversary: Learning From Your Past Mistakes

June 17, 2007 – 4:05 am

eMom’s Wendy Piersall write an endearing post recent, “The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes I Made in My First Year”. In it, she admits her failures and the things she should have done differently. Here’s one I love: I blogged 7 days a week When I first started, I hadn’t found my rhythm – nor did […]

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Validating Multiple Pages on Your Blog

April 16, 2007 – 5:37 am

Validating one web page full of code on your WordPress blog doesn’t help you find all the errors that may be hiding out among all the various pages and page views on your blog. The W3C Canada Validator validates multiple pages on your blog, tracking down errors across the different pages and page views. You […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging Tips, Web Browsers, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (8)

Odds and Ends WordPress Plugins You Must Know About

March 5, 2007 – 6:36 am

When I started researching and planning this month long series on WordPress Plugins over six months ago, I had a very specific list of 30 different categories of WordPress Plugins to bring to you such as WordPress Plugins for comment spam, feeds, subscriptions, statistics, layout and formating, multimedia and images, comments, multiple bloggers, polls and […]

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WordPress Plugins for Multiple Blogger Blogs

March 4, 2007 – 8:40 am

Many blogs feature more than one blogger contributing to the blog’s content. There are WordPress Plugins that can help you control access to your WordPress blog as well as help customize the blog to accommodate multiple bloggers on one blog. As part of my almost finished month long series on WordPress Plugins, I wanted to […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips | Comments (89)