Everton Publishers’ Genealogy Blog reports that Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library are sponsoring the World eBook Fair. Project Gutenberg, with the cooperation of many other eBook publishers, is currently sponsoring a month-long eBook Fair. They have made available about 1/3 million books – free of charge – until August 4, 2006. The World eBook […]
October 7, 2005 – 10:47 am
As mentioned, Google is becoming a one-stop shop for searching, advertising, Internet, and webbing. So I thought I’d check out all the Google Page Ranks, Google News, Google Gossip, Google Blues, and information you can use about Google. We recently wrote about how Google ranks websites, Google Blogsearch, and how to submit your sitemap and […]
This week on Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course we’ve been covering the web browser, your gateway to the web and WordPress. So far in this Web Browser Guide series we’ve covered some web browser history, keyboard and mouse shortcuts, browser tabs, and search operators and shortcuts to help you find WordPress help as well […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: bookmarks, browser bookmarks, browser tips, browsers, learn wordpress, read later, read web pages offline, save bookmarks, save web page, save web page for reference, save web page to read later, send to, sendto, web browser, web browser tips, web browsers, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
Search is used in WordPress for many different purposes as you prepare, develop, implement, and launch your website, and as you continue to maintain and publish on the site. This tutorial will help you understand how to search within a web page with the web browser, search within a WordPress site, and provide helpful tips […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, Web Browsers, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: browsers, find, google search, how to search, learn wordpress, search, search operators, searching tips, web browser, web browsers, web search, web searching tips, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials |
February 26, 2015 – 2:28 pm
The previous assignment in Lorelle’s WordPress School covered the visual and text editors in WordPress. In this assignment, I’d like to focus on making paragraphs within both editors. A paragraph in HTML is a container holding contextual content, the written word. The HTML of a paragraph opens and closes with the paragraph tag. If we […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress School, WordPress Tips
| Tags: content, html, learn wordpress, line break, paragraph, web writing, wordpress guide, wordpress help, WordPress News, wordpress school, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, Writing |
January 16, 2015 – 1:18 pm
Are you ready to join Lorelle’s WordPress School? Let’s get going. Here is what you need to know. To participate, you need the following: A free WordPress.com site or other test site for experimentation Join and participate in the WordPress School Google+ Community Do the assignments and tasks associated with each lesson Comment on the […]
March 15, 2014 – 12:23 am
I will be speaking this year at several workshops and conferences on the subject of “WordPress for Writers.” The workshop covers the basic elements of WordPress content structure and organization, then adds the complexities of a site for writers and authors. This is one of a series of articles on WordPress for Writers and Authors. […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing
| Tags: author websites, authors, wordpress, wordpress for authors, wordpress for writers, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, writer websites, writers, Writing, writing for the web |
October 4, 2012 – 2:25 pm
According to the American Library Association, September 30 through October 6, 2012, is a salute to Banned Books week. Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, Blogging News
| Tags: arrest, ban, banned bloggers, banned blogs, banned blogs list, blocked blogs, bloggers, blogging, blogging censorship, censorship, civil rights, eff, electronic frontier foundation, freedom, freedom of speech, laws, legal, list of banned blogs, politics, speech, Writing |
September 5, 2012 – 4:45 am
Before you check out your next WordPress shopping cart or ecommerce WordPress Plugin, you need to read this. In April 2011, Smashing Magazine published “Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout Design” in their UX (User Experience) column exploring what they called the “harsh reality” of e-commerce websites. According to recent e-commerce studies, at least 59.8% of […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Design, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Tips
| Tags: carts, e-commerce, ecommerce, shopping carts, Usability, Web Design, wordpress, wordpress carts, wordpress ecommerce, WordPress News, wordpress orders, WordPress Plugins, wordpress shopping carts |
September 3, 2012 – 3:56 pm
Firefox 15 is out. According to InformationWeek, the latest version of the Firefox web browser is better than ever. Here is a summary of the new features: Behind-the-Scenes Updates: No longer will you have to fuss over upgrades. It will happen in the background and “seamlessly implement the changes when the browser is next launched.” […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Web Browsers, Web Design, Web Wise, WordPress
| Tags: browser, firefox, firefox 15, web browser, Web Design, web developer tools, web development, web development tools, wordpress |
August 25, 2012 – 4:56 am
Last year, Literature and Latte, the creators of the powerful Scrivener writer’s program, shook the writing world with an innovative “Write a book in a day” project. They are doing it again this year. This form post for Novel-in-a-Day 2: The Revenge details the information. The event is Saturday, October 20, 2012, 2100 UK time, […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in blogging tips, Writing
| Tags: blog writig, competition, ebooks, fiction, how to write, novel, scrivener, web publishing, web writing, writers, Writing, writing event, writing tools |
April 26, 2012 – 12:01 pm
As part of my project to bring WordPress into colleges nationally, I did a quick survey of how many books have been published about WordPress. I was asked by several major publishers to publish the first book in English on WordPress but had to decline due to my traveling schedule and work load, so it’s […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: books, books about wordpress, books on wordpress, how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress advice, wordpress books, wordpress codex, wordpress design, wordpress development, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, wordpress techniques, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress writing |
I’m speaking at WebVisions on “Managing Multiple Bloggers in WordPress” on Thursday, May 26, 2011, at 11:30AM in Portland, Oregon. The following is part of a series of articles on the topic and notes from my presentation. Growing up with print media, my family couldn’t get enough of Gary Larson’s The Far Side cartoon strip […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
| Tags: blog authors, blog contributors, blog management, bloggers, contributors, editor, guest bloggers, how to use wordpress, managing a blog, managing multiple authors, multiple bloggers, multiple bloggers blog, multiple contributors, multiple contributors blog, Web Design, Webvisions, webvisions2011, wordpress, wordpress advice, wordpress development, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Plugins, WordPress research, WordPress site development, WordPress Theme designs, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wv11, wv2011 |
April 11, 2011 – 12:30 pm
I say this every year, and thank goodness a few people listen and change their lives. Here goes one more time: If you do anything this year to change your business, go to Successful Online Business Conference (SOBCon). This year we’re celebrating the fifth year of SOBCon, the life changing business event for bloggers, web […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, Blogging News, WordPress, WordPress News
| Tags: chicago, conference, event, sobcon, social media, successful online business, wordpress, WordPress News |
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 […]