How long are your paragraphs? Have you measured them lately? One of the telling differences between traditional writing and writing for the web is the length of the paragraph. Look at the example below. Which is easier to read? On the left, the paragraphs are huge, long blocks of text. On the right, the paragraphs […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
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How many words should you put into a link? Is there a rule? There isn’t a rule but there are good standards and practices. These state that two words should be the minimum, and only enough words to compel someone to click through to the linked source. The words must also imply the link’s destination […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: anchor text, blog exercises, Blogging Tips, html, html tags, link guidelines, links, readability, web standards, web writing, writers guidelines, writing for the web, writing guidelines |
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
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Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, Blogging Tips, Web Design, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing
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December 2, 2012 – 3:36 pm
WordPress.com users were greeted with a new Media Manager over the weekend. This is the new media uploader coming in WordPress 3.5 when it releases December 5, 2012. For most of us, this is a long-awaited, dream come true. The clunky WordPress Image Uploader is gone, replaced with one more visual and easy-to-use. The announcement […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: audio, image management, images, mangaing images, media, media manger, media uploader, multimedia, playlist editor, video, wordpress images, wordpress media, wordpress media manager, WordPress News, wordpress playlist, wordpress upgrade, wordpress uypdate |
August 23, 2011 – 10:05 pm
One of the most unappreciated widgets among the WordPress Widget collection is the Text Widget. There are many Widgets that come with WordPress, and many more you can add with Widget WordPress Plugins. The Text Widget is not a WordPress Plugin, it comes with the basic installation of WordPress and WordPress.com. The Text Widget helps […]
If you are one of the thousands suffering constant crashes from the June update of Mozilla Firefox 5, realize you are not alone. Literally thousands have reported on Firefox 5 crashing across all platforms, including Windows and Mac. UPDATE: The crashes were clearly not a result of problems with Firefox but with Adobe Flash. Crashes […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging News, Blogging Tips, Web Browsers, Web Wise
| Tags: browsers, chrome, download firefox, firefox, firefox 5, firefox 5 crashes, firefox crash, firefox crashes, google chrome, how to fix firefox, old versions of firefox, web browser |
In this series on managing multiple bloggers in WordPress, I’ve covered how to showcase the authors within the WordPress Theme design, talked about how to manage author content within WordPress to help you see all the ways you can promote your authors within the design and content management system, and started showing you code and […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips
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Social Media for Crafters: Covering the Basics of the Social Web by Lorelle VanFossen (yep, that’s me!), has been a true labor of love, meeting the two joys in my life, blogging and social media with crafting. It is available as a PDF ebook. The book includes the basics of social media designed specifically with […]
The news is finally out. Yes, I just released a new ebook, Social Media for Crafters: Covering the Basics of the Social Web. It’s for sale in the WordCast Store right now and sells for USD $14.95 but you, too, can get this fantastic pdf ebook for the AMAZING low price of 99 cents during […]
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Posted in Blog Babble, Blogging, Blogging Tips, WordPress News, Writing
| Tags: book, ebook, facebook, forums, social media, social media for crafters, social networks, twitter |
December 30, 2010 – 1:05 pm
In “5 Ways to Rid Complacency From Your Blog” on Daily Blog Tips, Bob Bessette writes about how to mix things up in the new year on your blog: If you’ve owned a blog for a while there’s a good chance that complacency may have already set in. Dictionary.com defines complacency as “a feeling of […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging, Blogging Tips, Writing
| Tags: blog writing, communication, how to write, interactivity, sharing, social media, social web, Writing, writing a blog |
August 21, 2008 – 5:46 pm
I’ve uploaded my program from WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco to SlideShare and showcased it below. I talked about how important it is that we push WordPress as far as possible, even to the breaking point, to make sure it will work across all operating systems, all hosts, all browsers, all setups – in every […]
Matt Mullenweg spoke out recently on the recent bogus “SecurityFocus SQL Injection” fear spreading across the web. There is a huge perception today that WordPress is a security risk. This is not true. As Matt discussed, fears of SQL server vulnerabilities and other security issues have gotten out of control, for WordPress as well as […]
Get ready for Friday. Lorelle and Jeffro2pt0 will duke it out on the WordPress Weekly Show! Due to a variety of unfortunate circumstances, including tornadoes, last week’s WordPress Weekly live show was rescheduled to this Friday, April 18, 2008, with myself and host, Jeffro2pt0. You have no excuses now to join us Friday at 9PM […]
January 22, 2008 – 4:35 am
I blog on many different blogs, some of them mine. Each seems to be on it’s own time clock, including some of my blogs. For instance, I write for the Blog Herald and their time is set for the Philippines. On this blog, Lorelle on WordPress, the time was set for US East Coast Time […]
September 30, 2007 – 2:23 pm
I recently ran across a blog that was stuffed with . You know, those yellow smiling faces that grin, wink, blink and snarl at you from many blog posts? They are called emoticons by their proper term, but also known as smilies or smileys. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don’t, but they certainly help […]
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