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Web Surf Anonymously: With a Proxy Service

Privacy is Golden–and in short supply Privacy is in short supply in our modern world, especially in the online world where your keystrokes are being watched, and your every online move is being tracked.  Mostly so someone can sell something to you.  But increasingly because Big Brother wants to know if you’ve been naughty or…

WordPress Basics: Tutorials: Formatting Posts & Pages

In ways similar to what you might do in word processing, formatting your text is a way to make certain elements stand out from the rest. It also breaks up blocks of text to make it easier to read and follow along with the gist of the content. In WordPress you can add various familiar…

WordPress Basics: Tutorials: Adding images to Posts & Pages

WordPress Posts come alive when they have images, photos or graphics as part of their display. A bit of eye candy along with the words. WordPress makes it relatively simple to add an image to a post or page by using the Media Library. Here is a video tutorial that shows you how to add…

WordPress Basics-Tutorials: Write and Publish a Post

Posts constitute the core of a WordPress blog, AKA the “Loop”. Pages tend to be static entities, e.g Home page, About page, etc. Pages hold content that rarely changes. Posts, on the other hand, change frequently. Posts are time-oriented and generally consist of content that a is timely and “newsy.” In most blog or blog-like…

WordPress Basics-Tutorials: Posts vs. Pages

Most of the time you will only be publishing Posts (leave the Pages to your designer). That said, Posts and Pages are very similar as far as publishing technique goes. Here is a video tutorial that explains the differences between the two.

They’re Watching You: A Search Engine that Maintains Your Privacy in the Internet Age

Google is Tracking Your Every Move As a Web designer, I spend a LOT of time on the Web. As a curious person, I spend a LOT of time using search engines.  But as a person who values my privacy, it pains me to know how my daily activities might be used against me. I…

WordPress Basics-Tutorials: The Dashboard

With this video, you will learn to find your way around the WordPress Dashboard. It’s Control Central, the place where you can write a post, upload a graphic or video like this one. It’s where you can monitor your comments and discussion and much more.