A blog is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.
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What Is WordPress
WordPress is a CMS (content management system) based on PHP and MySQL. Put simply WordPress is a website creation tool that is hosted on a webserver and is accessed trough a web-browser. WordPress is the easiest and most popular CMS in the world today.
Mailto Links
To create a Mailto link is pretty much like creating a regular link. Select the words you wish to be the link. In this case Email Me. Click the “Link Button”. Remove the “http://” and type “mailto: your email address”. Click “Add Link”.
Creating Secure Passwords Part II
A few months ago on the Security Now episode 303 on the TWiT podcast network Steve Gibson talked about a new way of thinking about passwords. Steve said entropy (lack of pattern or organization; disorder) was important but length was much more important. (As it turns out length does matter.) What this means is you can have passwords you can…
New Blogger
All of the Google products Gmail, Docs, Picasa Web, Google Voice are all changing for the better. Today I saw that Blogger the redheaded step child of Google has now gotten a major upgrade. The dashboard user interface is all different now but the best thing are the new themes. I changed on of my…
Want To Learn More
In this short course we have touched on the basics of how WordPress works. This by no means is everything that WordPress has to offer. We have not even gotten in to plugins because plugins aren’t supported on wordpress.com. If you host your own WordPress site you can use plugins that will give your site…
More Embedding
Just like you do with photos, audio and video you can embed many more rich media. You can embed charts, maps, calendars, documents and much more. Let’s get started by embedding some Google products… Photos in Picasa Web Album in Picasa Web Picasa slide show Youtube Videos Docs Maps Calendars
Good-N-Free Meetup 