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Help! My WordPress Blog/Website is stuck in Maintenance Mode

Do you have a recent backup of your WordPress site including both the database and the files? Hope so because you might need it. Occasionally, a theme or plugin installation/update fails and your site can end up stuck in Maintenance… Continue Reading →

Text between square brackets disappears in WordPress

One of the challenges you may occasionally have is how to make [shortcodes] or other text in square brackets appear in the website. The reason the text doesn’t show up is because WordPress interprets text in square brackets as special… Continue Reading →

Be more productive in Word with Keyboard Shortcuts

Statistics show that people who use keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse to click on toolbar or ribbon icons are not just a little more productive but much more productive. Keyboard Shortcuts for Microsoft Products such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint,… Continue Reading →

Useful WCAG 2.0 Tools and Online Resources

This is a list of free web development tools and resources to help you ensure accessibility on your  website, regardless of whether or not you decide to take it all the way to WCAG 2.0, Section 508 or your countries favourite flavour… Continue Reading →

WCAG 2.0 HTML Tips

Multilingual Website: If your website had content in more than one language, be sure to identify the default language of the page using the HTML tag itself. Example: <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”fr” lang=”fr”> Mixed Language in Same Page: If you have… Continue Reading →

An alternative to WCAG 2.0 Compliance in Just 15 Minutes a Day

Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses don’t always have the financial resources to revamp their whole website to implement WCAG 2.0 Level AA standards. While compliance can take a fair amount of knowledge and effort, there are things that you can do on… Continue Reading →

WCAG 2.0 – The 4 POUR Principles and 12 Guidelines

Over the past few years, the issue of accessibility on the web has been heating up. Companies all around the world are being sued because their website is not accessible to everyone. In 2009, the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C),… Continue Reading →

10 Simple Content Creation Strategies

Where do you get your inspiration when writing articles for your newsletter, your blog or even for publication on websites? Here are a few of my favourite content creation strategies I use when the proverbial idea well runs dry. Have you… Continue Reading →

Creating a Link in WebsiteBaker

Wondering how to create a link in Website Baker? It’s as easy as 1-2-3-4: Copy the address you want people to go to when you click the link. Log in to the administrator side of your Website Baker site and edit the page… Continue Reading →

Creating Your Profile Photo for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+

You’ve decided to join the Social Media revolution — Welcome dear friend! So how do you make a profile photo that will look good? The secret is to ALWAYS work with a copy of the original photo! Photography & Cropping Quick… Continue Reading →

Increasing Traffic to Your Website

So, you’ve got your shiny new website up. Congratulations! However the analytics show that almost nobody is visiting your website. You are monitoring traffic to your website, aren’t you? If not, add Google Analytics to your website. If you aren’t… Continue Reading →

Adding a Favicon to Your Website

Favicons are icons that appear next to the address in most web browsers and next to the bookmarks/favorites in the link bar and in your list of bookmarks or favourites. While many browsers will automatically look for a file called… Continue Reading →

Uploading a File and Creating a Link in WebsiteBaker

Want to make a PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, MP3 audio file, MP4 video file or other type of file available for download on your WebsiteBaker website though a link? The good news is that the process is the same for almost any type of… Continue Reading →

Best Free Tools to Build Your Own Personal or Small Business Website

Interested in developing your own web site? Here is a list of useful free resources and tools that recommend to help get you started: Content Management System (CMS): Any easy to use website starts with a friendly CMS. WordPress powers more… Continue Reading →

Creating Groups in MailChimp

If you don’t already have a MailChimp account and at least one list setup, go through Step-by-Step to Your First Email Campaign first. How do you determine who in your mailing list has signed up for what? What if you only want… Continue Reading →

Assessments

Here are a few assessments you can take for free. If you find yourself wondering what to do with the results, contact a professional life coach for assistance. 6 Human Needs Assessment The test, scoring, survey and interpretation information is available… Continue Reading →

Using CSS to Create Columns

Here is a simple technique to create as many parallel columns as you need. Unlike most solutions, this one works equally well with any number of columns as long as you can divide 100 by the number of equal columns… Continue Reading →

Creating HTML Inline Forms

Here is an HTML/CSS example of how to create an inline form: LOGIN: <form action=”#” method=”get” id=”login” style=”display:inline!important;”> <label for=’User’>User:</label> <input type=’text’ name=’User’ id=’User’> <label for=’password’>Password:</label><input type=’password’ name=’password’ id=’password’> <input type=”submit” name=”log” id=”log” value=”Login” /></form> [?] The result is: LOGIN:… Continue Reading →

MailChimp – Step-by-Step to Your First Email Campaign

MailChimp is a popular email campaign services, especially for people starting up because you can use it for free for up to 2,000 subscribers to send out a total of 12,000 emails per month. It has all the features you’ll likely… Continue Reading →

Creating a PayPal Payment Web Form

Are you an Entrepreneur, Web Developer, Consultant, General Contractor, or anyone with clients to bill? As long as your invoices don’t total $2,000 or more, you can take PayPal payments on your website. There are several ways you could do this:… Continue Reading →

Our Favourite WordPress Add-ons

What follows is a list of add-ons we have either used ourselves on our own websites, were recommended to us or have implemented for our clients. As these are often developed and supported by a user community with limited resources,… Continue Reading →

Useful Javascript Snippets

Here is a list of useful Javascripts to help you with your website. Please note that some of these may require that you provide attibution (credit) to the original owner of the tools. Always read the license and understand the… Continue Reading →

Website BakerUsers Manual

Note: This manual and its accompanying materials are not official documentation for any application herein listed. The manual has been developed solely as a convenience our clients. We shall not be held responsible for any problems whatsoever arising from use… Continue Reading →

WebsiteBaker Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

The following information applies to websites created by TNG Consulting Inc. only. Some features may be different if your site was created by a different web developer or if you did it yourself. How can I turn off Captcha? I… Continue Reading →

User Notes for WebsiteBaker

The following information applies to websites created by TNG Consulting Inc. only. Some features may be different if your site was created by a different web developer or you did it yourself. User Notes Congratulations on choosing Website Baker as… Continue Reading →

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