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Add a Search Page to a WordPress Site Using Weaver II Theme

To create a search page for the Weaver II theme: Create a new page Set the title to Search or Search Website Set the Permalink to search Set the parent is set to (no parent) unless you want it to… Continue Reading →

Successful Business Support Rolodex

Here is a list of business resources that can help your business succeed: Free and Low Cost Business Cards — If you want to get yourself some business cards, visit www.vistaprint.ca and click on “Free Business Cards”. Choose and customize any of… Continue Reading →

How to Get a Custom URL for Your Facebook Timeline Page

When you create a Facebook page, you are automatically assigned a long and ugly URL made up of letters and numbers. Here are simple steps to customize your Facebook address so that it is short and sweet, not to mention easy to… Continue Reading →

Adding SSL Support to a WordPress Site

If you plan on taking payments or gathering any personal information beyond simple email address, or simply want to have a more secure access when administering your website, you’ll need to enable your site to work over SSL. This is… Continue Reading →

Get Google Verified Authorship for Your Website

Some people claim that getting getting Google Verified Authorship for your site can actually increase click throughs and even rakings. While I’m not sure about that, if there is even a chance that this is true, can you afford not… Continue Reading →

Troubleshooting WordPress

Here are a few WordPress plugins to help you troubleshoot your WordPress site. Memory Load Consumption and db size Usage — Indicates memory and db usage. Check to ensure you aren’t close to running out of memory on your site…. Continue Reading →

WCAG 2.0 – Compliant HTML Tables

Below are examples of WCAG 2.0 compliant HTML tables. Be sure not to duplicate the table Caption and Summary as both will be read by screen readers. Simple Tables (skip to Complex Table) Here is sample source code for creating a… Continue Reading →

What is Your Perception of the Economy?

It’s a very interesting question. Down in the U.S. and even in most parts of the world, the economy has taken a beating over the past several years. While not immune, according to the Invest in Canada Factsheet, this has… Continue Reading →

Windows Phone 7 (WP7) Tips

Windows 7 Phone is pretty cool. The tile based look and feel is very different from the it’s competitors. Unfortunately some of the most useful features are hard to find or completely missing. Here are some of the ones I… Continue Reading →

Your Computer is at Risk! Always Have a Recent Reliable Backup

Regardless of how many safeguards you have in place such as antivirus, firewall, anti-spam, malware protection, surge protectors, backup power supply (UPS), there is always something that can go wrong. Your computer could break down, laptops can be dropped and… Continue Reading →

Tips for Getting Started in Drupal

Manual Local Installation of Drupal Tip: If you are doing a local installation, use XAMPP. Event better, give Acquia Dev Desktop which comes with Drupal.  Note that Server2Go doesn’t work with Drupal out of the box. Download Drupal. Unzip in your htdocs… Continue Reading →

Bestest, fastest, easiest ways to proof your writing

If you write blogs, content for a website or even just status updates on social media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, readers of your content will consider this a reflection of who you are and the quality of… Continue Reading →

Excel Quick Tip: Toggle View Formulas

Did You Know? Pressing Ctrl ~  in Microsoft Excel to toggle the visibility of formulas in the worksheet cells. It is the equivalent of: Office 2003: Clicking Tools > Options > View Formulas checkbox Office 2007 & 2010: Clicking the Formulas ribbon… Continue Reading →

Add Terms and Conditions Checkbox to PayPal button

There are times when you will want your clients to read and accept terms and conditions before making a payment in PayPal. The great thing about the following approach is that it will work for just about any website, whether the site… Continue Reading →

How a Job Search is like Shopping

As many people know, the process of shopping (job search) involves knowing what you are looking for (position), how much you want to pay (salary) and going to stores (businesses) that sell things (jobs) you might be interested. They may or may not… Continue Reading →

Is it a good idea to connect in advance with a person who will be interviewing you?

I think it is a great idea. In fact, I suggest connecting with people by telephone and even try to meet with them to learn about them, their projects and the company in advance even before applying for a job,… Continue Reading →

Business Telephone Message Scripts

An effective voice mail message is actually a well crafted script. Although you will have to substitute certain words such as the name of the person, you can actually  create a script which comes across as confident. An effective script… Continue Reading →

Top 6 Business Card Design Mistakes

There are two points in time when your business card will be of most use to people you give it to: When you first give it to them. First impressions are an opportunity that people give you to make a… Continue Reading →

Changing Your Facebook Profile Photo

Changing your profile photo on Facebook is pretty easy but the option is a little hidden. Start by editing the photo. I’ve made some photo editing tips available to help you optimize the quality of your profile photo. Once you… Continue Reading →

Business Plan to get Financing

A good business plan should set out how much money you want and what you are going to do with it. Naturally, in order to be considered for a loan or a grant, the lender also needs feel safe about… Continue Reading →

Finding fun and play in your work

Anything you do can be fun and meaningful to you. It’s all a matter of how you look at it. Wayne Dyer says that when you change the way you look things, what you see changes and what you do… Continue Reading →

Hosting a live business event (courses, seminars, classes)

Check out your local library. Many offer space for free or for a small charge. For example, at the time of this writing, the local library here charges $75 for 4 hours on a pay-as-you-go for profit basis but will… Continue Reading →

Forms and assessments for coaches

Check out “Coach U’s Essential Coaching Tools: Your Complete Practice Resource” book. It includes over 500 pages of client-centered and coach-centered assessments, forms checklists, budgeting and organizational aids, tips as well as the essential marketing aids that every coach needs… Continue Reading →

How to find the woman of your dreams

Everyone has a need to feel loved but some people find it difficult to connect with others. It doesn’t help that in North American culture, women will often expect that men will ask them out. It may sound counter intuitive… Continue Reading →

Lorem Ipsum Sample Text

Hmmm. Looks like Michael’s gone off the deep end with this post…. As it turns out, this is actually a tool to help developers test during the development of websites and other applications. Sometimes you need to temporarily put information… Continue Reading →

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