Category Archives: Beginner

Tips for the Unscrupulous Web Developer, Part 1: Code

By Chris | Published: September 17, 2009
Note: For those not as famil­iar with irony, this series of posts is intented to use humor to illus­trate impor­tant points about get­ting a web­site that works for them, and the poten­tial pit­falls along the way. —ed. One thing you fig­ure out pretty early on in the web biz: You don’t really have to know how to [...]
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It’s Not the Technology — It’s YOU, WITH The Technology

By Chris | Published: July 28, 2009
From the Real Sim­ple Suc­cess newsletter. photo credit: daniel9d In this week’s issue: It’s the tech­nol­ogy plus YOU that makes the tech­nol­ogy magic. Don’t for­get this, if you want to the tech­nol­ogy to work for you. My father came home with his first per­sonal com­puter in 1983. Time had just named the per­sonal com­puter its “Man of the [...]
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Web Nerd Terminology (CSS Tricks)

By Chris | Published: June 26, 2009
Want to know what your web designer is say­ing? CSS, HTML, server, URL, and many other terms nicely eplained here: http://css-tricks.com/web-nerd-terminology-explained/ addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realsimplesuccess.com%2Fweb-nerd-terminology-css-tricks%2F'; addthis_title = 'Web+Nerd+Terminology+%28CSS+Tricks%29'; addthis_pub = '';
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FaceBook Pages: What You Need to Know

By Chris | Published: June 26, 2009
This week: Face­Book pages I have been hav­ing a lot of luck lately with Face­Book pages, and have been cre­at­ing Face­Book pages for sev­eral dif­fer­ent clients. This is a good thing, because as Copy­Blog­ger pointed out recently (www.copyblogger.com/facebook-killing-seo/), Face­Book is really chang­ing the game. With report­edly up to 250 mil­lion peo­ple on the site now, you really have [...]
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WP Tip: Using the Quick Add Panel to Store Post Ideas

By Chris | Published: June 25, 2009
I have noticed that it’s very handy to use the Quick­Press panel in the Word­Press Dash­board (the page you land on when you login to Word­Press), to quickly add post ideas, as they come to me. I can then flesh them out later, and not lose them. It’s very quick to add things here, and you just [...]
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CSS Style Sheets: Why They Matter

By Chris | Published: June 8, 2009
photo credit: JB Lon­don For the aver­age con­sumer of web design ser­vices, the move from table-based lay­outs, to css– or tableless-layouts, prob­a­bly means lit­tle. How­ever, it’s impor­tant that you know the basics of what CSS Style Sheets mean, and why you want to find a web designer that uses them. This post is not designed to teach [...]
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