Posts by Alamoxie Web Design
Quickly Add Images to Posts with PicturePaste
How to Paste Pictures into WordPress? I’m sure any WordPress web designer, at some point or other, gets frustrated with how long it takes to add pictures to a WordPress post. Take a screenshot. Save. Edit. Save again. Upload through the media library. True, it doesn’t take that long, but on the web seconds can make a difference. Who hasn’t wished we could throw the pictures directly into a WordPress post? PicturePaste Crops, Resizes, Slices and Dices PicturePaste is a useful program. Install it, run it, then just take a screenshot. The PicturePaste window automatically shows the image on the clipboard, and allows you to zoom in and out (changing the...
Read MoreSending Confirmation Emails with a Google Docs Form
I love Google Apps. Gmail, Google Docs, Google Voice–all brilliant, indispensable products in my opinion. Being able to create forms in Google Docs for quick polls and surveys is also very handy, but the extremely limited feature set has been frustrating to me. One surprising lack is that of being able to send a confirmation email to the user. Granted, not all forms necessarily even have a field for the user to enter their email. [Original post 6/18/11. Edited 10/29/11 to add HTML email to the example. Edited 4/21/12 to add more screenshots and correct “Triggers menu” to “Resources menu”.] With a quick script, you can rectify this and...
Read MoreCan My Small Business Have a Wikipedia Page?
Wikipedia links contain little in the way of search engine value, as they all contain the “nofollow” attribute and thus do no pass on PageRank, but having a highly respected site with a lot of traffic link to your isn’t a bad thing. But it can be more difficult than you think. Getting Your Own Wikipedia Page The Wikipedia FAQ is pretty clear: you can’t use Wikipedia to promote your business. Read through the detailed rules, but essentially, you shouldn’t be creating a page for your own business. Do people do it anyway? Yes, and typically the articles are quickly deleted–and the users are often banned from Wikipedia. Are there some...
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know When Choosing an Email Service
There are many mistakes people make when choosing what email provider to use. It’s very easy to get something good, so there’s no reason to suffer through the lower-quality options. Here are some tips on choosing what’s best for your email. Individual Email Accounts Many people use a “family” email account, or share an email account between two people. Please, please get separate email accounts. This makes life easier for everyone. If people want to talk to both of you, then they can address the email to both your addresses. Having combined accounts leads to confusion. Someone who networks with a Susan may be surprised to get an email from...
Read MoreRSS Graffiti Facebook App
Crosspost Your Blog Posts to Facebook The RSS Graffiti Facebook app is a great tool for any web designer–or even ordinary person–to have blog updates pushed out to your Facebook wall. In fact, you could have wall updates from any RSS feed… for example, you could have updates from a trusted source of industry news posted to your wall–but I believe the most common use would be to save you the effort of manually posting an update in multiple places. Instructions Go to the RSS Graffiti app (you can also search for the name of the application in Facebook). You’ll need to add RSS Graffiti to your Facebook profile, like any other Facebook app. But...
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