Susan of Asher PR sent us a link to this very timely Twitter Tips for WordPress post on Smashing Magazine’s website. Smashing Magazine is one of my favorite sites for design tips and inspiration. Another one of our clients, Global Girl has really taken off Twittering. Global Girl calls frequently for tips on becoming a Twitter power user and when she found Tweetdeck, she was totally hooked. After she gets a hold of these tips, we are going to have to do an intervention on her or else just start referring people to her for tips and tricks.|
This article will get anyone off to a great start using their blog with Twitter to its best advantage.The hacks to the code maybe a little risky for some beginners. So beginners, if you embark on hacks that involve changing code in your PHP files, just be sure to copy the content of the original file into a text editor first, in case something goes wrong. Then if you make a change and your site blows up you can simply add the original file back and try again. It is really pretty easy.
I am anxious to test out the Twit This and the Twit It Up WordPress plugins. I have been meaning to add a “Twitter This” link on our posts, so this will get one more item off of my to do list. Stay tuned for which one I think works better! And let us know if you try some of these tips which you found useful and why. Happy Twittering.
Dene thinks not having a favicon on a website is the on-line version of your bra strap hanging out when you’ve gone to the trouble of dressing up and yet you forget to do the small things that matter. Maybe it is more like forgetting to put on your jewelry. But anyway we have noticed that lots of sites don’t have them! We are appalled because it is makes your site look unfinished.
Some of you may not know what a favicon is, and you may even have one but didn’t know it had a name. A favicon (combo of Favorite and Icon) is a small, 16×16 image that is shown inside the browser’s location bar and bookmark menu when your website is called up. It is a good way to brand your site and increase its’ prominence in your visitor’s bookmark menu.
Creating a favicon is fairly straightforward. You select and send us a picture, logo or other graphic (of any size / resolution – but remember it ends up being tiny!). You can also just let us grab one from your site. When you send it give us your website’s hosting information. We can make a fixed favicon or we can also do animated favicons. You can see an example on our site and also on the Asher PR site. We then upload the image it to your site through FTP and put a couple of lines of code in your website’s header file.
In order to do that we will need the name of the web hosting company, your user name and your password. If you don’t feel comfortable doing that you can call your hosting company and have them walk you through adding New Tricks as a temporary user, which will give us temporary access that you can eliminate later. We charge 100.00 to make and install a static favicon on your site and 125.00 for one that is animated. Such a deal.
Don’t you worry, the chicks at New Tricks will make sure your website’s bra strap is not hanging out.
Project Highlights :
Susan Asher of Asher PR obtains publicity locally and nationally in newspapers, magazines, trades, online media, and on radio and TV. Susan has been able to get her clients on “The Tonight Show,” “ABC News Now,” on CNN and the FOX News Network. Having worked in newspaper and radio and written for numerous publications, Susan Asher knows how to tell a story to make the news. When Susan came to us she had a website and a blog. She was brave enough to… [click to continue…]
