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February 2009

How To Add A Forum To Your Thesis Themed WordPress Blog

February 21, 2009

Do you want to add a forum to your WordPress blog that is sporting the Thesis theme? Here’s how! If you are using the Thesis WordPress Theme and want to add corresponding theme for forum software like phpBB, bbPress or Vbulletin this tutorial is for you. I stumbled across Chris Coyier’s excellent video that shows [...]

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How To Add The Google Friend Connect Social Bar To Your WordPress Website

February 19, 2009

Google Friend Connect released a new “Social Bar” in addition to the member and social gadgets. In my post How To Add Google Friend Connect to Your WordPress Blog I showed how you can add the members gadget and wall gadget to your WordPress sidebar using the WordPress Widgets capability. The New Social Bar

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New Google Maps View Shows Hundreds of Local Results

February 18, 2009

Google is providing an enhanced view of local searches in Google Maps. Now instead of providing just the top 10 local results, if you click on the map you’ll get potentially hundreds of results. The additional results show up as little circles on the map, and you can click them to get more information. This [...]

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WordPress for Small Business Websites Presentation at Saratoga Library

February 16, 2009

I’m excited to be presenting at the Saratoga Library on February 24 about a topic that is near and dear to my heart – WordPress for Small Business Websites. It will be primarily an introductory session about WordPress and how to use it to power a small business website. I’ll start off with a short [...]

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Announcing the Expand2Web SmallBiz WordPress Theme!

February 8, 2009
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In addition to using the Thesis WordPress Theme for some of my small business clients, I’ve been fine tuning another theme that I like to use based on the Chiropractor2Web WordPress Theme. This new theme is designed to work for any type of small business, and comes from a lot of experience building different types [...]

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Google Latitude = Location Based Commerce and Marketing

February 7, 2009
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John Battelle has a short and direct interpretation of what Google’s new Latitude offering means over on his blog. Google Latitude asks your for your phone number, and then when enough of your friends are doing it too, you can view their locations and status messages on your mobile device or your computer. As John [...]

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