Technical

Setting up a Gallery with WordPress

Simply put: People like snooping on others. That means that people love looking at pictures online. For that reason, an image gallery can be a worthy edition to a blog (or any site for that matter). Obviously, the site needs to be suitable for such a thing, and you need to pay some attention to [...]

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Mysterious Theme Switcheroo

Apparently, sometimes WordPress can kick your ass. Or so it seems. Late last week and Saturday, I put together a new theme for WebbyOnline which (hopefully) you are viewing right now. My reason for the design change is twofold: The old one was really basic looking The old one listed comments along the side of [...]

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Exporting USPS Orders From X-Cart to Endicia

I mentioned in the last edition of the WebbyOnline Newsletter that I was giving Endicia a try. Endicia is a service with an accompying program called Dazzle that allows quick usage of the United States Portal Service. It can be used for preparing your business mailings, but I am interested in using it to automate [...]

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What the Hell is Web 2.0 Anyway?

I found this video over on TechCrunch. It’s a nice compilation of interview snippets of internet leaders discussing what Web 2.0 actually is. I thought it was pretty interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcIDhJsOl0A

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FeedBlitz’s Position on SPAM

I recently announced to my Tip of the Day mailing list that I was going to be converting the list over to FeedBlitz. I had one of my subscribers email me saying I was violating my privacy policy and that FeedBlitz is a “known spammer”. I have found nothing indicating FeedBlitz was a known spammer, [...]

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My Favorite Web Services

Working on the internet means that I’m online all the time. Or at least it seems that way. The saving grace is that I am online with a purpose, not just wasting time surfing Myspace. Being that I use the internet to serve an end, I am always looking for web-based services that can make [...]

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Another Good PHP Email Application

As a quick followup to the last post, I have since come across another PHP-powered software package for running an email list locally from my server. That package is oemPro, from octeth Technologies. It runs a little more expensive than 1-2-All ($268 versus $189). It seems to have all the capability I would need, however. [...]

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Search For Email Mailing List Solution

I have spent several hours last night and this morning investigating email list services. Since one of the founding philosophies of this site is that you can learn by what I am doing, I thought I would post where this search stands. My situation is this: I have a large mailing list over on PCMech. [...]

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Increase Online Sales by Reducing Customer Anxiety – The Scientific Approach

This afternoon I attended the web seminar mentioned in the previous blog post. The seminar was put on by Marketing Experiments Journal, a very professional outfit that takes the science of online marketing to levels you would normally expect from a college course. The subject of the seminar was how to decrease customer anxiety levels [...]

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7 Ways to Increase Site Conversion

A couple days I got an email from Marketing Experiments Journal notifying me of a free Webinar they are hosting Wednesday, January 24th at 4PM EST. The topic? Topic: Site design tested: 7 ways to increase site conversion by reducing Customer Anxiety Does matching your site’s appearance to the expectations and preconceptions of your customer [...]

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