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Installing WordPress is easy and just a 5 minute job, though after the installation is over there are other things that you will have to do, if you want the most out of your blog. If you keep the following WordPress tips as a checklist then you will surely go on a right path. These WordPress tips are extremely helpful for starting a new blog.
Organize your authors and alter the admin password
When you get started with WordPress, you are allotted a password, which apparently you will never ever remember. Therefore, change the password to something that you can remember. Go to the User Panel and customize your settings, here you can also add other blog authors.
Change the Permalinks
The default URL of the articles will appear like www. Yourname. com/?p=243. This is a bad URL structure and will make no sense to the readers. You can change the URL and include the blog posts keyword in the URL. This will be a good structure for SEO and the readers will appreciate it. Do the following to change your permalinks:
• Click on the settings and then click on Permalinks
• Go to ‘Common Settings’ and then click on ‘Common Structure’
• Type %name of post%/ in the given area
• Or you can also add category in your URL like,
Speed kills. In the case of website usability, the lack of speed kills. Many
have erroneously assumed the advent of high speed internet connections would
make website performance optimization irrelevant. On the contrary, it seems as
internet connection speeds increase, users simply become more impatient and
demand faster browsing. Below, I’ve gathered some simple (and advanced) ways to
speed up your site.
Image Optimizing Tips:
Compress .jpg and .gif images: If you use Photoshop, always use the “Save for Web” feature. If you don’t have access to PS, there’s a ton of free image compressing freeware out there.
Compress or eliminate unnecessary Flash elements: In my opinion, flash is over-rated, slow, and buggy. It has it’s benefits, but make sure you don’t rely on it for navigation or other necessary site elements.
Don’t Resize Images within HTML: Don’t use the width or height attribute in the IMG tag to resize larger options. For example, if you resize an image that was originally 300 x 300 to 100 x 100, the user still has to download the full size one. Instead, use thumbnails.
Specify Image Dimensions: Don’t leave the width or height attributes blank. By doing so, you’ll slow down the browser rendering of the page, since it doesn’t know how much space to give for each image.
Slice Your Images: Slicing doesn’t actually reduce image size (in fact, it increases the overall size). However, it does increase the apparent load time by making each slice appear one at a time rather than one big image popping up after it downloads.
Avoid Too Many Slices: Don’t use too much of a good thing. As mentioned above, each slice actually increases the total size. I would recommend using no more than 4 slices, unless you are dealing with a huge image.
Coding Tips
Use CSS instead of Images: Cascading style sheets can do more than you think. Many sites make effective use of CSS
formatting and eliminate the need for excessive images. Even effective brand logos can be created with CSS. CSS Zen Garden has some examples of creative use of CSS.
Convert from Table to CSS based layout: Tables are ok for displaying data in columns and rows, but is grossly inefficient for designing web page layouts. By using DIV tags with CSS, you can cleanup your code extensively, which will reduce page load time and also offer SEO benefits.
Use External Style Sheets: Rather than formatting through embedded inline styles in pages or html elements, reference an external css files that the entire site can reference. The browser will cache this page on the first visit, so it won’t need to download it repeatedly.
Use External Javascript: Similar to above, put all of your JavaScript functions in an external file for caching benefits.
Remove Unnecessary White Space in HTML: Surprisingly,
white space hogs a lot of disk space.
Use Shorthand CSS: Instead of putting each CSS attribute on its own line, use shorthand CSS to prevent extra line breaks in your external CSS file.
Use CSS Images instead of IMG tag: An easy way to speed up the rendering of an image is to simply call as a background of a div tag.
Use Relative Links: Removing the ” http://yoururl ” from the beginning of every link will shed some weight. Just be careful not to allow people to jump back and forth between secure and insecure pages, which will generate one of those annoying “insecure items” errors in the
browser.
Specify the DocType: Pages that have the DocType specified tend to load faster than those that don’t.
Server & Database Tips
Reduce Http requests from other sites: Try to eliminate connecting to other servers to
retrieve images, audio, or video. Each http:// connection only slows things down.
Don’t Use Https://: Don’t use secure pages if you don’t have to. Connecting through secure http is about 3 times slower than regular http. Obviously, your checkout process needs to be secure, but your product pages most likely do not. In addition, make sure your navigation doesn’t use relative links which forces users to flip flop between secure and non-secure pages.
Upgrade your Web Server: Just like that old PC you bought 5 years ago, web servers can go down hill and become outdated.
Use Gzip Compression to Reduce HTML Size: Gzip is great for compressing html code, however it does nothing for images, flash, or other embedded files. Many open source programs such as WordPress and Joomla already support it.
Upgrade Server Memory: A boost in memory resources on your server can reduce processing time and greatly increase performance.
Upgrade your Database Server Hard Drive: The faster your server’s hard drive is able to access data, the faster it can serve up files. A fast hard drive is especially important for your database server.
Separate Content and Database Servers: If you have a high traffic, database driven website, you can benefit by placing your content on one server and your database on another. In addition to the speed benefits, it is more secure.
Other Tips
Loading Progress Indicators: By letting users know that you are processing their request, you can assuage their impatient fears. This won’t necessarily speed things up, but it will update them on the progress.
Use AJAX instead of Page Refreshes: Interacting with a web page is far different than interacting with your computer OS. Imagine if Windows XP had to refresh the whole screen ever time you perform an action like websites do? In the next few years, we will probably see more adoption of AJAX technology, which will make page refreshing
unnecessary.
Reduce Size & Number of Cookies: Each time a browser makes a request, cookies must be transmitted. Keep an eye on the total number and size of the cookies your site uses.
Fore more
E-commerce optimization tips, please visit the
Palmer Website Usability blog.
We all need to apply effective affiliate marketing strategies to succeed in becoming super affiliates. There are many products out there that claim to teach you powerful affiliate marketing tips and methods to earn bigger commissions; but before you invest on any resources, you must be aware of 3 vital affiliate marketing tips for maximum success.
In this article, I’m going to be revealing to you for FREE, the three things you must do to succeed in your affiliate marketing business. This means that if you do these things, you will succeed in your business; but if you don’t do them, your chances of success are small.
Here they are:
Affiliate Marketing Tip # 1: Build Your Own Website
The number one mistake most affiliates make is that they don’t build their own website. They promote the affiliate links they are given directly. That is a likely path to failure.
It is important to build your own website. Be it for review purposes or just a squeeze page. You have more chances to succeed on the long term with your website than without your own website.
Even if you don’t have the funds to invest in a website, create a blog using blogger.com or wordpress.com.
Affiliate Marketing Tip # 2: Promote Continuously
I’ve come across a lot of affiliate marketers who sign up to an affiliate program and just leave it without promoting. If you are like that, you can never make money as an affiliate.
Affiliate marketing, just like other forms of making money online, requires constant promotion. You have to regularly promote your affiliate campaigns using the methods you know if you want to establish a lasting affiliate business.
Affiliate Marketing Tip # 3: Build Your List
If you’re not new to Internet marketing, you would have heard the statement “The Money Is In The List”. It’s very true. If you have a responsive opt in email list, your affiliate marketing campaigns will surely succeed.
An opt-in list is a database of names and email addresses of people that have asked for more information from you. Their details are filed in an autoresponder.
When you have such a list, all you need to do is to send emails to them promoting relevant offers. You no longer need to spend money on promotion. This is what the big Internet marketers do. They have their own loyal list of subscribers they can turn to over and over again. Reliable autoresponders include aweber.com and getresponse.com.
Make sure you start building your own opt in email list to increase your chances of making a “killing” with your affiliate marketing campaigns. Following these affiliate marketing tips will increase your chances of affiliate marketing success tenfold.
Have a church website you want to improve upon? If you’re looking for web hosting we’re assuming you already have a cool Christian site and you just need a host server. As a Christian church planter and online businessman, there are several church web hosting tips I’d like to offer that may increase your attendance and ministry outreach while saving you money.”
It’s better to give than receive except when you’re choosing a web hosting plan. So think twice before choosing a church web hosting company over a secular web host. Why? Am I speaking blasphemy? No, I’m not and the simple reasons for this should be the reasons you should have for choosing “church web hosting”: Bang for the buck, features (like podcasting, space, etc.) and the bottom line cost involved. The sad fact of the matter is church web hosting or christian web hosting comanies can’t compare or compete with the large secular web hosting companies out there. Why go to the mom and pop store with little choices when there’s a Walmart down the street with more choices and better prices? Enough said. By the way, how do I know all this? I’ve been there and done that.
Alright, so you didn’t listen to my advice and now have “church web hosting?” Do me a favor for your own church and spiritual wellbeing. Please don’t build your Christian web site through the church web hosting company you are using. Why? In a nutshell you’ll be stuck with them if you don’t like them and secondly, most of these church web hosting sites and other free church web hosting firms who offer all in one deals (they will host and build your site) drain your own search engine page rank and popularity by linking their domain on your pages. believe me you don’t want or need this. Remember the whole reason you want a web presence id to publicize your church or ministry.
So how do we get out of this dilemma? my suggestion is to do what I’ve done with my Christian Singles site. I didn’t know squat about any tech stuff at the time. All I knew was I wanted to find a service where I wouldn’t have to know web designing but that I could build a site that would reach out to folks without spending an arm and a leg. Today, Christian Dating Service Plus receives over 1.5 million hits per month and is out competing huge sites like eHarmony for prime keywords like Christian Dating Service. All this and quite frankly I’m pretty much a technological idiot.
So how did I do this? The same way I suggest you can: Use WordPress blogging for your church by signing up with an affordable web hosting company you can use for anywhere between 4 -8 dollars per month. Sounds good? These kind of web hosts are not “Christian” per se, but they have FREE church templates and step by step web builder tools that make putting up your site a fun and easy adventure. By the way, if you are interesting in using a blog like WordPress for your church, you can download this blogging software for free as well. it’s real easy to use and I cannot say enough about it. one more note. If you are a church ministry and you need help, just contact us at resource contact listed below.
Women find it really romantic when their man go out of there way (and of their comfort zone) to purchase them a nice piece of sensual lingerie. They understand how much effort a man need to put in to but them such an intimate gift, and they really do appreciate it. It is also a great way to show your partner that she turns you on and that you like when she feels hot and sexy for you.
1. Remember that you are buying it for HER!!!
As much as you will enjoy seeing her wearing this new piece of lingerie, you have to keep in mind that you are buying it for her! You therefore need to choose something that she will be comfortable wearing and that reflects her personality.
She may be flirty, athletic, feminine, cozy, sexy or romantic. Usually her clothes will reflect that, and you can mirror this to her lingerie. Please also take into consideration how daring she is when it comes to sexy lingerie. All men would love to see their women in skimpy lingerie, but if she doesn’t, your gift will have the opposite effect than the one wished for. It is OK to go for something on the wilder side than usual, but make sure she will be comfortable enough to wear it and to truly feel sexy.
2. Know her size
Now is the time to dive in her intimates’ drawer. You have to get the sizing right even though how confusing it may be with all these letters and numbers. Bra size goes by 32, 34, 36, 38 while the cup size of the bra goes by A, B, C, D, DD, etc. Other items can be tagged either as Small, Medium, Large or Extra-Large, or just like the dress sizes 6, 8, 10, etc. Simply go through all her current favorite items, and take good note of the sizes for each. Make sure you put them back in their original spot or she may notice it.
The safest bets are baby dolls, gowns, chemises or one size items. Adjustable straps are a big plus, as she will be able to fight the garment to her body. Well-endowed women require extra support, so ensure there are under wired cups or built in support.
3. Select the right color(s) for her
While the style and the size are important, one other crucial ingredient is the color. Most women know what colors make them look fabulous. Dark colors, may it be the classic black, but also dark red, dark blue, or any other darker tones, tend to be slimming. Lighter colors seem to widen a bit, so ensure you understand the effect it might give.
If you keep the same color from head to toe, it will also help you look slimmer. Matching the colors to her hair and eye color will ensure a great fit. For tips on what colors usually suit most women, visit this article: http://lingerieangel.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/lingerie-colors/
4. Choose fabrics soft to the touch
Try to go for fabrics that are luxurious on the skin. You are always safe when buying lingerie made out of silk, satin or velvet, but that doesn’t mean other fabrics should be ignored. On the other hand, PVC and leather lingerie can be a bit more difficult. Given that they are not as flexible as we’d like, it can create bulges in some areas, and we’d all prefer to avoid that. Lycra and spandex can be really flattering for slim women. Other types of women should be a bit more careful though, as it can draw attention to bulges they have been wanting to hide. See-through fabric can also be a bit to daring for some women. One must feel comfortable with her body to accept to expose it even through the fabric. Just ensure the fabric used in the nipples area is not too rough, or that there is a lining underneath.
5. Consider what she may be self-conscious about
Most women are self-conscious about a part of their body. The goal here when buying her sensual lingerie is to enhance her best assets while drawing attention away from the parts she doesn’t like that much. This way, she will feel sexy and at her best. And this is what you want to go for.
For more details on what are the best lingerie styles for most body types, please read this previous article. It should be of great help to you.
http://lingerieangel.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/choosing-the-right-lingerie-for-your-body-style/
6. Avoid mass production lingerie stores
Big lingerie companies such as Victoria Secrets put a lot of money into their marketing, we everybody as seen their ads, catalogs, fashion shows and all. You have to beware though as the level of quality of their items will probably not be the one you were expecting. Women also like owning something special, that none of her friends have. This is another good reason you want to avoid Victoria Secret if you want to surprise her. Instead, we strongly suggest shopping at a small local lingerie shop. Not only will you have access to various renowned brands, but will also usually receive a higher level of service from these matter experts.
7. Don’t forget about the presentation
Women usually pay great attention to details. Once you have spent all this time researching and shopping for the best lingerie outfit, you should close it up with a nice gift wrapping. Most stores can even take care of that for a small fee. Think about it, if you play it right, you will get the unwrap your present after she unwrapped hers J
8. Keep the receipt
Another important thing: don’t forget to keep the receipt! If ever something doesn’t fit well, she may want to exchange it. Keep in mind though returned items must still bear their tags and be unworn. Due to health regulations, returns on panties, thongs and teddies may not be accepted. Ask the cashier if you are unsure.
9. Take your time and have fun!
I know. There is a lot of information. But trust me, it is all worth your while! Your woman is at her best when she feels hot and sexy, and you’ll be the one reaping the reward. Don’t rush things, take your time, and enjoy shopping for your loved one. It may be intimidating at first, but you’ll quickly get the hang of it. Make her feel special, and she will be more than happy to return the favor.