Archer Creative | Multi-Media Marketers and Storytellers located in Birmingham, Alabama
Multi-Media Marketers and Storytellers located in Birmingham, Alabama
Last night, a glitch in Feedburner’s system filled our Twitter stream with tweets from bloggers concerned about their site feeds. Feedburner, a web feed (RSS) management tool, has been a valuable tool in the blogger’s toolbox for many years. A few years back, Google acquired it, made some changes, and then promptly stopped developing and [...]
WordPress 3.4, also called “Green”*, was released yesterday, June 13th, and it has some super cool upgrades, like this: https://twitter.com/Archer_Creative/status/213019863982145537 I was able to embed that Tweet onto this post by simply pasting the permalink of the Tweet into the post editor. Readers can ‘follow’, ‘reply’, ‘retweet’ etc without leaving the post. Some additional features: [...]
I recently had a discussion with a fellow web designer about images used on a client’s site. Her client contacted her after receiving a $1400 invoice from the image’s license holder, for unauthorized use of an image. He thought that because he had found the image on Google Images that it was free for him [...]
Recycling old blog posts is a great way to come up with new posts. But what if you want to explore something else. Or you’ve reworked all of your old posts? Don’t fret – you’ve still got plenty of options. Here are some of my favorite idea-joggers for those times when I’m, once again, staring [...]
When I started blogging, I had a million-and-one blog posts swirling around in my head at any given time. It seemed the ideas would never dry up. Fast-forward 4 years, and I found myself struggling to compose one good one a week. It may have been caused by the (false) notion that everything under the [...]
The countdown is on, and SOPA is expected to pass through the Senate on January 24th. (*UPDATE 1/19/2012 : Key Supporters of the bill have backed down after Wednesday’s protest) Tomorrow, January 18th, 2012, many of the most popular sites on the internet will be taking part in a ‘blackout’ of their sites to protest [...]
I recently had the pleasure of working with Cara, owner of Health, Home and Happiness on a redesign of her site. She was already set up on WordPress, but wanted a new look, along with some new functions to help organize and showcase her articles and recent posts, as well as her newsletter and ebooks. [...]
On July 4th, WordPress released their latest version: 3.2 (named “Gershwin“, in honor of the composer). Unless there is a security upgrade along with it, I usually wait a day or so to upgrade all of my sites, just to make sure nothing “breaks” because of it. We’ve all heard horror stories and rants on [...]
