Why I’m dumping AdBrite

Until recently, I had AdBrite running on a couple of my sites and was pleased with the results. Then I set up a new AdBrite slot on two of the sites – a leaderboard. I put the code into my website, and my website broke. Why? Because AdBrite sticks a 14px graphic at the end [...]

WordPress 2.9 “missed schedule” future posts error

As always, the new version of WordPress works great on most servers, but not on some others. One common issue is scheduled posts failing to post. If you look in your Edit screen, they’ll say in orange “Missed Schedule.” You may be able to fix them on the fly by using Quick Edit (not regular [...]

How to merge blogs together

Maybe you will never, ever decide to merge the posts from one of your WordPress blogs into another. But if you do, as I once did, you might find this list of instructions helpful. Terminology check: “merging” blog refers to the blog that’s going to have all its posts moved into another one, and the [...]

The market value of authenticity

I’ve been reading Seth Godin’s latest free PDF book, What Matters Now. It’s a very short read, but it makes you think. What it got me thinking about is authenticity, which is generally the last think you think of as having any place in the marketing world. Marketing is about lies, right? It’s about convincing [...]

Test your websites for accessibility

Andy Beal recently talked about making sure websites are accessible to people with vision or hearing difficulty, and gave a very important reason – beyond “it’s the right thing to do” – why webmasters should care: That is 1 in 5 Americans cannot experience the web without the assistance of some form of accessibility enhancement. [...]

Automatically optimize WordPress images with Smush It

One way to make your sites load faster is to reduce the size of your graphic files as much as you can without losing image quality. SmushIt is a Yahoo service that does this for you.