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Should you personally brand your blog?

You may believe your blog needs your name and face to gain trust. But this isn’t true for most blogs, and there are advantages to keeping it impersonal.

ICANN Domain Abuse Email Scam (also Domaincop, others)

I got an email today for one of my sites. I discovered an exciting little invisible iframe at the bottom that was, I’m sure, designed to infect my computer. I’m calling this one the ICANN Domain Abuse Email Scam.

Why I blog anonymously

Many moons ago when I started out, no one ever considered blogging under their real names. Here’s why you should feel absolutely free to blog anonymously.

How to Secure WordPress Blogs

You may want to bookmark this post, because I’m going to come back to it every few months and update anything that’s changed. In it, I’m going to talk about all the ways that hackers can get control of your WordPress blog, and then about many things you can do to secure Wordpress blogs.

How I became a full-time blogger

My journey to becoming a full-time blogger, probably in more detail than you ever wanted.

Does Google rate your site as mobile friendly?

Mobile has grown massively over the last few years, and it hasn’t plateaued yet. It’s critical to make sure your website is mobile-friendly – that is, easy to view and navigate on a tiny little phone – but how to go about that? Google is a fan of the responsive layout, which supposedly adjusts to

Cryptowall: how to protect your PC

I’ve been away for a while, and a big part of the reason was that for the first time in my 20 years online, I got a computer virus. This nasty bit of malware, Cryptowall 2.0, strolled right past ESET, my highly-rated antivirus and firewall (the Crypto viruses also beat Norton, Kapersky and most of

Why working for free doesn’t work

Earlier this week, a hula hoop performer told the story of being asked to perform at a $1000/plate event for Oprah Winfrey for free. The producers suggested that the exposure would be well worth her time and expenses in performing. The problem was, she’d obviously already gotten enough exposure to come to the attention of

Being a full-time blogger

Things have changed around here – again. I started this site about nine years ago (actually under a different domain name) as a journal of my struggles to learn everything I could about running websites. Then for the past few years I stopped maintaining this site for the most part because I was too busy

Genesis: How to place the post meta and info just on single pages

I’ve been working with the Genesis Framework for WordPress lately, and I recently discovered there are two ways to make Genesis display the post meta and info conditionally, and which method you need depends whether the theme is HTML5 or not. On most sites, I use excerpts on the front page, and most Genesis themes

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