I wanted to increase the length of my site search box on my Thesis Theme. The stock, out of the box site search box is rather small in width and looks kind of silly compared to everything else around it. It is pretty easy to do - just put this code in the custom.css file on your Thesis Theme. You can make color, size and other adjustments to customize it for your own application. .custom .search_form .text_input { … [Read more...]
Facebook Apps Directory Shut Down
July 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I have been trying to find the Facebook App Directory this week on every time I tried there was a message that the page was not found. At first I thought I was just missing something but after a couple more tries with no results I started looking for what the problem was. Well, I found out why. Facebook has shut down the App Directory. Here is the announcement from the Facebook directory announcing the change. … [Read more...]
How I Have Kept My Google Gmail Clean This Year
July 15, 2011 By 4 Comments
How I Cleaned Out Over 4000 Emails From My Gmail Inbox About 6 months ago, or maybe longer, you know how time flies, I wrote a post about how I cleaned out my Gmail inbox that had accumulated something like 4000 + emails. It was ridiculous, just one more area of my life that was cluttered. Do you know what I mean??? What I did at the end of 2010 is get this little book that has changed my life - now it hasn't created a whole … [Read more...]
Why Bloggers Need To Focus On List Building In the 21st Century
May 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Why do you need to have an email list when you have Facebook and Twitter? Isn't Email - Old School? I am sure you have heard - "The money is in the list" - Well - it still is, even with Social Media capturing so much of the limelight. To learn why and how I spent less then $10 on this gem of a must-have e-book - List Building For Bloggers. There is an amazing amount of up to the minute concepts, ideas and … [Read more...]
31 Days To Building A Rocking List – Day 2
May 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The next step in the 31 day challenge is to create an awesome Freebie to offer as an incentive to joining your list. In my case I had already done this and I know this is why I was getting good results on my opt in to the list. To let you know what list I am talking about it is the Free Fan Page Templates list. You can check it out here and you can see the Fan Page on this website that is associated with that … [Read more...]
Preparing For A Successful Groupon Campaign – Part 2 – The Results
April 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I wanted to do a follow up on the Groupon campaign we ran at the Muay Thai Gym I am involved in a few weeks ago. If you haven't read the article about how I was preparing for the Groupon you will want to do a quick read before going on with this article. In that article I talk about some things I was doing on and off line to prepare for the Groupon. You will find that article here. Preparing For A … [Read more...]
QR Codes – Do You Have Yours Yet?
April 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
I have been spending some time lately looking into the whole QR Code movement. I have seen them more and more and last week I was on a brand new Marta Bus here in Atlanta (Marta is the name of the mass transit system in Atlanta) and saw a QR code sticker on the inside of the bus. It furthered my curiousity and then I received an email this last week about a QR Code Generator so I dove into the learning process. As it turns out … [Read more...]