I’s say this is one of the very first settings I edit after getting a new computer. Working with the mouse is critically important to a user’s sanity and if that mouse is too slow, too fast or all around annoying, the user might just go crazy. Today, I offer you a quick post that […]
Web
Find tutorials that have to do with the web (internet), such as how to set up, operate, and code a WordPress website or blog, how to install, manage, and customize a XenForo forum, how to manage your social media channels and SEO, and how to go about your day to day writing and content generation.
How to Change XenForo Heading Colors
Question: Can I change XenForo heading (H1, H2, H3) colors? If so, how? I have been all through the Appearance > Style Properties in my XenForo admin panel and I can’t find anywhere to change just header colors. When I write posts in the forum, I use the heading options found in the editor. I believe those […]
How Can I Create a Domain Alias or Redirect in cPanel?
Question: Here’s the story. My friend had a website made for him by an online web design company. When I looked at it, I told him that I could make him one that’s easier to use and more expandable in the future. Both sites were built on top of WordPress, but for the one I […]
Using Sublime Text
I’m in the middle of taking the “Up and Running with Sublime Text 2” course on LinkedIn Learning with Kevin Yank and thought it would be a good idea to jot down (as a tutorial) the major areas of what I think is important. All too often, I take a course and have trouble retaining what I’ve learned. Of […]
Robots.txt vs. Noindex
The big question is, which is a better course of action to take when you don’t want a web page indexed in the Google search index, block the page in the robots.txt file or add a noindex meta tag to the page? The answer is, it depends. And to be completely honest, not many people […]
How Do I Set the Homepage & Blog Pages in WordPress
Question: I recently installed a new WordPress blog and see that the blog view is set for the homepage by default. I’d much rather see a regular homepage like the ones I see in all the theme demos out there. I don’t want to have excerpts of my posts appear on the very first page […]
How to Market Your Website for Free
Back in the day, say, around 2005, all someone had to do was pop up a website and it would pretty much market itself. The search engines were extremely forgiving back then and there wasn’t a lot of competition. These days though, a site has got to show it’s actually worth something to show up […]
What Makes a Popular Personal Blog?
I’ve been blogging for a long time. Longer than most people on the planet have, as a matter of fact. I first began writing things down on the internet back in 2005 when Laura and I bought our first house together. Those were fun days and I was doing tons of improvements, many of which […]
Pagerank Sculpting & Evaporation
If you’re a long time SEO, you remember all the hubbub about pagerank sculpting back in (around) 2010. I can’t remember the exact date, but it was a while ago. I remember when Google (and others) came out with the nofollow attribute and then shortly thereafter SEOs all over the place began using it on […]
XenForo: How to Remove RSS Feeds
XenForo creates RSS feed files (index.rss) for a few different types of pages. Off the top of my head, I think there’s a primary top level feed and then there are separate feeds for the forum pages. If you’ve got a limited number of forum pages, you might not want to concern yourself with removing […]