November 2008

Creative Commons New Zealand

I received an email recently to let me know about Creative Commons NZ: The Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand licences are all up and running for Kiwis to use, and we have a brand new website where people can register as a licence user and promote their work, ask questions, find helpful guides and contribute [...]

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Get Started with Google AdSense in your blog

After quite some delay the final article in my series at Peachpit has been published — Getting Started with Google AdSense: Placing ads in your WordPress blog may not earn you a big wad of cash, but Google AdSense makes the process easy enough that it’s worth the effort. Miraz Jordan shows how simply you [...]

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The skinny on images in web pages and email

Large pictures clog up emails and make web pages slow. Here’s how to optimise photos or other images to get your message across more easily.

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Is your email address ‘spammy’?

I recently almost deleted an email in my In Box sight unseen. It was lucky I opened it though as it was actually a genuine message I needed to see. So, why did I almost delete it without reading? Because I thought it was spam. It looked spammy. The email address of the Sender looked [...]

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Hoop jumping: blue ribbon special

I’m visiting Hawai’i next month to teach two days of courses about WordPress, as I mentioned in Trip to Hawai’i – the Visitor’s Visa. Little did I know that the Visitor’s Visa was just the first in a series of hoops I have had to jump through. A couple of weeks ago the nice folks [...]

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Janne Land’s latest and final exhibition

I’m sad to report that the final exhibition at Janne Land Art Gallery — Notes From The Waikato; Head Room has just been uploaded. It contains images from Michael Hight’s work and from Terry Stringer’s work. The Janne Land Gallery has been a client of mine for many years now. We’ve faithfully added the latest [...]

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