Resumes, printable coupons, eBooks, and many other type of documents are prepared for distribution and printing as an Adobe PDF, (Portable Document Format), file.

If you have PDF files that you want to make available for download on your blog, follow these easy steps:

• login to the Admin area of your Wordpress blog
• click Write Post
• give the post a Title and begin to enter the text of the post
• at the point in your post where you want the PDF link to appear, click the Add Media icon

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I was playing around with Wordpress trying to create a theme where the blog posts would not use a lot of screen space. I wanted to keep the content and background (wallpaper) image centered on the screen no matter what size the browser window was.

This is fairly simple to do, after you take a few things into consideration.

If you plan to use a fixed width layout for the page’s content, you will want your background image to act as a frame for the content, and will most likely keep the overall width of the image small.

If you plan to use a fluid layout, (one that expands to 100% of the screen size), and plan to design for higher resolutions, (e.g.- 800×600, 1024×768 or higher), you can create an image that is 1600 pixels wide (or wider) and the same CSS will ignore the extra width that isn’t used.   Be sure to keep the key elements of the design centered in the middle 800 to 1000 pixels.

Here’s a screen shot of the “virtual iphone” I wanted to create. It was done as a Wordpress theme to create a micro-blog.

The CSS to center a background image is very simple:

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A short time after you start your Wordpress blog, you’ll more than likely find an email in your inbox or a notice on the Wordpress Admin dashboard telling you someone has commented on one of your posts.

Most new bloggers will be happy, thinking someone has read their blog and cared enough to comment. Unfortunately, roughly 86% of all blog comments are spam¹.

A few steps you can take to cut down on (or eliminate) Wordpress comment spam:

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There’s a new sheriff in town, and no it’s not ‘big brother’, it’s just the opposite. Everyday people now have the ability to propel your business into the spotlight, or drag it down by it’s heels.

How have these people become so empowered?

Consumer review web sites now give them a soapbox to stand on right in the middle of the virtual village square.

One of the new players in the Web 2.0 “review this business” business is Yelp and there are others including iKarma, CitySquares, OpenList and JudysBook, just to name a few.

While some people are saying, “Power to the people!”, others, including business owners are crying foul. An article in The Register, claims that Yelp not only pays reviewers — a fact Yelp owners acknowledge, saying, [they do pay reviewers], but “Only for about two month in new areas“.

Yelp, was co-founded by Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons who both formerly worked as engineers at PayPal. (I can’t help saying it — anyone who worked at PayPal knows what it’s like to hear customers complain! — but that’s a topic for another review)… Yelp CEO Stoppelman denies that advertisers can pay and have bad reviews removed or pushed down to the bottom of the page where they are less obvious, (and less likely to turn up in search engine listings). Stoppelman seemed to back-track a bit and say that he couldn’t argue that some “rogue salesperson” was pitching that scenrio to potential advertisers.

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Adding Flash video to a website can be confusing to say the least. Many people do not understand the difference between embedding a link to a flash video into page and actually serving the video content themselves.

YouTube and other video sharing / video hosting services make it relatively simply to display flash video, but the content, in-effect, belongs to that hosting service in the eyes of Google and other search engines, and worse, the video become somewhat public domain as anyone else can simply place the same embed code into their webpage and now your unique content is as much theirs as it is yours.

To non-technical types, the answer may be “So what?“, but in the competition for traffic, your unique content, (text, images, video, audio or applications), are what makes your website different from everyone else’s — and is a key factor in how much traffic your site gets.

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