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Dressing Up Your Posts and Pages

calendar September 20, 2009   |   author Author: Mike Nichols
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by Mike Nichols on September 20, 2009 · 2 comments

Do your posts look bland and uninteresting? Do your readers look beyond the first paragraph? Can they scan your post and get the main ideas? If not, you are losing readers. The experts say that if you don’t catch the reader’s eye with 10-15 seconds, you have lost them. There are many things you can […]

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Installing Thesis for the First Time

calendar July 14, 2009   |   author Author: Mike Nichols
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by Mike Nichols on July 14, 2009 · 31 comments

Installing Thesis for the first time can be a daunting task, especially if you have little experience with WordPress, FTP programs, or file permissions. But setting up Thesis is not hard, and this guide offers step-by-step instructions to installation, along with plenty of illustrations to help you. The tutorial follows the standard Thesis installation process. […]

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Free FTP Programs and Text Editors for Mac and Windows

calendar July 7, 2009   |   author Author: Mike Nichols
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by Mike Nichols on July 7, 2009 · 0 comments

New users will often try to get by with using their host’s cPanel software for file transfers and NotePad or TextEdit for editing the custom.css and custom_functions.php files. It’ll work, but it’s clunky and frustrating, at best. There’s a better way. Two new articles just posted recommend free FTP and text editor programs for both […]

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FTP Programs and Text Editors for the Mac

calendar July 7, 2009   |   author Author: Mike Nichols
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by Mike Nichols on July 7, 2009 · 0 comments

For more than casual work with Thesis, you need to get separate programs for FTP file transfers and for editing your custom.css and custom_functions.php files. Trying to use your host’s cPanel or similar software for file transfers is an exercise in frustration, as is trying to change permissions. And TextEdit will try to change your […]

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FTP Programs and Text Editors for Windows Users

calendar July 7, 2009   |   author Author: Mike Nichols
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by Mike Nichols on July 7, 2009 · 3 comments

For more than casual work on Thesis, you need to get separate programs for FTP file transfers and for editing your custom.css and custom_functions.php files. Once you have used separate programs on your computer for FTP and program file editing, you will wonder how you ever did without them There’s an ongoing survey in the […]

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