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The simplest way to put a clickable header image into the Thesis theme

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NOTE: Soon you’ll have nothing more to do than just upload an image for your clickable header in Thesis! I have the developer license now, so I’m running Thesis 1.8b2. Thesis suggests dimensions for the header image, so you can size your image or let Thesis make the adjustments itself. ————–The original post, for pre-1.8 [...]

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When is it worth outsourcing something?

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Some of us think we are doing everything ourselves and not outsourcing anything. After all, I mop my own kitchen floor! I mow my own yard! I built my own computer! But really we are not doing everything without paying anyone else to take care of something for us. Unless you are grinding grain into [...]

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The ugly truth about who’s hiding behind that avatar!

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You can talk to someone for years on a forum and only imagine what they look like. That cool avatar or artistic picture promises so much! Here’s a hilarious look at what those avatars really mean! References: About a week ago, I found this table on this forum but don’t ask me how I got there. [...]

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MiscBytes is now DoFollow!

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MiscBytes is now a DoFollow blog. The DoFollow plugin I’m using is by Kimmo Suominen, in case you want to know, and it has plenty of ways to configure it.  I have it set to remove NoFollow from all comments, whether they are from a registered user or a first-time visitor.  Spammers will be executed. [...]

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A few cool bytes from around the internet

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These are not particularly new or breaking news, but they are things I have seen in the past few days that I found share-worthy. Some of them are from people who comment on this blog, and some are people I’ve never “talked” to before. That’s because I always read your site if you comment on [...]

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Going back for more – hosting with BlueHost

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About a week or two after I first signed up at BlueHost, I decided I hated my domain name and not only wanted to get a new name, I wanted that domain name banished from my account. See, at BlueHost you can have unlimited domains hosted on your account, but one of them is going to be the “main” domain. So anyway, once I decided I hated that domain I called their technical support.

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Thesis theme: Images and thumbnails made simple

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When I switched to the Thesis theme and added teasers to my front page, the teasers did not have thumbnails! Almost all of the posts had images, but the thumbnails did not appear. It turns out the answer is simple, but it took a little playing before I found it.

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Back up your blog – it doesn’t take a server disaster to lose your work.

Last week I caused an unexpected disaster for my blog and had to restore it from backup.

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Addicted to buying domain names but found a no-effort way to make them pay

Turns out that now you can park your domain and have Adsense ads on it and make money – and it doesn’t cost you a cent.

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Enhance your online presence with your Google profile

Centrally managed, your Google profile is your “face” on the internet, at least when you’re in Google territory.

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