hCard is a semantic web-friendly derivative of vCard (as used to import/ export from the Mac OS X Address Book). This post is a short "how to" describing a method for adding contact information to your blog posts in a cross-platform format that your readers can store without effort.
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Tag archive for 'blog'
Baby-brained Lynn—a reference to present uterine cf. cerebral capacity—has tagged me to propagate a blog meme.
Continue reading 'A meme of eight random things'
If you've been blogging for a while, chances are your list of post archives by month is growing long in the tooth. Thankfully—once you know how—WordPress makes doing something about it pretty easy (a characteristic I've come to appreciate). I had tried to fumble my way to coding a drop-down menu for my archives but my initial efforts were unsuccessful. I then discovered that the solution was right in front of me all along. RTFM.
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Since my blog will soon be unattended (by me anyway; it will be overseen by a human minder) for several weeks, I wanted to know how easy it would be to automate a once-weekly post for my image-of-the-week (IOTW) feature. It turns out this is easier done than said—requiring only a few mouse clicks, a calendar, and a single sip of coffee.
Continue reading 'Schedule a future post in WordPress'
Apologies to my fictitious regular visitors, who may have imagined that my WordPress-based site has been offline almost daily for the past month. DreamHost has been a down host, and I've made the switch to (mt) Media Temple. In fairness to DreamHost they haven't been the only hosting company affected by recent power cuts, but the power outages seem to be only the culmination of a string of longer-standing problems resulting in slow server response times or non-availability.
Continue reading 'Making the switch from DreamHost to (mt)'
Are you a web developer or a web designer?
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