January 2010

Removing the “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete” message

January 30, 2010 Blogging Help & Tips

I recently upgraded my install of WordPress here on WayneJohn.com, but I did it through the WordPress interface, and not the “One click install” interface on Dreamhost.  One thing I’ve noticed, and the same might be true for other web hosts, is that if they provide a “One click install”, or an area that will [...]

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How to install Windows 7 – Upgrade your operating system with ease with these tips

January 29, 2010 Tech Talk

The new version of Windows is out, and I am going to talk about how to install Windows 7.  Every other year or so I like to refresh my computer for speed and performance.  Over time, Windows tends to collect crap and will eventually become as slow as molasses.  So what I like to do [...]

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Make Money Online Status Report for December 2009 and the year

January 27, 2010 Make Money

What an amazing year 2009 was.  It’s been up, mostly down and all over the map in terms of weirdness in the world, but I can’t say it’s been all down for me.  This is the first year that I’ve actually made any money online that is worth talking about, and I’m excited to have [...]

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Comments are open across the board and ratings are in place and live

January 25, 2010 Blogging Help & Tips

I’m still building out the syllabus for this years series on building a web site, but in the meantime I wanted to let you know that I’ve re-enabled comments for all posts.

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Archives page is back

January 22, 2010 Blogging Help & Tips

Just wanted to give a quick heads up to everyone that I now have an archive page, again.  I know a few of you have been scrounging through my site looking for posts to help you with something, so I felt it’s time to get the archive page back up. Actually, the theme I’m using [...]

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Are you ready to build a porn site?

January 20, 2010 Build a website

I’ve got an idea, and I want to run it by you to see what you think.  So the majority that responded on the poll said they wanted to read more about “building websites in a specific language”.  But what does that mean?  Will I write about C# and developing an ASP.Net application? Boring. How [...]

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Targeting your comment efforts for higher ranks and more traffic

January 18, 2010 Traffic

We all need traffic, right?  Search traffic, referral traffic, direct traffic from people who have bookmarked your site and so on.  Remember I wrote a post that asked, Where does web site traffic come from? As I stated in that post, there are about 5 types of traffic that can be put into groups. Search [...]

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The poll results are in, web development it is

January 16, 2010 Random Thoughts

I’ll say right here, right now, this wasn’t the topic I was expecting at all. I thought for sure that more people would respond to the make money, or random crap selections in the poll than web development would. And that’s exactly why I did the poll, because I’ve had my head so far up [...]

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New Photo Gallery Page

January 15, 2010 Blogging Help & Tips

I was tooling around under the hood here, and realized that I had a plugin installed that I completely forgot about. If you have a Flickr account and would like to install a complete photo gallery, I think I’ll recommend the one I’m using now. It was easy to install, as most plugins are, and [...]

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Banks offering bonuses should be slapped

January 14, 2010 Random Thoughts

In the face of the worst economic disaster in human history, banks who have taken tax-payer money to help them stay afloat, or to even get ahead and help their bottom line on our own dime, have decided to give bonuses to their staff once again.

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