Author Archives: Ron Lisle

Going Mobile

God is taking us yet another direction. We are in the process of selling our home and becoming full-time RVers. Alas, this means that we will be unable to conduct our workshops from our home anymore. I am going to … Continue reading

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Feeding your Facebook to Twitter

Facebook provides a simple way to connect to Twitter. To enable your Facebook content to your Twitter account, login into Facebook and then navigate to http://www.facebook.com/twitter. From there add your Twitter account information to link to it.

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Feeding your WordPress posts to Facebook

The RSS supported built into WordPress makes it easy to write a post in one place and have it appear in other places like FaceBook and Twitter. FaceBook automatically generates multiple RSS feeds based on categories and/or tags, so you … Continue reading

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WordPress 3.0 TwentyTen Child Theme Header Image

The new Twenty Ten theme for WordPress 3.0 provides support for uploading custom header images. Uploaded images are cropped to 940 x 198 pixels. So your options are: Ensure that your header image size is 940 x 198 pixels. Modify … Continue reading

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WordPress 3.0 RC3

WordPress 3.0 RC3 was released yesterday. Once of the very cool new features being added to WordPress 3.0 is support for child themes. This capability will allow a web developer to create a new theme by overriding the settings of … Continue reading

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Dreamweaver CS5

Checking out the new Dreamweaver CS5. Continue reading

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Joomla Security

I found some good tips on Joomla security at HotJoomlaTemplates.com: Keep your Joomla core up-to-date. Keep all your Joomla extensions (components, modules, plugins, templates) up-to-date as well. Follow extensions’ websites and upgrade each extension as soon as new version is … Continue reading

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Adding Website Workshops Forum

I’m looking into selection of a forum (bulletin board) for use with Build a Website Workshops as well as for my WordPress plugin. For Workshops I want something that integrates nicely with Joomla! but I may choose something different for … Continue reading

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Website Workshops

We’re heading off in a new direction regarding my job. God has been tugging at me to do something “different” but it wasn’t until this week that He’s told me what that is. I’ve been thinking that I need to … Continue reading

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Web Design Consulting

After much prayer and discussions with friends and family I have decided to hang up the web design shingle. I’ll be looking at specializing on websites for small churches with limited budgets. It isn’t at all clear at this point … Continue reading

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