Archive | Blogging
26
Jan

Got a Band? Need a Website for Your Band?

I often use WooThemes Word­Press themes for client sites, par­tic­u­larly if the bud­get doesn’t allow for a com­plete, start­ing from scratch approach. They design great themes that are well sup­ported and are built on a solid code base that allows for plenty of cus­tomiza­tion with­out hav­ing to rein­vent the wheel each time you start a […]

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06
Jan

WordPress Tip: Update Your Permalinks

The other day I went on 4 or 5 toot rant on Twit­ter about issues I often come across in web­sites I visit.1 It was a bit of a let­ting off of steam and on Twit­ter, were you’re lim­ited to 140 char­ac­ters, it’s not that help­ful since I just com­plained and didn’t pro­vide any real […]

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09
Nov

One More on Squarespace

Over on my pod­cast net­work, SSKTN, we have a new spon­sor called Square­space. I men­tion this here only because a com­mon key­word search that brings peo­ple to this web­site is ‘square­space vs virb’ where they land on this post com­par­ing two pop­u­lar web­site builder com­pa­nies. As part of the spon­sor­ship of SSKTN, Square­space has set […]

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24
Oct

Keeping WordPress Clean

I was recently con­tacted by Megan because a web­site she runs, The Gluten Free Vegan “It’s Gluten Free. It’s Vegan. It Actu­ally Tastes Good.”, seemed to have been hacked and mal­ware warn­ings were pop­ping up when peo­ple would visit her blog. Obvi­ously not a good sit­u­a­tion for a web­site — par­tic­u­larly one that’s all about food. […]

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26
Sep

How to Download a Video from YouTube

I get asked this enough that I thought I’d record a quick screen­cast on how to down­load a video from YouTube. Sites men­tioned in the video: Per­ian Handbrake

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24
Aug

Taking Lemon Productions Full Time

This is a repost from my per­sonal blog but I thought I’d put it here as well: It’s with a mix­ture of excite­ment, ner­vous­ness and a dash of whattheheckareyoudoingandthinking-ness, I’m happy to announce that begin­ning Sep­tem­ber 6th, I’ll be tak­ing Lemon Pro­duc­tions full time. Phew. Said it. Now I have to do it. Where I’ve Been First off, this […]

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14
Dec

Required Listening: Merlin Mann on Blogging from 2008

In 2008, Mer­lin Mann was on the CBC Radio show Spark talk­ing with host Nora Young about the hows/whys/whats/whos of blog­ging — whether it’s per­son­ally to talk about your cat or if you’re look­ing to setup a blog for your busi­ness to reach new cus­tomers. 2+ years later, the advice def­i­nitely holds up for anyone […]

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03
Sep

Overnight Success After 10 Years

Biz Stone is the co-founder of Twit­ter (fol­low Lemon Pro­duc­tions here) and had this to say in a blog post about the per­ceived overnight suc­cess of Twit­ter: Tim­ing, per­se­ver­ance, and ten years of try­ing will even­tu­ally make you look like an overnight suc­cess. Sur­round­ing your­self with smart peo­ple you like to work with helps immeasurably. […]

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06
Aug

& Jim Coudal “Online Advertising: Losing the Race to the Bottom”">Required Listening: John Gruber & Jim Coudal “Online Advertising: Losing the Race to the Bottom”

John Gru­ber (Dar­ing Fire­ball) and Jim Coudal (The Deck Ad Net­work & Coudal.com) gave a great talk at South by South­west 2010 titled “Online Adver­tis­ing: Los­ing the Race to the Bot­tom” in which they spoke about what meth­ods they have used to gen­er­ate income from their online efforts. Down­load or lis­ten to the file here. John […]

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