A disclaimer is a statement that basically holds you harmless from prosecution. Disclaimers can be placed in the footer or sidebar, if short, or on a page of its own; or even at the bottom of your blog posts or comments form.

I chose to place the disclaimer above the center column which contained his blogs. I found the code from myhttp://my.opera.com/nicomen/blog/show.dml/415526 and modified it for my client’s needs.

/***** Disclaimer ***************/
#content:before {
content: “The opinions and statements of the blogger are just that. They may not reflect the ministry as a whole. Statements of ‘fact’ by the blogger may not have been verified by the blogger or may have been interpreted incorrectly by the blogger. The blogger reserves the right to reply to only those comments he chooses to respond to.”;
color: black;
background-color: #ffffcc;
font-style: italic;
border: solid #aaaa77 1px;
padding: 5px;
white-space: normal;
margin-bottom: 15px;
margin-right: 10px;
float: none;
width: auto;
display: block;
}

It might come in handy sometime, so I thought I’d post it.

You must understand who will really be visiting your site and what’s necessary to get your message to your visitors. First acknowledge who your real market is. Who will be interested in what you have to offer? Is it a certain age group? Travelers? Those seeking information about a certain topic? If you sell jewelry, who would be most likely to purchase it? Loan seekers? Art lovers? Find out all you can about your audience, what their needs and desires are.

Getting a visitor onto your website is the first big step. If they’ve arrived, that means something has worked. People are hoping they have come to the right website, so it’s important to reassure them that they are indeed in the right place. They want clues that tell them they’ve found what they’re looking for, that they don’t need to spend any more of their valuable time searching.

Imagine that you are the visitor, that you are looking for the things you have to offer. What do they really want to see?

I would venture to say they want to feel the site is trustworthy, that prices are not too expensive, and that they can get someone on the phone when they need help.

The web site’s job is to get the visitor to the point of taking the next step, whatever that is. What is it that you want your visitor to do?

Take a look at your website and ask yourself some questions:

1. What do you notice first?
2. What do you notice second?
3. What message do you get?
4. What clues can you find that point to possible goals?

If your target audience is retired adults who want to vacation in a warm climate, for instance, your site should communicate warmth, sunshine, and perhaps activities that seniors enjoy. Your visitor will no doubt be asking themselves if your site (your business) will meet their expectations of warm weather and plenty of activities. If they feel that these immediate expectations are being met, they will move to the next step. The next step might be viewing a second or third page, spending time on the site to learn more about the location of your business and what you have to offer. And then they will move on to contacting you via email or phone to get even more information, or to make a reservation.

Look at your site through the eyes of your audience. Are you meeting their expectations? Are they in the right place? Will they feel enough trust to take the next step?

It was named favicon because it was first developed in Internet Explorer, which calls bookmarked sites “favorites.”

Favicons are usually designed as a small rendition of the site’s logo or other branding mechanism.

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First, I opened the web page I wanted to capture.  The program doesn’t appear to be compatible with FireFox (the entire screen is captured instead of the window), so I used Internet Explorer.

Then I opened SnagIt and selected “a scrolling window.” The defaults are already set, but the scrolling delay is set to zero and it wasn’t capturing the whole page. To change the default, click the “…” to the right of Input: Auto Scroll Window, select scrolling and Scroll delay 100.

Push the Capture button, click one time on the screen and wait for the capture to complete. You will be returned to the preview screen where you can click Finish if the capture is what you wanted.

You will be prompted to select a place to save the .png file.

I opened the .png file in Pixlr, then selected Print, selected CutePdf and saved the pdf in a folder. I was then able to forward this pdf file to the client.

add_filter('genesis_comment_form_args', 'custom_comment_form_args');
function custom_comment_form_args($args) {
  $args['title_reply'] = 'Leave a Comment';    // $args['title_reply'] = ''; for total removal
  return $args;
}

• Go to the Dashboard.
• Click on Theme Settings.
• Scroll down to Comments/Tracking.
• Check Enable Comments on Pages
• Go to a page that you want to allow comments
• Click on Screen Options upper right corner and check Discussion. This causes a menu to appear a ways down the page called Discussion.
• Check Allow Comments
• Save

The basic steps for using Kadom Ad Management are:

Add a Kadom Ad Zone

• Login to your WordPress Dashboard
• Kadom Ads
• Manage Zones
  • Name – Choose one you will recognize
  • Position – Select the alignment of this ad zone
  • Banner Width (px) – The width of your campaign image
  • Banner Height (px) – The height of your campaign image
  • Number of Banners – How many campaign positions do you want to include in this ad zone?
  • Maximum Number of Banners displayed – How many campaign images will appear at any one time
  • Cost in $ – How much are you charging per month for advertisers to put their ad in this zone?
  • Widget  (Yes or No) – Do you want this ad zone to have a widget that you can plug into your sidebar or other widget enabled positions with the Widget settings on WordPress?
• Submit – This ad zone will now appear on your list of available zones.

Add a Kadom Ad Campaign

• Login to your WordPress Dashboard
• Kadom Ads
• Manage Campaigns
  • Name – This is the name of your campaign. Choose a name you will recognize as this is how you will be able to tell one ad campaign from another in your administration panel.
  • URL – This is the target URL, the link that you want visitors to go to when they click on the ad.
  • Image URL – The link to the image you want to use in this ad zone. This image should already be resized to fit the zone you intend to use for this campaign.
  • Alt Text – When an image fails to load, a visitor has turned off their images, or a visitor is using vision accessibility settings, this text will appear instead of the chosen image.
  • Start Date – Usually you can leave this blank as the ad will begin when you save it. If you’d like to schedule your ad to start on a future date, or set it so it is scheduled for monthly rotation on a different date, you can set a date here.
  • Period – From 1 month to 1 year, you can select how long this ad campaign will continue to run.
  • Masked URL – If you’re using Pretty Link, you do not need to mask the URL of your ad campaigns. However, if you’ve got strange URLs or want to hide the true destination of your campaign URL, you can choose to mask the URL.
  • Ad Zone – Select from the list of zones you created in Kadom Ad Zone

To add widgets:

• Appearance
• Widgets
• Drag Kadom Ads Widget to the section you want it to appear in, e.g. Primary Sidebar, Secondary Sidebar, etc.
• Give it a Title if you wish – it will appear above the ad image
• Select the Ad Zone you want to display
• Optionally, enter a custom image for URL for the empty zone
• Check Show Empty Zone if you want a generic ad image to show
• Or, check “Advertise Here” if you prefer to have those words appear
• Margin in px (between Ads)
• Number of columns banners
• Save

Now you can head over to TS Custom Widgets (if it’s installed, it will show in the left hand column of the Dashboard).

• If you placed the widget in Primary Sidebar, it will appear in the section entitled Primary Sidebar.
• Select the first Kadom Ads Widget link
• You will be taken to a page where you can select where you want the ad to appear. In my project, I clicked on (Edit) next to pages
• Check the box(s) where you want the ad to appear
• Click on Add Selected Pages

Under Choose how to create your signature, select the option you want. For Help on an option, click the question mark , and then click the option.

To insert the signature manually:

1. In Outlook 2002, click Options on the Tools menu, and then click the Mail Format tab.
2. Click to clear the Use Microsoft Word to edit e-mail messages check box.
3. Click OK.

WP125

• I like how easy WP125 is to set up and use. It is intuitive.
• You can select random images vs normal using a drop down menu.
• You can select one or two column display.
• It would appear that any number of ads can be selected.
• An expiration date can be selected.
• No options in the widget area at all
• What I didn’t like is that it can only be selected once to be put into a widget. I suppose it isn’t necessary since the number of ads appears to be unlimited.
• The borders around the ads are not consistent. It is visible around one column but not the other. In fact, Firefox shows the background instead of the border, which looks even stranger.

AdRotate

• AdRotate was a bit challenging in some regards. It should have been pretty straight forward as well, but there was an issue with the ads being up against each other. This was supposed to be rectified with 3.6.1 but must still have a glitch
• Individual ads are set up, within groups (if more than one ad is used).
• Ads rotate within the group, any number of ads can be placed in a group.
• Any number of groups can be placed in a block.
• When a block is set up, the display is chosen (number of ads and number of columns).
• Many other features (tracking clicks, access rights, etc)

Ad Squares

• The default is 125×125, supposed to be able to use different sizes, but I haven’t found how to do that.
• Looks nice. Evenly spaced, equal border around each ad
• Very simple
• Select widget and enter <img src>
• Number of ads and padding are selected right in the widget
• Only 2, 4, 6, or 8 ads can be selected, but the widget can be dragged over again if more are needed.
• To randomize the ads, simply check yes in the widget
• One major issue is that when the plugin is deactivated (including deactivating to upgrade WordPress), all settings are lost!

Ad Codes

• The default appears to be 300×250, supposed to be able to use different sizes, but I haven’t found how to do that.
• Very simple
• I didn’t spend any more time on Ad Codes. I’m assuming it is nearly identical to Ad Squares since it’s made by the same folks.

FeedBurner takes your default wordpress feed and adds more functionality to it without you having to modify it yourself.

WordPress comes with a default feed (www.domainname.com/feed if WordPress was installed in the root directory or www.domainname.com/blog/feed if it was installed in a subdirectory named blog) but FeedBurner allows visitors to subscribe via email.

Installing FeedBurner
First you will need a Google account. Sign into feedburner.com using your gmail account

After logging in, you will be asked to enter in the feed of your blog. This is www.domainname.com/feed if WordPress was installed in the root directory or www.domainname.com/blog/feed if it was installed in a subdirectory named blog.

Next you will choose the title the address of your feed. The title should be the same as your blog title. Keep the feed address short and memorable.

Click Next and you will receive the Congrats! screen

Click Next and the stats configuration page will appear. Select the level of feed stats detail you want.

Click on Email Subscriptions and Activate. Before clicking on the Save Button, determine if you need the code that will appear on the page. It is NOT needed if you are using the Genesis eNews & Updates widget. All lthat is needed is the Google/Feedburner ID (the ID is normally the name of the feed you used to add to FeedBurner.