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Can’t Create Thumbnails in Nextgen Gallery WordPress Plugin

Ran into some weird trouble with the Nextgen Gallery WordPress plugin. Couldn’t find a lot of information to help solve the problem, so I thought I’d write up the experience for anyone else having a...

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Tips for Using Associated Content for Backlinks

In the past, I’ve written about using Associated Content to create backlinks to your own blogs. It’s kind of like guest-posting, plus you can make revenue off the actual AC article if it generates...

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WordPress Plugin Spotlight: Google Analyticator

For years, I’ve been working with WordPress websites. And, for years, I’ve been using Google Analytics to track visits to those websites. For whatever reason, I always just stuck the Google tracking...

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Keep Visitors On Your Site: Write Multi-Part Content

For your website to be successful, you need traffic. That’s pretty simple. But, you also want some quality to that traffic. Traffic with a high bounce rate – where people come to your site and...

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Modify WordPress to Accept New Filetypes as Uploads

Ran into a new problem with WordPress today. I was working on my photography blog, and I wanted to upload a DNG file (a standardized RAW format) so that people could work along and edit the photo with...

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Trying NaBloPoMo, a Second Time

It seems like forever ago that I started this blog… it was a little over 2 years. One of the things that got me started with it was NaBloPoMo – National Blog Posting Month. It’s a social network...

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What to Write About? Check Out Google Analytics

One of the troubles with blogging for a long time is that you tend to run out of things to talk about… or at least you think you do. Part of the problem may be that you’re thinking too generally. There...

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New Photo Projects – Fashion Show, Community Events

Now that it’s almost summer, I’ve got some more time to work on our photography studio. One of my goals this summer is to re-design and improve the shopping cart page / proofing album (see a sample...

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Compatibility Issues and Versions of Adobe InDesign

Adobe routinely releases new versions of Creative Suite. InDesign is no different. The latest version is CS6, but you might be using anything from CS4 to CS5 to CS5.5 (why was there a 5.5?). And who...

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Designing and Printing Comp Cards

Comp cards – or sed / zed cards – are important business tools for models. They serve like business cards. When a model goes on a casting call or audition, he or she leaves a comp card behind with the...

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