Category Archives: Web 101

Tech Tips and chitchat

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How to turn off Facebook “Places”

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You will need to edit your own Privacy Settings AND your Application Settings to ensure that your location information can’t be inadvertently shared with FB apps your friends are using. Continue reading

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Basic HTML for bloggers

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Every now and then I get asked about this, so I’m listing a few good resources here so that they’re all together in one place. Continue reading

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How to change your display name on wordpress.com

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This is coming up for me every now and then as a question from the perplexed.

It’s obviously not quite as obvious as it could be. Continue reading

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No reader’s comments display in your sidebar? Do you want more comments or not?

I don’t understand why anyone who blogs would not have some sort of “Latest Comments” widget in the sidebar, but it appears that quite a few don’t. I wonder if they realise that this might be why they don’t get as many comments on every post as they might like? Continue reading

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Common website mistakes #1: Images

I see otherwise well-done amateur websites ruined by a lack of knowledge about images on the web all the time.
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