Web Monkey, Author at WIREDGORILLA

This past week these two major companies have provided a mini-study in a few do’s and don’ts of email marketing. I hate to call people out, but, you know, a huge national company should really know better.…

How To Use The WordPress Gallery Shortcode

Web Monkey14 years ago03 mins

WordPress has an in-built image gallery feature which does not yet seem to be common knowledge even though it’s incredibly simple to use. So let’s say you are writing a post that you want to include an image gallery in.…

Free Webinar – Introduction to WordPress

Web Monkey14 years ago02 mins

My online workshop series is launching July 14th with a free introduction to WordPress. If you’ve been shy to get WordPress set up on your site, this is your chance to have a guided tour to installation, plugins, themes, widgets, publishing content and more.…

WordPress 3.0 New Features – ‘Twenty Ten’ New Default Theme

Web Monkey14 years ago010 mins

WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” has now been officially released (as you may have noticed from the upgrade prompt at the top of your WP dashboard). I’ll be doing a couple of posts about the new features – in this one I’ll be discussing the brand new default theme that you’ll find if you upgrade.…

How To Make Thesis Teasers Full Column Width

Web Monkey14 years ago02 mins

In a previous article I discussed how to add thumbnail images to your Thesis teasers as an easy way to customize the look. Another fairly simple tweak you can make to the teasers is to change the width.…

How To Add A Thumbnail Image to Thesis Teasers

Web Monkey14 years ago06 mins

Teasers are nice default feature of the Thesis WordPress theme. However, to take them to the next level there are a couple of nice n’ easy customizations you can make to move beyond the default look.…

Small Business and Marketing on Facebook

Web Monkey14 years ago01 mins

Head over to Small Business CEO to read my guest post on “Facebook Strategy For Your Small Business.” I discuss the reality of using Facebook to market your small business organically – which is that it’s difficult!…

Should You Worry About Your Bounce Rate?

Web Monkey14 years ago06 mins

Should You Worry About Your Bounce Rate? A low bounce rate is often cited as a hallmark of a good website – 40% or lower is typically heralded as the goal.…

Facebook Features To Help Your Marketing

Web Monkey14 years ago06 mins

Using some of Facebook’s native features will help you organically grow your audience whether using a personal profile or business Page. 1) Hyper target your status updates (personal profile) When you post any type of status update you now have the option to control exactly who sees it.…

SVN Remove Added File From Repository and Keep Local File – Subversion

Web Monkey14 years ago4 years ago01 mins

This is quick SVN (Subversion) tip, howto remove added file from SVN repository without deleting file from local filesystem. Remove File From SVN Repository and Keep Local File svn delete --keep-local path/to/file.example…

In Life and SEO – There Are No Guarantees!

Web Monkey14 years ago02 mins

Business owners are often asking how they can be ranked #1 on Google, or if they should trust the company that told them they would guarantee a first place ranking.…

Notes and Resources from OC Wordcamp Marketing Presentation

Web Monkey14 years ago08 mins

This past weekend I gave a presentation at OC Wordcamp, discussing using a WordPress site for marketing your business, service or product. As promised, here are the some of the key points, along with links and tools that were mentioned.…

Speaking at OC Wordcamp – WordPress for Marketing

Web Monkey14 years ago02 mins

I’ve been given the opportunity to speak this weekend at OC Wordcamp (thanks Brandon!) on the topic: WordPress for Marketing. I will be discussing ways to optimize your blog to market yourself, your business or service.…

PostgreSQL Sleep Function pg_sleep – Postgres Delay Execution

Web Monkey14 years ago4 years ago04 mins

One day, I was looking for PostgreSQL database function, which could delay the execution of queries. At first I thought that I will do one myself, because I do not remember ever seen this kind function.…

Get Focused With Your Website Marketing – A Reader Example

Web Monkey14 years ago015 mins

Sometimes I give some freebie advice to my subscribers and readers by way of a blog post. I received an email from Becky at Classy Sassy Couture who is looking for more ways to market her website and improve her SEO.…

Recharge and Refine Your Marketing Strategy

Web Monkey14 years ago04 mins

I frequently come across frustrated business owners who are still of the “build it and they will come” mentality. They don’t understand why they are not getting more web traffic, or why their marketing efforts are not having the desired results.…

Turn Web Browsing From Time Suck to Social Media Time Saver

Web Monkey14 years ago01 mins

The folks over at BitRebels.com have been kind enough to publish an article by yours truly. They just launched a Visitor Submissions section and apparently mine was the very first to be published – woo!…

Drive Traffic Using Q&A Sites To Show Your Expertise

Web Monkey14 years ago04 mins

Demonstrating expertise in your field using Q&A sites is a budget-friendly marketing strategy that can drive traffic to your website. Such sites allow the general public to tap the knowledge of the community to get answers to their questions.…

9 Reasons Why Hootsuite Is The Best Twitter Tool

Web Monkey14 years ago05 mins

I continue to recommend Hootsuite as the go-to Twitter application. With more features and a better interface than Tweetdeck, and more features always being added, Hootsuite will make managing your social media much easier.…

Howto Install Gnome Shell with YUM on Fedora 12 Linux

Web Monkey14 years ago02 mins

What is Gnome Shell? GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 desktop user experience. It provides following core interface functions: Launching applications Opening files Switching between open windows Adding and deleting workspaces Moving windows between workspaces Dynamic system-related information display (including transient notifications) Providing a flat list of user-account related actions Logging out or switching the session, and stopping or restarting the machine GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a delightful and easy to use experience.…