Archive for August, 2008

Getting the Most from Your Wordpress Posts…

This is an excellent article from one of my favorite blogs www.FindableBlogs.com.  Sarah Lewis is specifically a Wordpress blogger and SEO expert.

Read her latest article on "3 Easy Ways to Get More Mileage from Your Blog Posts" at http://www.findableblogs.com/get-more-from-your-blog-posts/ .

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New Blogger: Carl Wilkens

Carl Wilkens of WorldOutsideMyShoes.org comes to me from a "Blogger" blog.  He was looking for something that had the landing page like a website but the with capability of a blog.  His world traveling doesn’t leave him a lot of time to blog, but leave him feedback and encourage him on!

From Carl’s site:  Carl Wilkens is the former head of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International in Rwanda. In 1994, he was the only American who chose to remain in the country after the genocide began.  His choice to stay and try to help resulted in preventing the massacre of hundreds of children over the course of the genocide. 

 

Wilkens was featured in Frontline’s "Ghosts of Rwanda"and "The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide,"an American Radio Works documentary which aired on National Public Radio. 

His story reminds us of the profound connection between history and the moral choices we face each day.  It also arms us with new insights in the fight against genocide  along with tools and inspiration  for re-evaluating the relationships we are part of every day. 

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Wordpress Lesson: Creating a Download Link in a Post

Today the question was "How do I create a download link so I can include a document in my post?"  And I want to thank Robin Messenheimer who asks the BEST questions! 

This short tutorial will assume that you have the Wordpress plug-in FCKeditor  (which I include with all Wordpress installations that I do).  FCKeditor replaces the standard Wordpress editor with an awesome "MS Word" type editor.

Follow the step-by-step, matching the numbered step in the photo below.

  1. Type the word that you want to link (by the way, it also works with a photo) and then ’select’ (or highlight) it.
  2. Click the "Link" icon and a menu will pop-up
  3. Click the "Upload" tab and then "Browse" to find the document you wish to have be the download
  4. Click "Send it to the Server" and wait until you get the confirmation… do NOT click  "Send it to the Server" multiple times, or you will corrupt the file.

Click on the image below for larger detail:

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Download Link to New Catalog

I have updated the sidebar Catalog photo with codes to download the catalog for my blog customers, ladies go to the Members page for your choices of sizes and the ‘drop in’ code.*

*NEW* To non-members - Creating a Photo with Link to Catalog:*

>  click on the image (left) and download it to your computer (the image name is 08CatalogTN(1).jpg)
>  FTP it up to a folder on your server (ex. an /images folder) (view a tutorial on downloading SmartFTP on your computer and uploading a file–warning it shows how to upload a Wordpress plugin, however you will just be uploading to an images folder… you get the idea!)
>  Use the code below to map an HTML path to the photo and
   use this code in your sidebar or other HTML area of your site
>Remember to change out the yourdomain.com/images to your actual domain and the folder that you put it in!

LINK TO AMERICAN CATALOG:

<a href="http://www.stampinup.com/us/documents/us_fw_2008_sm.pdf" target="_blank">
<img src="http://yourdomain.com/images/08CatalogTN.jpg" border="0" /><br />
Click here to download</a> the new catalog!<br />

LINK TO CANADIAN CATALOG:

Right click on the photo (left) for the Canadian Cover
(thank you Andrea Walford for that scan!!)
 

The photo name (when you download it is 08CatalogTNca.jpg)

<a href="http://www.stampinup.com/ca/documents/ca_fw_2008_sm.pdf" target="_blank">
<img src="http://yourdomain.com/images/08CatalogTNca.jpg" border="0" /><br />
Click here to download</a> the new catalog!<br />

Some HTML 101:

  • the target="_blank" opens the PDf in a new window
  • the border="0" takes away the ugly blue line that sometimes shows up on a photo when it is hyperlinked
  • the <a href="…> is wrapped around an <img src="….> (image tag) for a hyperlinked image… don’t forget the </a> to close the hyperlink!

*NOTE:   Members are given code that ‘hotlinks’ to my site where the photos are stored.  I am sorry that I cannot give out this code to the public as it drives up my bandwidth. Thanks for your understanding!

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