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September 18, 2011

The Facebook Subscribe Button: What Is It and How Do You Use It?

Last week, Facebook added a new "feature" that lets you subscribe to another Facebook user. It has a similar function to following people on Twitter or Google+ but, not surprisingly, it's a lot more confusing. Because Facebook already has a model for connecting people—it's called being friends with them.

So let's take a look at what this Subscribing stuff is all about...

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Thesis: Using the New Page Redirect Feature in Version 1.7

In my earlier post about new features in Thesis 1.7, I mentioned that I was having a problem with the new page redirect feature. I now have a solution to the problem, so I'm going to explain how the feature works and then what to do if you have the same problem.

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Not Liking All This Facebook Liking Stuff

Okay, I'll be the first to admit I wasn't a big fan of the term "fan page" to describe Facebook's pages for businesses and other branded entities. But at least the invitation to "Become a fan!" worked pretty well as a simple call to action. Now what are we page admins supposed to say? "Please [...]

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How To Stop Facebook’s Latest Attacks on Your Privacy

Yes, Facebook is at it again. Now they're making us have to opt out of sharing information with certain third-party websites. They call it "Instant Personalization." I call BS.

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Bug Alert: Facebook Lite Brings Up Blank Page

I don't know how many people use Facebook Lite, but since yesterday I've been getting a totally blank page when I go to it. It happens in all my browsers, but fortunately I've found a fix for it.

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Thesis Version 1.7 Now Available

Last week, DIYthemes released Thesis version 1.7, an upgrade that includes new options for search engine optimization (SEO), behind-the-scenes performance enhancements, some interface changes, and my favourite part--an Options Manager that lets you save the settings you make in the options panels to easily reuse them on other sites.

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More Fun with Firefox Tabs

This post is partially instructional and partially a look into how my brain works. (Be afraid... :)

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Thesis: Replacing List Bullets with Images Using CSS

Replacing standard HTML list bullets with images can be a great way to tie them into your overall theme and make your site more visually appealing.

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Thesis: Format Previous Entries Pages Like Your Home Page

When you set up a WordPress blog, you can use the WP Settings > Reading panel to limit how many posts appear on a "blog" page, i.e. any page that displays a list of posts. When you have more than that many posts, you get Previous Entries and Next Entries links at the bottom of the page that let you navigate through them all. This is referred to as pagination.

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Thesis QuickTip: Adding Thumbnails to Your Teasers

I love the teaser feature of Thesis, where you have two columns of shorter blurbs linking to older blog posts. You can get a lot more links on your home page without making visitors have to scroll forever. However, by default, the teasers only display text, which is a little bland. And it's a real waste for sites that have a lot of attractive imagery in their posts, like photography, travel, and food blogs. Fortunately, it's very easy to add images to your teasers and Thesis offers several options for sizing and positioning them without requiring any coding at all.

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Working with Tabs in Firefox

Tabs were one of the best features ever added to browsers (remember when you had to have multiple browsers open on your computer to have access to several websites at a time?). Here are just a few tips on ways to work with them in Firefox.

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Thesis: Applying Functions Only to Specific Pages

In an earlier post, I showed you how to write a simple function that places a text box above the headline of your pages. But you don't always want certain content or functionality to apply to every single page on your site. In this post, I'm going to introduce you to conditional statements, which let you specify which pages your function will apply to.

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Thesis: Where Do You Put the Code?

In an earlier post I described how to write a simple custom function that would add a small piece of content into a specific location on your web page. One point of confusion that occasionally comes up is where you actually put this code.

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