Free Font, Clipart, and Background Download Sites

Posted by admin on January 15, 2010

Still cleaning out my bookmarks.
Here’s a list of places to download free font sets:

Fontspace
1001 Free Fonts

Free Photo Sites:

Free Digital Photos
DreamsTime
Pixel Perfect Digital
Freerange Stock
Morgue File
Free Pixels
Stock Vault
Image Base
Stock.xchng

Free Clipart Sites:

Icon Drawer
Iconka
Iconspedia
Free Icons Web
Vista Icons
Visual Pharm
Icon Stick

Freebiesdock
Web Designer Depot
Yellow Icon
Down Archive
Clker
Free Clipart Pictures

Free Background Sites:

Pattern Cooler
NASA

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Extended ASCII Character Codes Table

Posted by admin on January 13, 2010

This posting is mostly for me so I don’t have to keep looking these up every time I need one.

The extended ASCII codes (character code 128-255)
There are several different variations of the 8-bit ASCII table. The table below is according to ISO 8859-1, also called ISO Latin-1. Codes 129-159 contain the Microsoft® Windows Latin-1 [...]

Wordpress Code to Display Contents of One Category by Title

Posted by admin on January 8, 2010

This code was a PITA to find and i have a new ulcer forming that I am going to name, “Wordpress Codex.” What I wanted was to have just my most recent news items display separately from my articles and update dynamically in the body of an otherwise static homepage. (ie. NOT as a [...]

Tips and Tricks for Better Blogging

Posted by admin on November 20, 2009

Full Series

Is Blogging Right For You?
Tips and Tricks for Better Blogging
Pretty Posts Happy Guests

This article appeared in the January/February 2009 issue of Writers’ Journal. It’s part 2 of a 3 part series.
View “Tips and Tricks for Better Blogging” as it appeared in Writers’ Journal.
Now that you’ve set up a blog and made a few [...]

Could Bing and Google Be the Death of Facebook and Twitter?

Posted by admin on October 22, 2009

Or will the search engines kill themselves?
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Microsoft’s Bing adds Twitter search (update: Google will too) Washington Post
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Microsoft partners with Facebook, Twitter on search CNET News

The Washington Post reported today that Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, and Google will start crawling Twitter posts. Microsoft’s Bing adds Twitter search [...]

6 Dirty Secrets About SEO

Posted by admin on October 20, 2009

Full Series

Building Your Web Presence: When to Hire a Web Developer
9 Questions Your Developer Should Ask You
What Types of Pages Do You Need?
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Six Dirty Secrets About Search Engine Optimization

This article appeared in the September/October 2008 issue of Writers’ Journal in the “Computer [...]