For those of you who don’t know, I’m a Google fan. The thing about their searches, though, is that in order to make truly effective use of it, you do have to know how to use it. Here is a tip for finding local businesses — to find furniture stores near your house, go to Google maps and in the search box, type
furniture within 20 miles Chicago IL
Your search term, say “furniture”, within X miles, then your city and state.
You will get local results. You’re welcome. =)
You can also use the more advanced keywords “loc” and “category” if you’re brave. E.g.:
category:”Retail Stores – Furniture” loc: chicago il
I LOVE Google search tips. Got any more? Please share in the comments!
I’ve been meaning to write up this little blurb for some time now, but I keep forgetting. Back in July of last year, the Daily WTF posted an article about spamming a poor random company during testing. A commenter pointed out that the domain example.org is reserved for just such testing. I personally didn’t kow that, and apparently I was not alone.
I’m really mostly a server-side chick, so while I like CSS in theory, I don’t use it a lot beyond the most basic things like setting colors, fonts, and maybe styling the occasional list item set into a menu. I don’t really deal with front-end design on my day job. My CSS experience is pretty much limited to hacking other people’s CSS in themes I’m trying to use.
So CSS positioning is still a bit confuzzling for me. I liked the 10 steps of this tutorial because I could go back and forth to step 1 to compare easily and SEE the difference.
Anyone who has been using WordPress knows what a pain in the butt trying to get videos into your post can be. The WordPress WYSIWYG editor strips essential tags from the code when you go into code view, paste the code, then go back into the visual view.
Past versions of Wordpress didn’t behave nicely no matter what you did, and people needed plugins that did interesting workarounds to get embeds to work properly.
While WordPress 2.6 support for videos using its editor still bites, there is a far easier workaround to getting the videos to embed and not break when you go back to Visual view.
To get a YouTube or other video into your post, do the following.
1. Copy the code that the site lists as its embed code. That code will look something like this.
Now when you switch into Visual view, you’ll see a little yellow box that appears to be a broken Flash object. However, it isn’t broken. If you switch back into HTML view, you’ll see Wordpress added back the object tag and associated code.
You can now switch back and forth from Visual to HTML view with no problems, and when you publish your post, the video will link in just fine. Like so.
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