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Those of us who use CPA advertising in any form (AKA affiliate marketing) which is where advertisers are paid only on sales of those referred through banner and text links should be aware of the new Code of Best Practice that was established for the use of Online Voucher Codes by the Internet Advertising Bureau [...]

In order to add pictures, you will need to have access rights of an “Author”, “Editor” or “Administrator”. To add a picture, click on the first button, next to “Add media”. When you hover over it, a box will appear, saying “Add an Image”

You will see this screen appear:

Option 1: To upload photos and images [...]

Click on “Write”

Enter a title in the “Title” box

Write your article in the main box below, as shown:

Scroll down and choose a category or categories by ticking or un-ticking the boxes:

Scroll back up and press “submit for review” or “save” if you aren’t finished yet. If you are an author, editor or administrator, you will [...]

Go to your website. Add /wp-admin/ to the address.

This should take you to your login page:

Enter your details and press “Login”. This will take you to the dashboard.

You will see different things on the dashboard, depending on whether you are an administrator, contributor or subscriber etc…
Log out again by clicking on the “Log Out” link [...]

I was having a look at the technical blogging leviathan that is TechCrunch this evening and I thought I’d check out what their WP code looked like.
A technical blog written primarily about Web 2.0 (does anyone still use that phrase??) and the general state and direction of the media world should have, I would think, [...]

This week has seen the launch of another channel which sees us further extend our reach into online leisure activities in a blogging sense - this time, its fly fishing we’re dealing with.
This new site - www.fly-fishing.in - will showcase the great and good from the world of game fly fishing, and anyone who wants [...]

After a little bit of blogging about sending thank-you notes online, a comment I left was picked up, and run with, about whether your parents, or grandparents, would approve of the stuff you’re doing on the internet. See it here.
But this little exchange got me thinking about advice we have received from our elders. So [...]

Bloggings hard.
I once watched an episode of South Park called “The Simpsons Already Did It” where the story was based around the fact that it was hard to be satirical, and original, about current affairs when creating a cartoon, because The Simpsons had already covered the subject.
It is much the same with blogs. This usually [...]

How very relevant.
I found this article about whether blogging will get you a job while I was doing a virtual cruise this lunchtime.
Will blogging get anyone a job? Only, I would assume, if they write explicitly about how they are

“forward thinking”;
“a real people person”;
“a dynamic individual”;
a person who “loves to work as part of a [...]

I recently discovered this post, which is an interesting take on why to blog, when I was looking for something entirely different!
I think that it may actually complement the things I was saying in “The Art of Blogging?” due to the fact that a main focus is on writing quality content for a site, and [...]