Web Works

Tracy Mueller, with whom I published the Texas Magazine, gathered a brown-bag lunch recently for people around campus interested in how we put a magazine online using Wordpress. We had at least a dozen people and a bunch of questions so she followed it up with some blog posts of her own elaborating on the [...]

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Having a good image goes a long way toward making your post look attractive and accessible. Without an image, fewer people will stop to look at what you’ve written. The challenge is finding a good photo fast that can be used legally. Flickr’s ability to search for photos that are legally available through a Creative [...]

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As Wordpress blog managers, we occasionally need to look under the hood (click on the “HTML” tab on the top left of the post area) of a wonky post to re-format or fix what’s not working. Here are a few HTML basics.
Line break: <br>
Note: This little guy is like hitting “return” on the keyboard. It’ll [...]

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Dorothy wrote me this morning about the MPA student blog with a problem I’ve seen several times, the dreaded div tag: <div> This little culprit will reformat your blog. Basically, a blogger has pasted some text into Wordpress that is screwing up the formatting. The whole right sidebar is being pushed down to the bottom [...]

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