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		<title>WordPress Tutorial: Uploading Large Files</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Charbonneau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Depending on your hosting environment, you may have run into time-outs or errors when trying to upload large files in WordPress. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Depending on your hosting environment, you may have run into time-outs or errors when trying to upload large files in WordPress. It might be solved by a php.ini or .htaccess file edit, but that&#8217;s if you know how to do those things and even then it might not work. Of course, you could upload using any FTP program, but that&#8217;s again assuming you know how to do that. I wanted to stick with WordPress and get the job done. I used two plugins: myFTP and Add from Server. The video shows how it works.<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="550" height="330"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="src" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8130095&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=59a5d1&amp;fullscreen=1"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8130095&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=59a5d1&amp;fullscreen=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="550" height="330"></embed></param></object></p>
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		<title>How to install Google Analytics on your self-hosted WordPress Site (video tutorial)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Muldoon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d try my hand at making a video tutorial. This first-pass is a little rough, but I think the point comes across. It&#8217;s something many of you already know how to do: installing Google Analytics in your WordPress blog.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought I&#8217;d try my hand at making a video tutorial. This first-pass is a little rough, but I think the point comes across. It&#8217;s something many of you already know how to do: installing Google Analytics in your WordPress blog.</p>
<p>I know there are a ton of Google Analytics plugins for WordPress, but the one I like is called &#8220;<a target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/" target="_blank">Google Analytics for Wordpress</a>&#8221; by Joost de Valk (who has a number of <a target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile/joostdevalk" target="_blank">other excellent plugins</a>. I like how well it handles tracking clicks to downloads and external links, and how you can select not to track your own activity when you&#8217;re logged in as an administrator.</p>
<p>Hat tip to the <a target="_blank" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8090" target="_blank">Capture Fox plugin</a> for Firefox for making an excellent FF plugin for screecast videos.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the How-To (hit Fullscreen to enjoy all the delicious goodness):<br />
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		<title>Accessibility and Web Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Schatzkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You want your website to reach as many people as possible.  Of course, that's what it's for, right?  However, you may be inadvertently losing traffic and potential clients by not considering other's abilities.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You want your website to reach as many people as possible.  Of course, that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s for, right?  However, you may be inadvertently losing traffic and potential clients by not considering other&#8217;s abilities.</p>
<p>According to the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=15&amp;DocumentID=4398" target="_blank">American Foundation for the Blind</a>, 25 million Americans have significant vision loss.  Many people who are legally blind cannot drive a car but they can see your website with the aid of <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology" target="_blank">assistive technology</a>.  Some assistive technology is as simple just magnifying the text on the screen; some people use <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_readers">screen readers</a>; you can read about other types of visual assistance <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assistive_technology#Visual_impairment" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Although much of the web is purely visual, many times we like to include video in our presentations.  If someone is hearing impaired, this part of our site &#8212; sometimes a crucial part &#8212; can be completely inaccessible.</p>
<p>Here are a few tips to get you started on considering making your site more accessible:</p>
<ol>
<li> Put  alt tags  or captions on  every image.  This allows a site-impaired person to access what the image is about if they can&#8217;t see it.</li>
<li>Make it easy for users to enlarge text.  Us designers may get stuck on having the perfect, pretty font, and may use Flash or JPEGs to embed titles on our page.  Whenever you can, use plain text that can be enlarged or otherwise easily read.  And keep in mind that almost no one over the age of 40 can read 9 point font.</li>
<li> Caption all video.  If you want to use Flash, there are easy freeware tools such as <a target="_blank" href="http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/" target="_blank">Magpie</a> to accomplish this.  Also, <a target="_blank" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/automatic-captions-in-youtube.html" target="_blank">Google/YouTube is introducing automatic captioning</a>, although as they themselves demonstrate, it&#8217;s not an exact science.  To make sure you get the text right, soon you can use their auto-timing feature, which will use a speech-to-text algorithm to caption a video using your uploaded text file.  For now you&#8217;ll still have to upload a caption file, which needs timecodes to work.</li>
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<p>Lastly, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/accessibility/resources.html" target="_blank">Google has a variety of accessibility resources here.</a> Of course, these tips and resources are not an exhaustive list.  The point here is to start including ideas for accessibility in your design process.</p>
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		<title>WordPress Tutorial (2.8.4) Statistics and Keywords</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Charbonneau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three people including my aunt or three thousand including potential clients? ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Overview of the dashboard stats and then deeper statistics provided by the wordpress.com stats plugin. Quickly go over the different areas of the stats (Referrers, Top Posts &amp; Pages, Search Engine Terms, Clicks, and Incoming Links) and then a bit of analysis of the keywords. Finally, a very brief example of how to put those keywords to use in a particular post using the All-in-One SEO plugin.<object width="550" height="330"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6727217&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6727217&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00ADEF&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="550" height="330"></embed></param></object></p>
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