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I admit, many years back I didn’t know what open source was either. Thanks to my oldest son, Tim Caswell, I’ve come to know and appreciate open source. Basically open source is software which is open for all to use, without purchase. You are also free to improve, update, modify the code for your own [...]

Several years back I realized it’d be quite helpful for a business owner to have their own website. Not necessarily a blog, I thought blogs were online personal diaries, and why would I want my private ramblings public? My own personal website though would be cool. So I checked into making a website, not knowing [...]

photo credit: seyed mostafa zamani Three years back I wrote a post about why you shouldn’t grab images from google images and post to your blog. I love photos, both taking my own, and viewing the work of others. I’m amazed at the talent out there. Love that through flickr we have images we have [...]

WordPress is a great tool, at least until it is hacked. One reason to keep your sites updated. WordPress themes are great fun, like a wardrobe for your website, change themes and you change the look and feel of your site. There are premium themes (ones you pay for, and should have customer support to [...]

A friend was over at my house and I was showing her how to do stuff on her laptop. Suddenly she hit something and she lost her tool bars. Frustrating for her until my youngest daughter calls out “Push f11″. . . Hard time reading your computer screen? Just push “control +” Simple stuff. Most [...]

Are free WordPress themes really free? Well, that depends. No upfront cost to you, but did the last person to modify the theme add anything nasty to it? Now I don’t have a problem giving credit to a theme’s designer for their work with a link. I do object when they add some kind of [...]