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WordPress broke my site after I updated, why does it do that and what caused it?

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    Dear Linda, My website broke after I updated WordPress! Why does that happen? How annoying.  Why is WordPress such a fuss budget?  My friend was just telling me all her photos stopped working on one of her sites (she has something that switches them up) they simply disappeared and she had to reload them all. Signed, Upset WordPress User Dear Upset, I am 95% sure it was not WordPress. It was one of your plugins. Many people think WordPress “runs” everything you use when you are working in WordPress, but they don’t. This can be confusing. Sometimes clients call me and say, ” I need to call WordPress, they need to fix this.” There is really no where you can call, it does not work like that. Here is why. WordPress is what is called an “Open Source […]

Email Marketing Programs. Why you need one to make money online.

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Why do you need a professional email management program to make money and succeed online? I will tell you my story. When I started online in 1999, I hated spam, I hated email from” internet marketers”, and I resisted all advice to start building an email list. I got very annoyed at people sending me email trying to sell me things. As time went on, I watched people I knew whom I knew personally who had started online around the same time as I did start to make a lot of money, One of my mentors who had actually helped me learn how to build my first website using Xsite Pro is now an online guru, and multi-millionaire. He never spams people and when he sends me emails, I read them. Needless to say, I have had to rethink my […]

How to save time twitter and facebook.

How can I set up a strategic system or tweet plan where I am not creating more work for myself?

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Kim Edwards is writing an article for the Independent Book Publishers Association, and she sent me some interview questions. One of the questions was: “How can I set up a strategic system or tweet plan where I am not creating more work for myself?”. This is a great question for me because I just recently started using twitterfeed. This is a tool that has greatly increased my traffic, (doubled it from the day I started using it!), and saved me so much time. If you are using Facebook and twitter and Linkedin and not using this tool, run don’t walk to sign up now. Did I mention it is FREE. I would pay to use this. It does take about 30 minutes to set up correctly. Well at least it took me that long because I felt a little confused […]

big oversize design website

Big and Glossy Website Design Trend

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I have been designing websites now for 5 years. I still get many compliments on my primary website. I find this interesting because that site is not a WordPress website. I created it using Xsite Pro, a website building program that I really love but do not use nearly as  much. 80% of my business is now building WordPress websites. On my Askmepc-Webdesign site,  people tell me they like how easy it is to find what they are looking for. I am sure they find the traditional layout familiar. (Read my article on how people read a website here). I also always have build very “clean” and clear websites. I hate clutter online.  We have enough coming at us already to be overwhelmed by a website. There is trend now for oversized big glossy looking websites. Some of the things […]

Get rid of spyware, viruses, trojans

How to get rid of and remove the Lizamoon virus fake “Windows Stability Center” virus

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Fake Windows Stability Center Trojan. How to get rid of it. Virus security software calls itself “Windows Stability Center” LizaMoon SQL injection: To continue the story from a few days ago. My daughter was doing a search for her term paper, and when she did the google image search, this virus came up. This fake security software calls itself “Windows Stability Center” and is known as the LizaMoon SQL injection: Windows Stability Center Trojan. We killed the process and got out of the window, and thought all was well, since she never clicked anything or downloaded anything.  Well she continued her research the next day and did a google image search again, and the message keeps popping up in Firefox, but not Internet Explorer. So I am not sure why that is happening other then she is finding many infected […]

Frozen Computer Screen from virus-how to get out of the fake virus screen, or LizaMoon Virus

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How to get out of a virus frozen screen on your computer. Click image to see a large version of the screen. So you have a frozen computer screen or a screen you cannot get past? Here is my story. I started to write this post yesterday, and saved it as a draft. In the meantime my daughter was working on her finals for school, and I told her about this Liza Moon virus and warned her if anything odd came up and told her she was infected, let me see it. The next day she was doing a google image search for her paper and clicked an image and got the warning. She brought the computer to me and I was honestly surprised. There it was, the lizamoon virus. Luckily, she never clicked anything, so she did not get […]

What happened to the back button drop down menu on Firefox 4.0?

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I have just upgraded Firefox to 4.0, and IE to IE9. I must say I really like both of these updates. They are sleek, lean and run fast. But of course as always some of my favorite addons stopped working , and then there are other things that always annoy until you can figure it out and get used to doing things in a “slightly” new way. But for now, where the heck did the back drop down menu go? Watch this: