What is RSS?
After putting it off for ages, I’ve finally learned everything I need to know (for now) about RSS, and I’m passing some of that on to you.
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Adding a new event
Some websites require events listings, and you can create and maintain these with Texpattern. If your site has an events section, here is how to manage it.
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Hit me with your screenshot
The phrase “a picture says a thousand words” certainly applies to the situation in which one person is seeing a perfect website on her computer, and another is seeing something a little wonky on hers. Enter our friend, the screenshot.
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Tables with Textile
Need to add a simple table to your blog post or other article? You can do it with Textile.
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Link it; link it good
Links are what make the web a web. You can easily include both external and internal links in your posts, and this article explains how.
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Promoting your website online
It’s a great feeling to have your website complete, looking great, and filled with relevant content about your business. But how do you get people to visit your new online real-estate? Here are a few free ways to promote your website online, along with links to more resources.
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Promoting your website: old-school
You may have thought about how to advertise your site online, but there are lots of affordable ways to promote it off-line as well. Here are a few old-school methods to let people know about your site.
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Making edits
It’s very easy to make edits in any article in Textpattern, including “static” or “sticky” articles such as About Me information.
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Including multiple article images
Though a bit more complicated than including just a single article image, adding multiple images to your article is still fairly straightforward.
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Including a single article image
My first post on images explained how to upload your images using the Images tab of the Textpattern interface. But now that your images on uploaded, how do you include them in your article? The process is different depending on whether you have one or multiple images you want to include. This post will explain the simpler process of including a single article image.
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Logging in to Textpattern
How to log in to your Textpattern user interface.
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Screencasts
I have made (and will continue to make) screencasts of many of the common tasks you’ll want to do with Textpattern and Textile.
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Using Textile to add formatting
Textile is a set of cues you can use that tells Textpattern what kind of formatting to apply to your text. This allows you to put add italicized or bold text, lists, headings, links, and much more to your posts. This article shows you some of the most commonly used Textile cues.
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Writing an article
This post explains the basic steps for writing a new article.
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Uploading images
Many times, you will want to include one or more images with an article. This is fairly straightforward to accomplish, though it sometimes involves a few steps, depending on how many images you want to include and whether you are using thumbnails. This post explains the first step of the process, uploading images.
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