Choosing a WordPress theme is a very formidable task. Not only do you have the challenge of finding something that looks good to you, but you also have to worry about whether your viewers will appreciate it.  Your big question should be, ”does this theme represent the brand I am trying to promote to my customers?” Here are a few things to consider when choosing a theme: Is the theme easily customizable without programming? Will it support the widgets I’ve been using? Will it support my plugins I’ve been using? Is it compatible with the latest version of...

During my first 100 posts, I have been getting used to the routine of blogging.  I have been mainly focused on the content and not worrying about the presentation.  I have been kind of taken for granted the software called WordPress.  WordPress provides a consistent and feature rich user experience for bloggers and blog readers. I just finished reading a book titled ”WordPress for Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson.”  The first half of this book was mostly a review for me.  It covered many things I had discovered the hard way.  It was good to read another point of view on...

Here are some of the latest developments in our favorite Facebook farm applications.  I recently wrote a blog on Farm Town or FarmVille.  In the blog I mentioned that Farm Town had twice as many required clicks for harvesting.  It appears that Harvesting in Farm Town has improved. Improved harvesting User Interface in Farm Town They have added a Faster harvesting option.  In the past you would take 2 clicks for each field you wanted to harvest.  You would click to select the field, then you would click to sell or click to store the harvested crop. Now, after you select a crop to harvest...

Camera Timestamp In the past, I never bothered with setting the time and date on the camera.  I never printed out the timestamp of the camera on the pictures.  So what was the point?  It just seemed like a waste of time.  Today, I had a revelation, the date really does matter. Flickr cares I joined flickr today, I posted some of our recent photos from our vacation.  When I did a search for “Sundial Bridge” to see the most recent pictures I posted along with the others, my images didn’t show up.  I was perplexed, I knew I should see them at the first of the list...

A year ago, I was in the market for an affordable GPS unit.  This was my first GPS purchase so I didn’t have a lot of pre-conceived notions about what features a GPS should or shouldn’t have. My decision was based on the following criteria: Price – it had to be affordable User Interface- it had to be really easy to use Visibility – it had to be easy to see from different angles Voice – Turn by turn directions Built-in maps of the United States No subscription fees. While I was looking one unit went on sale at Costco.  The Magellan Roadmate 1412 seemed to fit...

Yesterday while I was waiting for a meeting, I decided to visit mrwes.net to see what my blog looked like on my PDA. To my dismay, it didn’t even display at all. It just appeared to hang. I’m not sure if it actually hung or if it was displaying information that the PDA couldn’t handle. Whatever the case was, after a couple of minutes, I decided to reboot the PDA. This was a totally unacceptable user experience, so today I did something about it. I installed the WordPress PDA & iPhone Plugin. The installation was pretty painless. After the installation was complete, I...