Today’s Visions

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This little gem allows your visitors to sign up for notification when new content has been added to your site.  The best part is, you do nothing once this has been configured for your needs. The email notifications can be sent on a timetable that meets your particular website needs:

1. Per post.  Best for those website owners who update sporadically.
2. Monthly.  For those website owners who add a few new articles per month.
3. Weekly.  For those website owners who add a few new articles per week.
4. Daily.  For those very ambitious website owners who add new content on a daily basis.

In addition, you can choose which categories you want to send out notifications on so your visitors will only get that information which is really important.

If this wasn’t enough power, the mailing list is fully manageable from the backend and allows you to send out other emails to your visitors.

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I was walking along the streets of Port Jefferson last winter and just enjoying the sights and sounds of this small picturesque of waterside village on Long Island.

I had already enjoyed the antique stores and art galleries, browsed through the clothing, jewelry and home boutiques and was taking a few moments to just enjoy the streets of this village. The streets of Port Jefferson are lovely to amble around and then there is the harbor!  WOW!  Breathtaking. Read the rest of this entry »

WordPress Plugins

For as long as I have been working with Wordpress, I have pushed WP-Blog Stats as the visitor statistical plugin of choice.  I was wrong.  There!  I said it – I found a better plugin than the old tried and true.  Blog Stats had an outage with their system that sent me looking and reviewing other plugins dedicated to visitor stats.  What I found was StatPress, a real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc.  More information than you ever thought possible.

And there is no delay – as with Blog Stats.  Once the plugin has been activated it immediately starts to collect statistics information. Using StatPress you can spy your visitors while they are surfing your blog or check which are the preferred pages, posts and categories.

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Recently I entered two photographs into the 43rd Annual Friends of the Riverhead Free Library Photography Contest 2008.  The Reception for the contest was held on Friday, October 4th.  Both of the photographs that I entered brought home awards!  I was thrilled.

Continue Reading to see the pictures that won.

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WordPress Plugins

The role of websites in today’s businesses is growing with each day: more and more customers search for information about products by browsing the Web, more and more companies create special departments to promote and sell their services in the Internet. By making regular website backups you can always feel safe that its data will not be lost due to competitor’s virus attack, server failure or a natural catastrophe.

This plugin makes backups of all your database files (the database is where all your content is stored) and then emails that backup to you on a weekly basis.  Talk about peace of mind!  Just file your backups in a safe place and never worry about recovering from any type of outage.

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Well, in continuation of my ‘Year at Randall Pond’ I did a walk through in September with my camera.  For those who are interested, I use a Olympus E-410.  IT has proven to be a wonderful cameral to learn about appurature, lightening effects, shutter speed, etc … All without driving my poor little mind crazy.

Anyway, back to randall pond.  As the pictures show, the colors are beginning to change already.  Soon the trees will be in full fall colors - oranges, yellows, reds … At this time, just a few trees have changed - but that does not diminish the beauty of this area.

See all the pictures …

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