Sabra Duffiney

Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.

Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.

The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late.

You can show your support on your social networks with these free profile images and Facebook Timeline photos below and by signing the petition on AmericanCensorhip.org.

To Download or Save any of the images below:
Right click on the image and select ‘Save File As’ from the menu options that drops down. Proceed to select the folder on your computer that you would like to save it to & save the file.

Profile Pictures:

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Facebook Timeline:

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Do you know how to create a high quality screen shot from your computer? No, you don’t need to get out your cell phone camera

One way to take a screen shot is simple. Basically, you push the CTRL button at same time as the PrtScn button on your keyboard. The screen will then be copied into your clip board & you can paste it into any image editing studio such as paint.

Another is via the Firefox add-on for screen shots called Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic (image above). This allows you to click a drop down menu & select either the full page or just the visible portion of the page. Once you have chosen to either make it a full page or just visible area, the image will then save as a .png image file. You can then choose to edit it or to use it as is. That’s it!

Working with Sitefinity 4.0 CMS has been a challenge & a great learning experience. The learning has mostly revolved around how the CMS works & figuring out how to meet the client’s requests without modifying the CMS itself. Therein lies the challenge.

While using this system, I have faced many difficulties in attaining the desired goals including but not limited to: adding multiple tags to the head section through the page title screen, and adding a custom user control through the user interface. Documentation on how to help yourself is limited by Sitefinity. There are a lot of default settings in place that are not modifiable by the user or developer.

So, where do we go from here? I have successfully deciphered their “help” for the user controls, you can find step-by-step instructions here – more details coming soon. As for adding multiple meta, script or css tags to the header: there is no solution as of yet. Currently there is a character count limit of 255 characters. You can view the Sitefinity Discussion thread here. If you are also experiencing issues in this area, please check back for a solution at a later date. I am still working on it.

Millions searches are going on right now from Google to Bing and everything in between. If only we knew what they were searching for, we could increase traffic to get the best impact with every article or blog post. Several major search engines provide a way to look at the search stream to find the most popular search topics, keywords and or tags.  Here are a several resources that will help you increase your search rank along the way.

1. Dogpile SearchSpy
   Up to the minute search information.
2. Google Trends
   Hottest 100 searches on Google.
3. Google Insights for Search
   Compare search terms against each other for a better keyword effect.
4. Google Trends for Websites
   Google Trends for website traffic data. Type in a website address to see visitors by region and related sites visited.
5. Google Hot Trends
   The top 100 fastest-rising search queries right now (U.S. only). Updates throughout the day.

Additional Resources:

1. Google Adwords Keyword Tool
   Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas.
2. Search Engine Watch
   Great resource for all things search engine.