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		<title>WordPress Posts VS. Pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most asked question about WordPress that I get is on the difference between a WordPress Page and a WordPress Post. The two are often misused wrongfully. Here are a few pointers to assist in better understanding the difference. WordPress pages are just static or you could say the posted elements are not often moveable [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The most asked question about WordPress that I get is on the difference between a WordPress Page and a WordPress Post. The two are often misused wrongfully. Here are a few pointers to assist in better understanding the difference. WordPress pages are just static or you could say the posted elements are not often moveable or changed. With the WordPress pages, you really don’t change them unless you have more information that you want to add to them, or, you wish to change something that is already there. For instance, a contact page is not going to change that often because your contact information might never change. But as for a page like a portfolio or a picture album you might end up adding, deleting or changing items monthly.</p>
<p>The main thing that you have to notice is that the WordPress page, whether it is a &#8216;portfolio page&#8217; or a &#8216;contact page&#8217;, will be set for long term that is it won’t have a extreme change, and if it does, you are changing it up.</p>
<p>As for a blog post or post, you might be creating these every day. They are supposed to be informative and/or updates about the topic that you write about on your blog. For example, you are a school and on your main page is your blog. Well, you may want to keep talking about various things about your school, hence frequently posting updated information on the school. For instance, if this coming Sunday, the your school will be playing a team that they might just be able to beat, updates on the blog could include information about the people, the upcoming game with maybe stats on the players and other any other interesting stuff about the game. That way if the your school looses the game that post will not be on the school&#8217;s blog page for a long time. At least it is only there until another post update is made.</p>
<h3>Pages Versus Posts</h3>
<p>There are five real reasons why pages are different than posts.</p>
<ol class="decimal">
<li>They are not involved with the blog.</li>
<li>You can use different page templates with them.</li>
<li>Pages are static text, they don&#8217;t change often.</li>
<li>Pages can have a hierarchy</li>
<li>Pages can have sub pages inside there main pages.</li>
</ol>
<p>So your pages really have nothing to do with your blog. They are static text and don’t change that often. They are not time dependent. Most of the time these pages include (about, contact, services, and other informative pages about your site).</p>
<h3>Posts In View</h3>
<p>Posts are primarily meant for updating and link building. You use your posts to gain traffic to your site through SEO, SEM, and other means. With posts you tend to make regular entries into your blog, unlike pages, you need to change your posts almost weekly if not a couple of times a week. Most of the time your blog post show up on your home page in a certain order. More times than not the order is constructed by date of the post. With the newest posts at the top of the page and the older get put to the back of the list. Blog posts use categories and tags to organize your posts. Given the categories and tags each are automatically given a RSS feed so that you may get updates on the groups.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>If you need assistance with web design, web development, search engine optimization, editing, content creation or marketing done to one of your sites please feel free to contact me or Chosen. Chosen is a small, but growing Lansing-based firm offering Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, Web Editing, and Web Marketing skills. We have done work for clients and companies, by preference, but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you. </p>
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		<title>jQuery Hover</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a developer I hate the fact that Internet Explorer is not up to date with their web browser. For instance the w3 has approved that you can use the :hover selector on anything not just a tags. Now most browsers do support the :hover selector but IE. Why they can&#8217;t catch up with times [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a developer I hate the fact that Internet Explorer is not up to date with their web browser.  For instance the w3 has approved that you can use the :hover selector on anything not just a tags.  Now most browsers do support the :hover selector but IE.  Why they can&#8217;t catch up with times and be like everyone else is beyond my comprehension.  Well one really useful thing to fix this problem is jQuery Hover.  You can use jQuery Hover to give any object a hover state and it will work in IE and all other browsers.  Also you can have jQuery pull out the a tags href from inside any element.  For instance if you have some blocks with different information that you want to link to a certain page all you will have to do is make a box and call the a tags href.</p>
<h3>jQuery Hover State</h3>
<p>So to show you how to do this I am going to use my site under my main post on the homepage I have some of my recent post.  Now I want to have the full post area to have a jQuery hover state that changes the background.  So I would do this.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="js" style="font-family:monospace;">$(document).ready(function() {
    //call the jQuery Hover Over and Out
    $('#YOURID').hover(over, out);
    //Tell the browser to change the background when hovered over
    function over(event) {
        $(this).css(&quot;background&quot;, &quot;url('Path To Your Image')&quot;);
	$(this).css(&quot;cursor&quot;, &quot;pointer&quot;);
    }
    //tell the browser to change the background to nothing when 
    //going outside the object area
    function out(event) {
	    $(this).css(&quot;background&quot;, &quot;&quot;);
	}
});</pre></div></div>

<h3>jQuery Hover with a click event</h3>
<p>If you want jQuery to do a hover state only then that will work for you but if you want to get the a tags href, so that when you click on the object area it will take you to that page.  You would have to add this after your jQuery hover code.  So now your jQuery code should be.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="js" style="font-family:monospace;">$(document).ready(function() {
    //call the jQuery Hover Over and Out
    $('#YOURID').hover(over, out);
    //Tell the browser to change the background when hovered over
    function over(event) {
        $(this).css(&quot;background&quot;, &quot;url('Path To Your Image')&quot;);
	$(this).css(&quot;cursor&quot;, &quot;pointer&quot;);
    }
    //tell the browser to change the background to nothing 
    //when going outside the object area
    function out(event) {
	$(this).css(&quot;background&quot;, &quot;&quot;);
    }
    //This adds the click event to your object and tells it where to go
    $('#YOURID').click(function() {
	window.location=$(this).find(&quot;a&quot;).attr(&quot;href&quot;);
    });
});</pre></div></div>

<p>This is very useful to get around the IE problem and if someone checks your site they can see that you know jQuery.  If you need any help with this just let me know.  I would be more than willing to help.</p>
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		<title>How To Install Magento Themes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest and best e-commerce shopping carts is Magento. Magento has a free version at Magento Commerce. This system can be quite confusing when you are trying to change your theme. It isn&#8217;t like most other systems where you get one folder and all you have to do is upload it and activate [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the biggest and best e-commerce shopping carts is Magento.  Magento has a free version at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/download">Magento Commerce</a>.  This system can be quite confusing when you are trying to change your theme.  It isn&#8217;t like most other systems where you get one folder and all you have to do is upload it and activate it.  I have put together a walk through on how to install/change your Magento theme.</p>
<p>First off you have to go out and find a Magento theme.  Some of these are quite expensive but come with much more than just your typical free one.  The first place I would check for themes is <a target="_blank" href="http://ecommerce-themes.com/">ecommerce-themes</a> they have quite a few really nice looking themes for you to download.  After getting your theme, it should come in a zip file extract those on your computer.  Inside the extracted folder you should get two folder called app and skin.<br />
The next thing you have to do is add those folders to your Magento installation.  This requires you to ftp into your site.  The app and skin folders go in different places.  The app folder needs to be uploaded to your <b>magento/app/design/frontend/default</b> directory and your skin folder needs to be uploaded in your <b>magento/skin/frontend/default</b> directory.</p>
<h3>Magento CMS Manage Pages</h3>
<p>Now that you have these folder in your Magento site we have to go through the admin to tell the site to use the new theme.  First log in to your admin and go to the CMS tab and them manage pages.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.shanestrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Magento-CMS-Pages.jpg" alt="Magento CMS Pages" title="Magento CMS Pages" width="400" height="250" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-994" /></p>
<h3>Custom Design Pages</h3>
<p>Inside there you will have to change every pages custom design to your new theme name you installed.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.shanestrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Magento-Custom-Design-Pages.jpg" alt="Magento Custom Design Pages" title="Magento Custom Design Pages" width="400" height="153" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-995" /></p>
<h3>System Configure Design</h3>
<p>Next you will have to go to the System tab and then Configure.  Inside the Configuration section go under Design and change all of the relevant fields to your new theme name.  Make sure you save everything and your theme should be up and ready to go.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.shanestrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/System-Configure-Design.jpg" alt="System Configure Design" title="System Configure Design" width="400" height="231" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-996" /></p>
<h3>Magento And  Hosting</h3>
<p>Something that I would recommend would be getting a server from peer1 hosting.  They have managed private cloud servers with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.peer1.com/hosting/private-cloud.php" title="vm ware hosting">vm ware hosting</a>.  This will make it easy to work with multiple operating systems and have a great IT support team on call 24/7/365.  For more information check out peer1.com private cloud documentation and pricing.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you. </p>
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		<title>How To jQuery Toggle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[jQuery was made to change the way that you write JavaScript. jQuery has tons of really nice effects that you can experiment with. One of my favorite things to do with jQuery is to do a toggle this is a really simple effect to do but will make people go WOW when they see it. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>jQuery was made to change the way that you write JavaScript.  jQuery has tons of really nice effects that you can experiment with.  One of my favorite things to do with jQuery is to do a toggle this is a really simple effect to do but will make people go WOW when they see it.  You can use the toggle effect in multiple different way most of the time people just use the toggle up to down or toggle left to right.  But some people don&#8217;t know that you can use jQuery toggle to go from your upper left or right corner to the opposite corner.  Well here is some code that you can reference on different ways to toggle.</p>
<h2>Lets do the easy toggles first</h2>
<h3>Top To Bottom</h3>
<p>I am doing this for the comments section of most WordPress sites.  First you have to give the identify what the outer most container is of your comments section.  Mine is id comments.  So just to the top of my comments section I need to create a button but you don&#8217;t have to use a button it is just the easiest to explain.  So you should have something that looks like this.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="html" style="font-family:monospace;">&lt;button id=&quot;comments_bottom&quot;&gt;This Is A Toggle Button&lt;/button&gt;
&lt;div id=&quot;comment&quot;&gt;
//Your Comment Code
&lt;/div&gt;</pre></div></div>

<p>You will notice that I gave the button a id that is so that jQuery can find it.  Next you have to create your js file.  I would name it something like toggle.js.  It should look like this depending on which way you want your content to toggle.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="js" style="font-family:monospace;">//Top To Bottom
$(document).ready(function() {
	$(&quot;#comment&quot;).hide();
	$(&quot;#comments_button&quot;).click(function() {
		$(&quot;#comment&quot;).animate({height: &quot;toggle&quot;}, 1000);
	});
});
//Left To Right Or Right To Left
//In order to do either you must float your #comment 
//the direction you want your content to come from!
$(document).ready(function() {
	$(&quot;#comment&quot;).hide();
	$(&quot;#comments_button&quot;).click(function() {
		$(&quot;#comment&quot;).animate({width: &quot;toggle&quot;}, 1000);
	});
});
//Upper Left To Lower Right Or Upper Right To Lower Left
//These ones you also have to float from the direction 
//they are coming from!
$(document).ready(function() {
	$(&quot;#comment&quot;).hide();
	$(&quot;#comments_button&quot;).click(function() {
		$(&quot;#comment&quot;).animate({width: &quot;toggle&quot;, 
                    height: &quot;toggle&quot;}, 1000);
	});
});</pre></div></div>

<p>Now all you have to do is call your jQuery script and a jQuery library and your toggle up to down should work.  I use the Google library because of how quick it is.  You can find more info about the Google library here  <a target="_blank" href="http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/documentation/">jQuery Library</a></p>
<h3>Other Ways To Toggle</h3>
<p>There are a few other ways to do a toggle like from bottom to top and bottom corners to top corners.  There is also some other things that you can do with toggle like fading.  jQuery has a lot of really easy and light things that you can do to your site to make it just that much better.  If I were you I would take a look at their site <a target="_blank" href="http://jquery.com">jQuery</a>.</p>
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		<title>Build A Website Traffic Jam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people look at their website and go why am I not getting traffic to it. Well if you just look at the site it won&#8217;t build any traffic. My question to you is would you like to have a traffic jam on your website. I would because that means my site is getting so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most people look at their website and go why am I not getting traffic to it.  Well if you just look at the site it won&#8217;t build any traffic.  My question to you is would you like to have a traffic jam on your website.  I would because that means my site is getting so much traffic I am going to have to upgrade my servers.  Wouldn&#8217;t that be great so much traffic that your server crashes.  Most people have no idea on how to create traffic to their site let alone just doing that basics to gain traffic.  Well I am going to give you a breakdown of some of the basics to building traffic.  Just so you know building traffic takes time and sometimes money.</p>
<h3>Traffic Meta Breakdown</h3>
<p>Back in the day all traffic came from your meta tags and your keywords.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong these are still very useful but they don&#8217;t build you as much traffic because of the millions of website out there.  To give you an example I would love to be the number 1 site on Google for web design well that really isn&#8217;t practical it is possible but when you search <strong>web design</strong> you get 343,000,000 that is how many pages are being crawled with the words <strong>web design</strong>.  Now I am not saying don&#8217;t try to get to the top of the list.  Defiantly try but try for something a little smaller like for instance I am from Michigan and so I am trying to get top for <strong>Lansing Web Design</strong> and <strong>Michigan Web Design</strong>.  If you search Lansing Web Design I am close to the top.  Now if I use keywords like that and try to focus on a smaller scale my site will rise on the bigger scale.<br />
Your keyword meta tag is important but you have two other tags that are even more important your title meta tag and description meta tag.  Your title meta tag is different from your normal title tag because it is what the browsers look at first and way a lot of their decisions on.  The regular title tag is also very important it should be used everywhere that it is possible.</p>
<h3>Best Ways To Produce Traffic</h3>
<p>Here is a list of some really good ways to build traffic to your site.<br />
1) Submitting &#8211; You must submit your site to search engines.<br />
2) Use a favicon.ico<br />
3) Depending on what your site is about submit it to other sites with that kind of material.<br />
4) Have a lot of content.  This still has to be good content.  Pictures really bring in lots of traffic.<br />
5) Use your META tags effectively. <a target="_blank" href="http://webnet77.com/webstuff/optimize.html">META help</a><br />
6) Advertise with google or other advertising companies.<br />
7) Use Social Media by talking about your site.</p>
<p>Probably the fastest way to get traffic to your site is pay per click.  Yes it is going to cost you but in the long run of things it will be worth it.  Some people think that after doing these things your site will just magically appear at the top of Google or Yahoo but it won&#8217;t.  Building a vast amount of traffic takes time and some times money.</p>
<h3><a target="_blank" href="http://chosendevelopment.com">Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</a></h3>
<p>If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact <a target="_blank" href="http://www.chosendevelopment.com">Chosen</a>. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.chosendevelopment.com">Chosen</a> is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.</p>
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		<title>Choosing A CMS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Website Planning What is it that you are looking for in your site? What would you like your site to do? How often are you planning on updating your site? Would you like to have the ability to change your site? Well these are some of the questions that we ask a client that comes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Website Planning</h3>
<p>What is it that you are looking for in your site?  What would you like your site to do?  How often are you planning on updating your site?  Would you like to have the ability to change your site?  Well these are some of the questions that we ask a client that comes to us wanting a site.  Most people don&#8217;t understand that their is much more to a site then just having a idea of &#8220;I need a site&#8221; or &#8220;my company needs a site.&#8221;  With these questions that I have asked it starts me thinking would it be better for my client to have a CMS or not.  A CMS is a Content Management System it is used to give the buyer the ability to make small changes to the site pages in case they may need to change some text or something little.  Once I find out that my client may need a CMS then comes the point of giving the client a CMS that will work with their needs.  For instance if a client came to me and said that they would like a site that has a blog area that they could update daily.  The first thing that comes to my mind is WordPress.  Let alone WordPress is very user friendly it has so many capabilities and plugins that are free.  If my client came to me and said that they would like a site that they would only have to change about every 6 months or more.  I would probably look at either building the site with static information or using a smaller CMS.  My personal preference would be Frog CMS.  It is easy to learn and is easy to customize because of its small size.  Their are a lot of different opinions on what is the best CMS.  I don&#8217;t really think their is a &#8220;best&#8221; I feel that it really depends on the situation and the developers preference.  A short list of some of the free CMS&#8217;s out their:</p>
<h3>Most Known</h3>
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<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://drupal.org/">Drupal</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.joomla.org/">Joomla</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Not So Known</h3>
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.madebyfrog.com/">Frog CMS</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki">Media Wiki</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://typo3.com/">Typo3 CMS</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://moodle.org/">Moodle</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.boonex.com/products/dolphin/">Dolphin</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.pligg.com/">Pligg CMS</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.movabletype.org/">Movable Type</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.xoops.org/">Xoops</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.geeklog.net/">Geeklog</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://e107.org/news.php">e107</a></li>
<li>Mambo</li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://nucleuscms.org/">Nucleus CMS</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>My Opinion</h3>
<p>This is just a few of the vast amount of CMS&#8217;s out their that you can choose from.  Note that all of these are free open source CMS&#8217;s.  I have mt own opinion about these CMS&#8217;s and I believe even though Drupal and Joomla are two of the biggest CMS&#8217;s they are two of the most complicated.  I personally would stick with WordPress for blog sites and for smaller sites I would go with Frog CMS but this is my personal opinion.  I would say defiantly try out multiple CMS&#8217;s to see what you build a preference to.  If you have tried out any of the CMS&#8217;s on the list or any that are not on the list please feel free to leave a comment about them.</p>
<h3>Web Design And Development</h3>
<p>If you by change need web design or web development done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact <a target="_blank" href="http://chosendevelopment.com" title="Chosen">Chosen</a>.  Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm.  We are small but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills.  We have done work for clients and companies.  We prefer client work but we also take contract work.  We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California.  We would love to hear from you.  </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Release 2.8 With the new release of WordPress 2.8 the developers really took in what people had to say and made some vast changes to the content management system. One of the biggest changes that the team made that the end user and really the admin won&#8217;t really see is the database changes. The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>New Release 2.8</h3>
<p>With the new release of WordPress 2.8 the developers really took in what people had to say and made some vast changes to the content management system.  One of the biggest changes that the team made that the end user and really the admin won&#8217;t really see is the database changes.  The WordPress team made the database much more efficient and much faster that allows for faster page load in the admin and load for the site.  WordPress added some much needed functionality that helps the developer perform much faster.  Some of those changes include.</p>
<h3>Functionality Changes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Theme and Plugin Editor</li>
<li>Theme Installer</li>
<li>Plugin Management</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Changes</h3>
<p>These are just some of the changes that WordPress implemented in the 2.8 release.  All three of these changes speed up the development process on creating a theme for a site.  I will be the first one to say that I use previously developed themes and recreate off of them because it is much faster just to use already created code.  With using a already created theme it used to be a pain to have to ftp into your site and add the theme into the theme directory for your site.  With the implementation of the Theme Installer you can upload a theme in its zip file or you can search the WordPress database for a theme.  Much faster than having to go out and download the theme and then upload it to the theme folder.  Now I have always been against using the theme/plugin editor that was built into the content management system but now that it is changed I have been using it for little changes but I still use a outside code editor.  They made some great changes with it like the ability for line numbers and the function dropdown at the bottom of it.  The new creation of how you manage plugins is great with the ability to deactivate each plugin individually and delete each one without having to go to the top of the page and click the dropdown and select delete.  Probably the best thing with the plugin managment upgrade is the update feature that allows you to update each plugin right there.</p>
<h3>Stuff Not Really Noticed</h3>
<p>WordPress has implemented quite a few thing that the end user will not really notice but will be really affective like the ability to automatically update time when it is daylight savings time.  Also the ability to control the columns on the dashboard page is also a plus for the admin so they can stay updated with whatever it is they have on the dashboard.  Another little change that helps the admin users is the recreation of the widget panel.  Now with more intuitive activity, it makes it easier to add widgets to the sidebars.  One of my favorite things that WordPress implemented is a popup banner to inform the admin that they have not changed the auto generated password.</p>
<h3>Your Questions</h3>
<p>The only question about this new installation of WordPress is what could they possibly do to the platform next to make it even better?  If you have any ideas and don&#8217;t want to submit them please leave a comment on the post and I will submit them for you.</p>
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		<title>WordPress Functions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress is the top in Blogging Content Management Systems by far with its vast following and well known product. Not to mention WordPress has some of the best functionality for the end user. I have talked a little in the past about WordPress and how to set in up and how to create parts. Well [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress is the top in <strong>Blogging Content Management Systems</strong> by far with its vast following and well known product.  Not to mention WordPress has some of the best functionality for the end user.  I have talked a little in the past about WordPress and how to set in up and how to create parts.  Well now I really want to get into the heavier insides of WordPress.  Things that maybe the majority of end users will not understand.</p>
<h3>Most Valuable Function</h3>
<p>I am going to start off this functions post talking about probably the most heavily used WordPress function called <strong>bloginfo</strong>.  This is a really useful function if you can understand it.  It is quite easy to start the function because it is built in to WordPress all you have to do is call the function and give it what parameters you would like it to have.  The code to call this function looks something like this &lt; ?php bloginfo(&#8216;YOUR PARAMETERS&#8217;); ?&gt;.  As you can see it is quite easy to call this function but in order to understand what you can do with this function is another hurdle.</p>
<h3>List of the Parameters</h3>
<ul class="half">
<li>admin_email</li>
<li>atom_url</li>
<li>charset</li>
<li>comments_atom_url</li>
<li>comments_rss2_url</li>
<li>description</li>
<li>home</li>
<li>html_type</li>
<li>language</li>
<li>name</li>
<li>pingback_url</li>
<li>rdf_url</li>
</ul>
<ul class="half">
<li>rss2_url</li>
<li>rss_url</li>
<li>siteurl</li>
<li>stylesheet_directory</li>
<li>stylesheet_url</li>
<li>template_directory</li>
<li>template_url</li>
<li>text_direction</li>
<li>url</li>
<li>version</li>
<li>wpurl</li>
</ul>
<p>Well that looks like a long list of stuff but a lot of those come in handy quite often.  I am not going to go into what they all do but I will talk to you about a couple of them so that you have some idea of what you can do with them.</p>
<h3>Most Common Parameters</h3>
<p>The first one that I am going to talk about is the url.  Well to me this one is self explanatory what this does for your site is echos out the url of the site.  So if your site is http://www.example.com then the bloginfo function for url would echo out your url.  So if you needed to do an a tag and you wanted to echo out your url all you would have to do is say  now a lot of people would look at that and say why wouldn&#8217;t I just write my url in their instead.  Well if you write your url in there it will only work for your url and so if you are creating a theme then you wouldn&#8217;t be able to sell this theme.  now I am going to move on to another parameter known as name.  All that this does is echos out what you called your blog and you can change this inside the admin section of WordPress.  So a practical use for this would be putting it inside of the a tag that we just used so it would look like this &lt;?php bloginfo(&#8216;name&#8217;); ?&gt;.  That way if you named your blog EXAMPLE the link would say EXAMPLE.  The last parameter that I am going to talk about is description this is also known as your tag line.  You can also set this up inside of the admin section of your blog.  This comes in handy quite often in the header and footer sections of a site.  Mainly because almost every company has a tag line or MATO that they try to emphasize on.  So by saying &lt;?php bloginfo(&#8216;description&#8217;); ?&gt; you can plaster your MATO all over your site.  Well that is my last example for you I really hope that you start messing around with the other parameters because they can come in really great use to you and your site.</p>
<h3>Additional Help &#8211; Chosen LLC</h3>
<p>If you are in need of some help with your WordPress site or any other web related issues you can either contact me or you can go to the Chosen Development site for more help.  We are based out of Saint Johns, Michigan and we specialize in Design and Development we do seminars in the Lansing Area on all different types of web information.  Chosen is a growing company of about 8 people 4 full time and 4 part time.  We would love to hear from you about possible Design or Development work and if you are from the Lansing Area we would be willing to meet with you.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 19:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Windows 7 Microsoft next operating system is out to the public yet again. Microsoft did something that was not normal when they released the different Beta versions to the public. Now Microsoft has released the release candidate to the public as well. This is normally something that only gets released to the MSDN users. When [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Windows 7 Microsoft next operating system is out to the public yet again.  Microsoft did something that was not normal when they released the different Beta versions to the public.  Now Microsoft has released the release candidate to the public as well.  This is normally something that only gets released to the MSDN users.  When you download the release candidate it comes with a activation key that is good from when you activate it to June 1, 2010.  This is almost 5 months after the actual release date is for Windows 7.</p>
<p>Windows 7 has came a long way from Windows Vista with a much smaller and faster system.  The system requirements are almost smaller than what was needed for Windows XP.  Here are some of the computer requirements necessary for Windows 7 to runs.</p>
<h3>For the Basic Windows 7 -</h3>
<ul>
<li>1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor</li>
<li>512 MB of system memory</li>
<li>20 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB available space</li>
<li>Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory</li>
<li>DVD-ROM drive</li>
<li>Audio Output</li>
<li>Internet Access</li>
</ul>
<h3>For the Premium Windows 7 -</h3>
<ul>
<li>1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor</li>
<li>1 GB of system memory</li>
<li>40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space</li>
<li> Support for DirectX 9 graphics with:</li>
</ul>
<ol>
<li> WDDM Driver</li>
<li>128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)</li>
<li>Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>32 bits per pixel</li>
<li>DVD-ROM drive</li>
<li>Audio Output</li>
<li>Internet Access</li>
</ul>
<p>If you would like to check out Windows 7 for your self you can go to:</p>
<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default.aspx">Windows 7 Home</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/whats-new.aspx">Windows 7 What&#8217;s New</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/videos.aspx">Windows 7 Videos</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx">Download Windows 7</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Some of the new feature&#8217;s to Windows 7 are state of the art and very cool and creative.  My favorite is the Aero Shake.  Please take a look at Windows 7 and share your input about what could change and be advanced.</p>
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		<title>About Shane Strong</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 07:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that you really don&#8217;t see on most blogs is a really good place to get to know the owner. Well this is because there really isn&#8217;t a easy way to do this. Yeah you have your about page and maybe people can contact the owner and get to know them. Well I know [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One thing that you really don&#8217;t see on most blogs is a really good place to get to know the owner.  Well this is because there really isn&#8217;t a easy way to do this.  Yeah you have your about page and maybe people can contact the owner and get to know them.  Well I know I wouldn&#8217;t do that, maybe read the about page but that is it.  So in this post I am going to tell you some stuff about Shane Strong me.</p>
<p>I grew up in a little town called Olivet this town is about 30 min south west from Lansing Michigan.  I went to school there all my life.  I was that kid that everyone was friends with but I didn&#8217;t really have all to many good friend.  Maybe this was because I only wanted two of three close friends.  All through out school I was really good at math and science but I was not the greatest when it came to reading, spelling, or history.  I started playing a lot of sports in 7th grade and found that I liked them quite a bit.  I was playing <a target="_blank" href="http://www.myshopping.com.au/PT--257_Personal_Fitness_Basketball__fs_13246_e__">basketball</a>, track, and golf.  Most of my child hood I was set that I would become a electrical engineer and build up to be a nuclear engineer.</p>
<p>Then high school happened.  I was still into sports trying out for Golf, Basketball, and Baseball.  Most of my school time was set to getting better at sports.  I was really fixed on golf.  It was a sport that my grandpa taught me before he died and I guess it was because of him that I became such a great golfer.  I player basketball for my freshmen ans sophomore years in high school but couldn&#8217;t make the cut my junior or senior year.  I played baseball my freshmen, sophomore, and senior years.  Took off the junior year so I could get better at golf.  That was my real charge in high school.  I became a Varsity player my sophomore year playing almost every game and if I wasn&#8217;t playing on Varsity I was number 1 on JV.  My Junior year of golf I dropped 2 strokes on my game and was driving the ball about 310 yards.  Ending the season the number 1 player on the team and getting awarded all-conference 1st class.  That means I was in the top ten of all the players in our league.  My senior year rolled around and I was pumped ready to become the number one player in our league.  I started the year up one stroke from the year before but driving the ball about 315 yards still not bad but that one stroke would kill me.  I finished the year out in 5th place still getting all-conference first class and MVP of the Olivet team and Captain award.  Both Junior and Senior year for some reason I would choke at the regional round and not make it to state.  Not the worst thing ever but no one had ever went to state in golf for Olivet and I could of been the first.  I really feel that my biggest set back was that I wanted the Olivet golf team to get bigger than just me and didn&#8217;t focus quite enough on my personal game.  Well of all my high school year my senior year was the best I broke up with my horrid girl friend that was holding me back from quite a few thing.  I took 2 college classes Calculus 2 and Intro to Information Systems.  Then it was time to graduate and I really was still stuck wondering what am I going to do next.  Of the two Colleges I submitted my application to three contacted me back.  Michigan Tech and Ferris State University.  Oh yeah the third Olivet College they wanted me to go there because of what I did in the two classes well I was there.  I actually had the opportunity to take a course that wasn&#8217;t offered there and I would have my own personal teacher.  I ended up choosing Ferris why that was I couldn&#8217;t tell you but that is for another day.</p>
<p>Well that was the start of my life in a quick nut shell.  I will inform you next time how I became a Web Developer and owning a business.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I find that WordPress is quite a easy system to understand as long as you know how to code.  If you do not know at least HTML, CSS, and PHP then you probably should not read anymore and learn these languages before thinking of trying to create a WordPress theme.  Most WordPress themes are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well I find that WordPress is quite a easy system to understand as long as you know how to code.  If you do not know at least HTML, CSS, and PHP then you probably should not read anymore and learn these languages before thinking of trying to create a WordPress theme.  Most WordPress themes are made up with certain pages these are 404, archive, comments, footer, functions, header, index, page, search, searchform, sidebar, single, and style.  All of these pages are PHP pages except the style sheet which is a CSS page.</p>
<h3>Pages List</h3>
<ul>
<li>The 404 page is your error page which I will talk about a little later.</li>
<li>The archive page is for when you search.</li>
<li>The comment page is for your comments.</li>
<li>The footer page is for your footer.</li>
<li>The functions page is for any functions your would like to create.</li>
<li>The header page is your header for every page.</li>
<li>The index is your home page so that it can have a different layout than all the other pages.</li>
<li>The page page is the layout page for all the pages you create in the admin.</li>
<li>The search is the layout for the page when you search for something.</li>
<li>The searchform is just what you have the search form doing.</li>
<li>The sidebar is creating the sidebar so when you add it to pages it will go through the functions.</li>
<li>The single page is for when you click on a post it will take you to the single post.</li>
</ul>
<h3>To Have Successful Theme</h3>
<p>All of these pages are a must for you to have a successfully working WordPress theme.  There are quite a few thing that you can do with these pages and other pages that I will talk about some other time.  With everything that you can do with these page it will take much more than one blog post to explain so I am going to leave the first one short and sweet.  I am going to go into a somewhat step by step walk through on how to make each page.  One of the first thing that I would do as a new theme developer is find a free theme somewhere on the web preferably wordpress.org/extend/themes and if you would like to make this easy search for <a target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/wooden-default">wooden default</a> and this is my theme that is really simply and easy to understand.  Now that you have your theme take a look at the pages in your theme folder you should either have all of these pages or more.  If you don&#8217;t have these pages I will eventually teach you how to create them.  Well I am going to leave everyone with this task and post the next part in a couple days.  If you do not download my theme please leave me a comment on what one&#8217;s you do download.  Or if you are a designer and would not like to take the time to develop a theme please feel free to send your mockups/psds over to me and I will develop the theme.  Of course I will host it on my site and expect a link to my site in the footer.  But that is standard for all themes.</p>
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<p>If you need assistance with web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites please feel free to contact me or Chosen. Chosen is a small, but growing Lansing-based firm offering Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing skills. We have done work for clients and companies, by preference, but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.</p>
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		<title>Don&#8217;ts When Making A Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have came up with a list of some things not to do when making a site. Use Stylesheets whenever you are able to, limit the number of inline styles that you use. Don&#8217;t rely on flash for key functionality. Don&#8217;t use to much flash or java script because it will bough down your site. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have came up with a list of some things not to do when making a site.</p>
<ul>
<li>Use Stylesheets whenever you are able to, limit the number of inline styles that you use.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t rely on flash for key functionality.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t use to much flash or java script because it will bough down your site.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t make a perfect design with no content.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t have a lot of content with bad design.</li>
<li>Use a easy domain name that can be remembered.</li>
<li>Use text rather than images where you are able because it will increase you search engine rank.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t make the site hard to navigate.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t make the site a small font but don&#8217;t make the site a big font either.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t make a site without a goal already set.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t steal designs from someone else, you may reference them but don&#8217;t copy.</li>
<li>Use clear names for your links, that way people know where they are going.</li>
<li>Use a font style that is not heavily used.</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t use colors that make your eyes go crazy.</li>
</ul>
<p>Well that is my list of things not to do.  There are a lot of people out there that think colors are a really big thing and they are right.  If you have a site that catches someones eye and has a catchy name then people are going to come back to the site.</p>
<p>If you have anything to add to this list please comment away and I might add them to the list of don&#8217;ts.</p>
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		<title>How to get Backlinks?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to build your site&#8217;s page rank and position is with backlinks. Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. These incoming links or backlinks are a really great way to boost your Search Engine Optimization or SEO. There are many different ways to build backlinks some of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the best ways to build your site&#8217;s page rank and position is with backlinks.  Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page.  These incoming links or backlinks are a really great way to boost your Search Engine Optimization or SEO.  There are many different ways to build backlinks some of the most common are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Web Directories</li>
<li>Friends and Colleagues</li>
<li>Personal Interest</li>
<li>Blogging</li>
</ul>
<p>Most people would look at this list and think what does that mean well I am going to tell you.  Web Directories are places that you can submit your website and have it on display inside that companies database of sites.  A lot of times these places have a paid and non-paid submission process.  This means that if you take the free non-paid one you will be put on a list of maybe hundreds of sites that have to go through a inspection process to see if your site is a fit for the directory.  This could take somewhere from 1 to 6 months.  The reason it takes so long is because most of these places only charge like $5 to $25 for the paid submission and anyone who pays gets put at the front of the list.</p>
<p>Friends and Colleagues this is kind of self explanatory you meet someone and enjoy what they have so you put a link on your site to there stuff.  This creates a backlink for them.  If you look at the top of my site I have some of my colleagues and companies most of them are broken down into multiple links to more than just there home page.  This will create a back link for more than just the main page.<br />
Personal Interest this is one that you might say what does that mean.  Well I give it this name because it means sites that you personally like.  If you find a site that you enjoy give them a back link weather it be in a post or somewhere out of site.  This will boost there rating and sometimes if you contact that specific person and ask them to put one on there site they might just because you did.</p>
<p>The last way that I create backlinks is blogging this is probably one of the best ways to create backlinks but also one of the less profitable.  How you make backlinks is start posting on specific peoples site just with little comments like feedback and or other creative criticism.  Once that person sees that you have been commenting on there site so much they will end up checking your site out and either you will get some great feedback or they might talk to you about backlinks.</p>
<p>Well I am just throwing this out there if there is anyone who has a site and would like a backlink send me a email or comment here I will check out your site and see what I can do about giving you a backlink somewhere on my site.</p>
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		<title>Accounting Client Billing System</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working with a small business there are a lot of things that you need but don&#8217;t have the money to purchase them. I have found that most small businesses Quickbooks is something that is a must have. But what else is there I find that Quickbooks is even to big for the normal start-up business [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Working with a small business there are a lot of things that you need but don&#8217;t have the money to purchase them.  I have found that most small businesses Quickbooks is something that is a must have.  But what else is there I find that Quickbooks is even to big for the normal start-up business or even the mom and pop business.  I am currently in the process of building a accounting/client/Billing system.  This will eventually be open to the public for a price but I am going to open it up to a select amount of people just so that they can try it out and give me feed back on what they like and dislike or changes and errors that it is having.  I was thinking on opening it up to about 25 people for testing by this summer.  In this next month I would like any input on things that you feel a small business needs.</p>
<p>One of the aspects that I am going to have this do is make it so that you can register possible client and actual clients.  With the actual clients this will allow you to register client and keep track of money that has been received from them and money that is still in the waiting.  I felt that something that would be useful is a emailing system that sends you a email that a client needs to make a payment and it also sends a email to the client so that they know.</p>
<p>Another aspect that I am going to have this do is calculate the taxes on money received.  Also a place for you to input expenses.  I have a lot to do with this and would love input on the subject I would like to have this out to the public by this summer.  I am at first building this to my needs and then building it to everyone&#8217;s needs.  If you would like to send me any helpful info you can send it to accounting[at]shanestrong.com or you can write a comment about it.</p>
<p>In order for me to fund this project I need some help.  Donations would be great you can send the via paypal to shanestrong05[at]gmail.com.  Or if you have any web design or web development work you can contact <b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.chosendevelopment.com">Chosen Development</a></b>.</p>
<p>I am currently looking for a full time job in the web design industry.  Preferably somewhere in the Lansing Area.  I consider myself highly skilled in XHTML, CSS, and WordPress other skills are MySQL, PHP, Java, VB, and currently learning ASP.net and ASP.  If possible I would like to become a Lansing Web Developer somewhere in the Lansing Area.  I feel that the Lansing Web Industry is going up even though it is a little slow right now.</p>
<p>Thanks You For Your Help</p>
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		<dc:creator>selgon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a web developer from the Lansing Area of Michigan. I have found that more and more people are using WordPress as a platform not just for blog sites but for personal sites, professional sites, e-commerce sites, and many more. In my day to day life I code in WordPress probably at least half [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a web developer from the Lansing Area of Michigan.  I have found that more and more people are using WordPress as a platform not just for blog sites but for personal sites, professional sites, e-commerce sites, and many more.  In my day to day life I code in WordPress probably at least half of it.  One of the things that I have found that helps me with WordPress is to have a local development server that I can develop on.  I have found that most of my development comes first from a Wamp server.  This is also known as a Windows Apache MySQL PHP server.  This post is to show everyone how to install a Wamp server with WordPress on it so that you can have a local development environment.  I am going to show you how to do this in just 5 easy steps.<br />
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1) Well so of the first things that you need is to download the WAMP server software and you can do that here <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wampserver.com/en/">WAMP</a>.<br />
2) After you download this now you should install it I would install it to the directory that is specifies which is C:/wamp.<br />
3) After you have done this now you will have to download the newest WordPress package.  At this current time it is WordPress 2.7.1.  When you get this it will be in a .zip file.  Extract this to the folder C:/wamp/www.  All of the files will come in a folder called WordPress you can either remove them from the folder and put them one directory higher or you can leave them.  I would recommend leaving them just in case you want to put some more sites in the www directory.<br />
4) After that you have to open up the wamp server and go to phpMyAdmin.  In order to do this you have to left double click on the wamp icon on your desktop and this will open up a icon in the lower right hand corner.  Left click on that icon and select phpMyAdmin.  Once the phpMyAdmin window is open there will be a field for creating a database.  Put in a name and push create, you can name it what ever you want.<br />
5) Well this is the last step all you have to do is open a browser and type in localhost/wordpress if you left it in the WordPress folder and if not it will just be localhost/whatever folder you put it in.  This will bring up a window that asks you for all of your information.  You will have to provide the database information.  Your database user name will be root and password will be blank, unless you have change them.  After giving the information that they ask for it will install automatically.<br />
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And that is it now you have a Wamp WordPress Server.  Somethings that you might need to know is that when you want to use the Wamp Server you have to double click the wamp icon on your desktop.  The Wamp server will not start up automatically.  Thank You to all the readers and keep on developing.  If you have any questions just leave me a comment or go to my contact page most of the time I will respond quick.</p>
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