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Does your web site have a terms of service or privacy policy?  Now, there are many web sites on the Web that really do not require these two documents to be posted, but there are many that could be helped by getting these legal terms posted too.  To help you out I have found a place that will help you generate both for your own web site or business, for no cost to you.

Get Your Legal Documentation Done Easily!

Once you load up the legal document builders, they are very easy to use.  An online entrepreneur only needs to fill out the basics about their web site or business, and the web site wizard takes care of the rest of the work.

Once you are done, the documents you need are returned to you via the Internet automatically, along with an HTML version of the code, so you can easily post it into your own web site’s pages.

You can check out both tools here:

• Privacy Policy Generator
• Terms of Service Generator

Having a good set of legal documentation on your web site to cover your assets is a good thing to go ahead and get covered.  Now, I am far from a lawyer, nor do I play one on the Internet, however Legal River seems to be willing to help with these two form builders to get you pointed in the right direction when it comes to setting up a privacy policy or a terms of service agreement.

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Original post by Mitch

WordPress is finally providing a blog text editor that they can be proud of.  As of the most recent release, I have switched from using a desktop client to write blog entries to the WordPress web site interface.  That isn’t to say it hasn’t been without problems.

One issue I saw was that the text and picture alignment (left, right, and center) was not working.   However, this is a very simple thing to fix, if you aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty with some stylesheet work.

The problem is that the WordPress post and page editor uses its own CSS code to change how your page or post gets presented.  So if it is not in place already, copy this snipit of code into each of your WordPress themes to fix your alignment problems.

Here is the code you’ll want to copy and paste into your theme’s stylesheet:

img.centered, .aligncenter, div.aligncenter {display: block margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; }

img.alignright { padding: 4px; margin: 0 0 4px 5px; display: inline; }

img.alignleft { padding: 4px margin: 0 5px 4px 0; display: inline; }

.alignright { float: right; }

.alignleft { float: left; }

Feel free to edit that as needed, to fit your own design preferences. Your theme is found at:

/wp-content/themes/nameoftheme/stylesheet.css

That should get you basically to the right spot.  Depending on the theme, stylesheet name might change. Also “nameofthetheme” should reflect the name of the WordPress theme you are using.

If you are having a hard time getting your images and content to align as you have specified in the built-in WordPress editor, this should do the trick.  Just remember to upload the changes, once you have put them in place.

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Original post by Mitch

People often say it is a good idea to register domain name typos.  Why?  Well, when somebody accidently types in the wrong domain name, you want to make sure they still get to your web site at large.  For example, did you know Google has Gooogle.com registered?

To help you find some of the domain names to register we have ErrorNow.  To use this domain name error search tool, all you need to do is type in your domain name, hit the TAB key and then hit the button labeled, “Make Error” when it is available.  Once you do, you’ll get a number of different options like this: 

There are just some of the results I got when I searched for my own domain name, mitchkeeler.com. 

For now only 2 types of errors are caught:

• Errors made by forgot to type a character
• Errors made by press a nearby character

Once you have made a list of some that you would like to register – you can leave the ErrorNow site, login to your Customer Account Page at Lunarpages, and register them to use with the web site you have with us. So the next type somebody accidently types in the wrong domain name, you can easily send them to the right web site, your web site.

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Original post by Mitch

Using Twitter in combination with your WordPress powered blog? 

There are tons of tools and plugins you can take advantage of to make that mix of micro-blogging, and regular blogging mix into a presentation anybody (and I am sure everybody) will enjoy. 

To help you get started, here are the 25 highest rated Twitter related plugins you can install into WordPress.

1. WordTwit – WordTwit is a plugin that utilizes the Twitter API to automatically push a published post to your Twitter account as a tweet.
2. Add Twitter – Displays your public Twitter messages or someone else’s for everyone to read on your blog.
3. Tweet Chopper – A very simple and basic widget that shows tweets for multiple authors and trends.
4. Advanced Twitter Widget – Widget that will enable visitors to give you/the site a virtual beer by clicking on the widget.
5. Tweelow Plugin – Simple plugin that displays count of your twitter followers.
6. Bird Feeder – Tweets about your posts when they are published.
7. WordPress Dashboard Twitter – The most creative name, WordPress Dashboard Twitter, in fact represents a Dashboard Widget for WordPress, that turns your Dashboard into a Twitter client.
8. Tweetable – Integrate Twitter with your WordPress blog. Automatically tweet new posts, display your latest tweet in your sidebar, etc.
9. Related Tweets – Using your blog as the seed, find quality content from the Blog Traffic Exchange and tweet it automatically.
10. sm00sh URL shrink – A plugin that converts all URLs in a post or comment into shorten URLs using a link shortening service.
11. wpCommentTwit – Use Twitter to receive notices of comments when they are left on your WordPress site.
12. Zipli-Retweet – Adds a re-tweet button to all WordPress posts in your blog and update your twitter account with post from your blog.
13. Lifestream – Streams your activity from over 50 different sources to your blog.
14. WP Quote Tweets – Allows authors to quote Twitter updates in posts or pages using a simple short-code.
15. Thread Twitter – Thread Twitter fetch your tweets and display them in thread style.
16. Twitter Publisher – Share a new blog post on Twitter using awe.sm or bit.ly url shorteners.
17. dB Twtpoll – This plugins adds a short-code for embedding polls from Twtpoll really easy.
18. Twitter News Feed – Collects Tweets based on specific Twitter usernames and hash-tags and then adds them as posts.
19. WP-TwitterSearch – Displays the latest results based on a twitter search. Options include setting multiple search terms and limiting tweets shown.
20. Twitter Tools – Google Analytics Tagger – Tag all your URL’s posted to twitter with Google Analytics tags using Twitter Tools.
21. WP to Twitter – Posts a Twitter status update when you update your WordPress blog or post to your blogroll.
22. Twitter Bubble – A sidebar widget showing the latest twitter update in a nice talk bubble, suitable for wide sidebars.
23. Feed2tweet – Feed2tweet plugins allows you to publish your new posts to your twitter account.
24. Commentwitter – Gives commenters the option of Tweeting their comment with a link to your post.
25. Tweefind – Displays tweets related to your posts, ordered by rank. Admin Options -> Tweefind.

Have another favorite that didn’t make it onto the list?  Be sure to leave a comment and share it with the rest of us.  As a bonus, be sure to check out the Twitter page on badges and widgets you can add with no plugins needed. 

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Original post by Mitch

Did you know that Lunarpages also provides a way for you to purchase what would be considered, premium domains?  These are domain names that go for top dollar because they are in very high demand.  For example, what blogging teacher wouldn’t enjoy having the domain blogteacher.com?  All you do is type in the keyword you are looking for, and then hit the “Go” button. 

To access our premium domain shopping tool, check out our domain name registration page, and then click on the tab labeled “Premium Domains”.  You can pick up a regular domain name registration from here too, for as low as $12.95 per year. 

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Original post by Mitch

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