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Thursday
Dec132012

IFTTT: If This Then That -- social-media tool

This was mentioned in an unrelated thread, so I wanted to put it out front in case you missed it.

Passed along by member Sean Poppe, this app is called IFTTT...

Wednesday
Dec122012

Stop comic scrapers with this simple code

Passed along by "How To Make Webcomics" co-author Dave Kellett, here's a simple way to stop people from scraping ["hotlinking"] your comic.

Tuesday
Dec112012

What's working... and what's not

As I did last year, I thought I'd share some things I did this year and discuss their effectiveness.

Last year, my list looked like this:

This year, I experimented with several plug-ins and third-party add-ons to my site -- in part because I wanted to be able to speak intelligently about them here. Here are a few thoughts on how some of them have worked out:

What's working

SCRIBOL

14 BLOCKS

WIBIYA

CONTEXWEB

What's Not Working

FACEBOOK RSS FEED 

GOOGLE PLUS

What's kinda working

KLOUT

Here's my list for this year:

Monday
Dec102012

Google DFP set-up

Thanks, mainly, to the helpful video that member Chris Hanel posted in the Private Forum, I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with DFP. In the spirit of the long-running tradition of "I screw up so you don't have to," here's a brief overview of setting up DFP right the first time.

Friday
Dec072012

Friday Archie Dive: Handling last-Minute Holiday Orders

Today's Archive Dive is from Dec. 12, when member Jules shared an excellent tip on how to handle a last-minute order from your store that is intended as a gift.

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