A Day for Nike with Eve

"Another nice day it is!" Nike stretched himself with a yawn. Then he sprang up from the ground as if struck by a sudden idea.
"Well, it's time to find Mr. Tiger for helping me improve the speed." Nike patted his body, straightened his laces and strode ahead. This was his decision made last night and the decision also included learning jumping, leaping and swimming. Till now it was the three skills. Nike was walking and thinking. Without any warning, a hand of Eve appeared in the air overhead. In another second, Nike found he was in Eve's hand. Although he knew she would not change her mind easily, he would like to take his chance. So he tried to flee off her hand, but failed with any doubt.
"Oh, it's you. I am looking for you. Today I would like to show you around our garden. It's beautiful and I believe you will like it as much as we do. Look, it's a fine day. Let me think where we should start." Eve kept talking as usual and gave a serious thinking about the jumping off point.
"Ha, you know, really, really, thank you for your invitation to visit the garden, but I'm afraid I can't go." Nike said to Eve. Eve stopped and looked at Nike confusedly.
"I would like to ask Mr. Tiger for help to improve my speed." Nike explained more.
"Look, I' m ... I' m happy hearing that, but I really don't think it is a proper time to find Mr. Tiger for help because he hurt his leg on his way home yesterday. But don't worry. It's not a big deal. Just stay home several months and during this period I will take care for him. Anyway, I have been used to such kind of thing. And I think I can bring you to visit him when I send him dinner this evening. " Eve stopped for a deep breath and opened her mouth again earnestly, "And now, would you like to go with me"
"Well, maybe you're right. OK, let's go. "
Eve told Nike they were heading for the pond. After a few walk, a pond was shown up behind the wild reeds. Nike recognized this peaceful place at the first sight. They looked at each other with a understanding smile. "Yes, it is the place that I found you for the first rime. That time I was telling the little fish Adam's gift. Well, I like to share my happiness and sorrow with them. Maybe, this is why I always give the pond preference. So, what about you, Nike? Why did you turn up here that day? "
"Well, it was a long story. In a word, I was endowed with life by a witch and then something was wrong resulted in my coming here."
"Ha, miracles! You are really a great stranger!" Eve turned to Nike and screaming. Instinctively, Nike moved little to left. However, he found it was by no means a good response because he fell into the pond as a result. Firstly, he was totally caught by panic. Later, he realized there seemed something under his body to support him and carry him towards the land slowly. "Oh, my little fish, how lovely you are! " Eve smiled, walking into the water. Instead of picking Nike up to keep away from the water, Eve got some water into Nike's stomach as well as some little fish. Nike was almost mad until the fish in his stomach kissed him gently. "Look, they like you. They are kissing you."Eve said happily with eyes opened widely.
"Atishoo! Atishoo! Atishoo! Anyway, remember I am Nike."

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••••••>Hamptons vacation rentals and Shelter Island holidays

A well earned holiday in Hamptons vacation rentals can be a heavenly experience especially if your company is paying for it. Perhaps this award is something to work for over the year so that the family can truly enjoy a week or two of relaxation. The busy life of New York and the type of business one is engaged in could also be a reason for booking a nice cottage at this popular NYC resort. It does give you the benefit of being away from work but not too far away that any important event or meeting is missed! You could even arrange a day meeting at this or nearby meeting facilities offered to enable the guests to mix business with pleasure. A number of companies like to organize their annual sales meeting or conference at such holiday spots to take a welcome break from the daily routine. People do return all refreshed and happy after such a stay.

Another great retreat near the above mentioned location is the Shelter Island that provides the best in holiday entertainment and stay on the East Coast of United States. Shelter island vacation are so popular that one has to make advanced reservations and arrangements to enjoy a carefree stay in this delightful vacation spot. There is nothing like a holiday near the place of your work or your downtown apartment in NYC! A to Z of entertainment, relaxing walks, great sporting activities, swimming, sightseeing, and luxurious stay is the byword of Shelter Island hideaway! The romantic cottages are ideal for your family or friends get together and the stay will make you feel like returning again and again to this wonderful paradise of America. The landscape is one of the most alluring on this side of the world where you can enjoy all the luxury and "royal" hospitality of an European holiday, without even leaving the country. To learn more about these vacations you can contact or visit the websites of your favorite holiday agent and they will make all arrangements to assure you vacations that will forever remain in your memory, lingering on for a long time to come after you return!

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7 Major Factors Causing the Price Difference of LED Lights

The rapid development of LED lighting industry, all kinds of lighting tricks, and the price difference is quite obvious. There are large numbers of LED and LED lighting product manufacturers, use different quality LED is important reasons cause’s different LED lights. As the increasingly fierce price war, product with almost same appearance, structure, function, there are 2-3 times the price difference, many users get stunning moment in mind, do not know why such price difference has, generally LED lighting manufacturers does not produce LED light tube are difficult to distinguish, let alone consumers.

Therefore, they have a good selection of LED sources of production, or testing equipment has improved LED Lighting Factory would be better, so that LED lighting products purchased will be more secure.

What are the factors we look at the price differences caused by LED lamps:

1, the brightness

LED brightness is different from the price difference.

2, Anti-static capability

Longer life of the antistatic ability of the LED, higher prices it is. The LED is usually static than 700V can be used for LED lighting.

3, the wavelength

The same wavelength LED, and color, such as requiring the same color, the price is high. No LED spectral separation device manufacturer of products difficult to produce pure colors.

4, the leakage current

LED is one-way conductive light, if there is reverse current is called leakage, leakage current is large LED lights, short life, low prices.

5, Light emitting angles

LED uses different point of view of their different light. Special light-emitting angle and higher prices. Such as all diffusion angles, has higher price.

6, the life

Different quality is the key to life, life determined by the light failure. Lumen, long life, long life, high price

7, LED chip (wholesale LED lights)

LED's luminary is the chip, different chips, prices vary widely. Chips from Japan, the United States are more expensive, Taiwan

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A beginners guide to buying a Mountain bike - what you need to know

Taking up mountain biking is the best decision some people ever make – it keeps you fit, gets you out in the fresh air, and lets you escape from the mundanities of every day life. But buying your very first mountain bike can be a daunting experience. If you are a complete novice then the technical terms can result in a bit of a headache and utter confusion. Luckily help is at hand. Once you understand the jargon you will be able to choose with ease and purchase a bike which is suitable and right for you.

Unfortunately when you go into some bike shops you may find that their aim is to sell you the most expensive mountain bike they can, without necessarily explaining which one would be most suitable for your needs. And whilst it is understandable that bike shops would want to try to sell you the most expensive option it is important to realise that the most expensive mountain bike might not be the right one for you to buy. For this reason try to buy your first bike from a shop (online or a physical) which places a clear emphasis on customer service.

When it comes to mountain bikes then there are essentially two options to choose from. Hardtail and full suspension. These terms might not mean anything to you yet, but hopefully by the time you have finished this article you will be able to make an informed choice about which style is more appropriate for what you are looking for. A hardtail mountain bike is a bicycle which only has front fork suspension. And as you might have now guessed full suspension refers to the fact that these MTBs have front and rear suspension. In reality this means that a full suspension bike will offer you a more comfortable ride, but that a hardtail bike will be lighter and potentially more agile.

Now you know the difference you need to start to consider why you are buying a mountain bike, what sort of use it will get and how much money you want to spend. As a general rule these factors will make your decision for you. If you can find a shop which will advise you on the specifics of individual mountain bikes, well so much the better.

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••••••>We deliver your feelings

What is the easiest entity that is easily available yo gift someone and can be given to almost any of any age. Flowers are the best way to express your feelings. Flowers have the magic to cheer up the most boring and dull moments. Flowers can relieve you out of depression. It is very easy to show our feelings with out even putting it in words. When you are proposing to someone, a gesture of giving red rose is enough to say what the person feels and the other person just accepts the rose and tells portrays the feelings without uttering a single word. Flowers make every occasion very special. Can you ever imagine a wedding or some other special occasion without flowers?. And not only happy occasions, flowers are also used to express our grief and condolence in some sad occasions like death of a friend or family member.

In this busy life, where we are all running to make two ends meet, we hardly have time to purchase and select gifts for every occasion. And in this hectic schedule we hardly have time to attend the social functions. So where is the time to purchase the gifts. So what is the best, option you can think of, of course flowers are the most attractive and economic and convenient thing to give somebody on their occasions. But you have to go to the shop, look for the right flowers, then wait till the florist assembles the flowers, then he/she ties them up and then you put the tag and write the greetings. This situation demands a lot of patience and is very time consuming.

So is there a easier way to do this like the impact of the flowers is already there on the person's face for whom the flowers were meant for before you reach the party. Well yes, we have a answer to that, we provide the facility of delivering Flower Gifts basket anywhere in NY at your given time and date, and you can easily order by using your card to pay over the Internet. We have Flower Shops in NYC that make ordering a perfect set of flowers easier and accurate. So next time when you think of flowers, just remember, we know what you want from us at the best cost. Allow us to next time to deliver your feelings and smile on occasion which are very important for you,but somehow you fail to express them in right way.

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Advantages of Online Chemist Stores

From the past few days it has been noticed that getting medicines from the internet is gaining popularity these days. The expansion of online pharmacy stores was a significant innovation in the medication. These are a substitute to offline drugstores and compete with them in convenience and prices. The prominence of online chemists stores have become so high, that more and more owners of land based drugstores take a choice to build up internet sites for their business with an possibility to buy drugs online.



There are several advantages with these online chemist stores; one of the best attractive advantages of purchasing medical products in online pharmacy stores is effortlessness. However, as a replacement for going to the regular drug stores you have to enter the name of the required medical product in the search box and to make just a pair of clicks. Then you just wait till the ordered drugs are delivered to your place. One more vital benefit of internet chemist shops is reasonable prices on a long list of medical products.


oneclick is a well established and qualified FDA licensed pharmacist.The next generation of pharmacy is the online pharmacy, with the devastating growth of internet chemist this will create a new history in online shopping. In this competitive pharmacy business, if you want to survive you need to have a secured web site. http://www.oneclickpharmacy.co.uk


The subsequent advantage with these online pharmacy stores is that, they are offering exceptional sales and offers, so you may simply get all the drug products you require and save a certain amount of money. When you surf the online pharmacy store websites you will certainly pay concentration that there is a broad range of generic drugs provided by the stores at a reasonable price. Do not ignore that generic drugs have the similar active formula like patented medications with similar pharmacological effect and the same by actions, thus their use is as effective and safe as the use of the patented ones.



In case you are a beginner to obtaining drugs from on line chemists stores, pay attention. The most necessary move is the selection of reliable online chemist store.

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"How Does my Butt Look in This?" Brazilian Butt Lift 101

"How does my butt look in this?" This may be one of the most cliché—yet true-to-life—phrases used in American pop culture. If it seems as if TV and film have overdone the scenario of the woman (or man) worrying over their rear end in a full-length mirror, it’s only because it’s an issue that people continue to identify with. One need only look at the most recent statistics from American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS): 2009 saw a 37.3% increase in butt augmentation procedures, and a 24.6% increase in butt lifts, from 2008.

When it comes to augmenting the buttock, there are two choices: fat grafting (commonly referred to as a Brazilian butt lift or implants. When it comes to choosing between these two procedures, many plastic surgeons are beginning to move toward Brazilian butt lifts as their method of choice. What most patients want to know before making their decision, however, is: “Is it permanent?”

When it comes to butt implants, there is no definitive answer; regardless of the skill of the surgeon who placed them, implants sometimes experience complications such as wound break down, infection, fluid accumulation around the implant, and malposition of the implant. When it comes to Brazilian butt lifts, however, the answer is yes—if done properly.

In a Brazilian butt lift, a plastic surgeon uses liposuction to remove fat from another area of the body, often the stomach, hips, or thighs. Low-pressure aspiration is utilized for the liposuction, in order to protect the fat cells being removed and to keep them viable. Once removed, the fat is carefully processed, separating the live cells from the other fluids present, then injected into the buttocks in small quantities to contour and enhance them as desired.

Brazilian butt lifts differ from butt implants in that the material used to sculpt and enlarge the buttocks is 100 percent natural—the fat injected comes from your own body. Surgeons have more control over the shaping, because they are working with multiple injections rather than one, solid implant, and the butt feels more natural than it does with implants. The procedure is also less invasive and is less likely to involve complications: With butt implants, the incision made to insert the implant runs the risk of becoming infected, especially when it is made within the fold of the butt cheek.

As with many cosmetic procedures, the success of a Brazilian butt lift is most dependent upon the skill of the surgeon performing it. Harvesting fat and treating it for re-injection is a sensitive process, and how well the fat “takes” in the months following the procedure is tied to how well it was handled to begin with. It is also important that the patient follow their surgeon’s advice carefully in the weeks following the procedure; sitting too much, or exercising too soon, can have negative effects upon the end results of the lift.

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8 Ways to Create a Happy Family

You might disagree and say, “Martin what are you writing now?” But hear me out on this.

I believe finding happiness and success are more than just money.

If you are not finding happiness in your family, this is to remind you that you have the power to improve your life within your family.

Here are Martin’s 8 ways to create (or re-create) a happy family:

1) Start with yourself. Finding happiness starts by deciding that you will create the loving spirit that can create a happy family. Develop an energy and personality where simply your spirit and presence will heal others and rejuvenate your family.

2) Look at yourself. Ask yourself this question and give yourself a true answer: “Am I contributing to family happiness or unhappiness?”

3) Heal within any feelings of mistrust or anger. This can seem to be an impossible task. But it is achievable and vital to finding happiness and success.

People make mistakes. Some make them only once. Others repeat their mistakes over and over. Each person is doing the best they can at the emotional intelligence level they have achieved.

If someone is being hurtful, blameful, angry or attacking, they are living at a very low emotional intelligence level. That doesn’t mean you need to live in this painful place with them.

Practice treating everyone in the family with love. You may not be able to be around them because of their chosen personality or behaviors. You can pray, intend or send loving energy to them. They will receive it and the power of love will heal them in remarkable ways, often better than we could have dreamed.

4) Choose to live in the upper six levels of your Life Guidance System. You have 21 emotional levels. Fifteen create what you don’t want and six emotional levels create what you do want. People ask me, “Martin, how can I live in the emotional levels that create more of what I want and result in finding happiness?”

Don’t be a part of family problems. Heal yourself and become a cure. Don’t tell your family you have chosen to do this. Just do it. They will notice the difference. Your newly chosen emotional levels will create positive results. With your lead and example, your family members can learn to love and respect each other.

5) Encourage high regard for each other. Teach, by example, that each family member accepts all others and lets each be who they are.

With some wisdom and insight, it is easy to see how people’s personalities have developed. Even if you are repulsed by someone, it is possible to see why they act as they do.

When the development process and history of their personalities is respected, even the most difficult people lighten up. When people feel understood, they no longer feel the need to defend. Love and acceptance of each person’s history will create the feeling of goodwill and real understanding.

6) Have no certain expectations chiseled in stone. Rather, expect the best and be open to what that manifests as. When we expect something certain we are often limiting the outcome by our own limited thinking.

Do not expect everyone to change at once or that it will come easily. For some the change seems immediate, for others it can take time. For some healing will seem effortless, others will need to hit rock-bottom before they begin. For some letting go of harmful beliefs, hurtful thinking and destructive prejudices happens gradually, sometimes only after personal pain or disasters.

This is sometimes a challenge because we want things right now. Many times I say to myself, “Martin, why can’t these other people do the right things?”

Pray their healing will be a safe, loving and wonderful experience. The most important element is that someone must start the healing. It will pick up for others from there.

7) Believe in assistance from a Higher Power. This is a non-religious, non-denominational, spiritual step. Miracles can and will happen for those who ask for help from a Source of 100% pure light and love. Choose actions and options that are 100% pure light and love.

8) Intend only the best for each family member. One person using their power of intention by sending energy of 100% pure light and love to other family members, though he or she may do it without others knowing, will in time see others are motivated to improve their lives.

When the intention of 100% pure light and love becomes a family practice, members will grow deeper in spiritual connection and have an easier time finding happiness.

So here is what Martin believes. Ultimately, you can change even the toughest family situation for the better. You can help family member experience success and help yourself in the process of finding happiness.

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5 Secrets to Turn on any Ecommerce Site

Whenever we talk regarding ecommerce, we generally focus towards earning profit and if at all the site is incapable to derive the expected profit then, probably we end up with criticizing! However we never think that some constraints if improved seriously then, lot many things can be changed and eventually profitability can be increased.



Developing an Ecommerce site needs a lot of issues to be handled at the same time. Ecommerce sites in order to grab the attention of online world need to be well designed as because people get attracted by the luring design first and then, they navigate through the site. Keeping every key point into consideration, here are five secrets that will undoubtedly help you in designing the ecommerce site and thereby will enhance your online business.



5 Secrets:



The five scenarios that can be taken care of are as follows:


• Site Planning:


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Before designing any site, you need to plan out everything. You should have the project framework so that you can proceed without any hassles. Planning and implementing at the same time is not possible, one needs to have the plan before starting up with the designing.



• You are Different:


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How you are different to the world? This is the question online visitor will ask you every time they visits your website. In order to mark your presence in online world, you need to offer something different through your ecommerce business. When you are trading online, you are anyway competing vast competitors, so to be on the top you need to beat others through your services that you are offering via your ecommerce websites. Try to grab some unique features, which will make you different from others. This way, you will increase online traffic rate and finally the business profit.



• Site Navigation:



This is the feature, which needs to be incorporated in order to make the website's navigation smoother. People generally prioritize that website where he/she can find things very easily. After all everyone dislikes 'searching', isn’t it!



• Payment Gateway:


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This is something every entrepreneur waits for and every customer ignores of! A payment gateway should be very secure, so that customers can share their payment card details and it has to be ensured that those details should be kept confidential in order to avoid any vandalism.



• CRM Database:


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Database should be well managed and maintained as, it increases the comfort of the user to input the data and to manage the data securely. Thus, a well managed database helps in data analysis, data mining etc.



If you feel all these points are not feasible for you to indulge into website being an amateur then, the door of ecommerce web Development Company is always open for you. You approach anytime and get the service instantly!





OpenXcell Technolabs is involved in Ecommerce web solution and Mobile Application Development Services for iPhone and Android. It offers a team of dedicated developers and other professionals, who offer their intellect to formulate the required end product.

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Rules of meeting and making friends online

With the busy schedule of today's life more and more people are meeting and making friends online. Finding friends online has many advantages over the finding friends offline. It takes much less effort and there are no geographical boundaries in making online friends.

Where to find friends online?
There are many places to meet friends online. One of the most effective and popular way is through social networks. The whole phenomenon of social network is based around online friends. People find new friends online through their friend's friends, or other people with very similar interests or thoughts. It also doesn't require so much formal introduction to make online friends. You can simply send a friend request and the other party can simply look at your online profile to decide if they want to be friends with you or not.

How to approach friends online?
Although technically most social networks do not require you to make a proper introduction when making a new friend. Request, there are some common rules you should follow when you are trying to make friends online. You do not want to seem like a complete stranger or creep when making a friend request. Most people do not like to add strangers or random people as their friends. One of the most common ways to not seem so strange is by finding something interesting on the user's profile and making a comment on that. For example, if the other person is a photographer it would be great to admire some of their work while requesting them to be your online friend. You should at the minimum try to introduce yourself and explain why you would like to be their friends.

Things to avoid with online friends

Although there is a lot of excitement when you find great online friends but you should always be careful about few things unless you have known your online friends in the past. Do not share your personal email, phone number or physical address with friends online in a new friendship. The biggest problem with friends online is that anybody can pretend to be anybody. So it hard to fully trust someone else unless you have known them from a long time. Therefore sharing your personal information with new friends online.is not recommended. If your friendship gets deeper and you decide to meet your friend in the real world for the first time, try to choose a public place such as cafe or restaurant rather than in some isolated place or at someone’s home. Once you have met in a public place and bonded, it may be safe to share more personal after that.

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5 qualities or things that you need to look into an event photographer.

Many people thought that event photography is just for fun but let me tell you it is not right as event photography is not merely for fun but it also for making an event more attractive and beautiful. Event photography is becoming part of our life as any event is incomplete without event photography.


I think we all have been to a party. Have you seen an event photographer at a party? I know the event photographer visited here and there for clicking photos. If you are arranging a party then surely you need an event photographer. Event photographers are the masters or professionals of event photography fields. Event photographers will help you preserving your precious moments as every person desires of keeping his special moments alive. If you really want to do so then hire an event photographer now.


If you have made up your mind for hiring an event photographer then you need to take care about certain important factors as you need to look at their qualities. There are some qualities that every event photographer should need to have. Well some of these qualities are:


Skill: Skill is the first quality that every event photographer should need to have. Hire an event photographer by seeing his skills as skills enable a man to become a professional. A skilled and professional event photographer will really help you preserving your special moments. Not only event photographers but every professional should need to have this quality.


Attitude: An event photographer should need to have good attitude. I know photographing in a wedding is irritating but what you can do it is your job. You need not to loose temper. If you really want to show good results then you need to have good attitude.


Portfolio: A portfolio is such a thing that very photographer must have as the portfolio will help you getting good event photography project. This portfolio will help the customers in knowing the performance of an event photographer as portfolio includes event photographer’s work. All the customers hire an event photographer on the basis of portfolio. So, hire a photographer after seeing portfolio.

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how to choose a dentist Ft. Lauderdale

A dentist fort Lauderdale is one of the most important doctors that you will ever go to. A dentist fort Lauderdale is not only concerned with filling your cavities but also improving your overall health, starting with your teeth. There are probably many different dentist fort Lauderdale offices in your area. Each dentist can offer you a different experience so it is important to choose a dentist that you feel comfortable with. The dentist must also be able to have the skills that will help you with the needs you have.

The first step in choosing a dentist is asking around. There are many people around you that you can ask about advice on a dentist Ft. Lauderdale. Many people have a dentist that they have gone to for many years. Your friends and neighbors will be able to tell you about their dentist fort Lauderdale and if they recommend the dentist for you. Your family and friends are good people to ask about a dentist because they have your best interests in mind and would hopefully not send you to a bad dentist Ft. Lauderdale.

Another way you can find a dentist is by using the Internet. Online you will be able to find a lot of information on the dentist you are looking for. You will be able to search for a dentist
that is close to your home or place of work. The Internet is a good place to research a dentist because you can find online reviews that can tell you about the dentist fort Lauderdale and the patient's experience at the dentist fort Lauderdale office. Make sure you read the reviews before choosing a dentist to go to. You will need to keep in mind that the reviews for the dentist are probably from people you do not know and may not have your best interests in mind.

Choosing a dentist fort Lauderdale based on price alone is not the best way to choose your dentist Ft. Lauderdale. There are many more important factors that can go into making a good dentist. Some of the things that you need to make sure your dentist has are: up do date tools and technologies, up to date training, good patient relationships, and honesty and integrity.

A dentist should be using the newest and most advanced technology to take care of your health. The technology that is available to your dentist is constantly changing, and while it may be expensive for the dentist fort Lauderdale to keep up with the change, it is important for you to get the most up to date care. Make sure that your dentist is constantly going to different training and seminars. This will ensure that your dentist fort Lauderdale knows the newest tricks and care options available to you.

Choosing a dentist is not an easy process. If you are having trouble finding a dentist that you trust you should keep looking. You should never feel obligated to stay with your dentist if you have a bad experience. A dentist should be someone you trust with you health and you deserve nothing less.

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WordPress Features

WordPress is a powerful personal publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. We are proud to offer you a freely distributed, standards-compliant, fast, light and free personal publishing platform, with sensible default settings and features, and an extremely customizable core.
Contents

• 1 License and Platform
• 2 Managing and Administering the Weblog
• 3 Publicizing Your Work
• 4 Customizing the Design
• 5 Creating Content
• 6 Archives and Search
• 7 Discussion and Comments
• 8 Creating and Managing a Blogroll

License and Platform

• License : WordPress is licensed under the GPL.

• Platform : PHP (v4.3 or newer) and MySQL(v4 or newer) are required.

Managing and Administering the Weblog Locally Installed WordPress is designed to be installed on your own web server, or shared hosting account, which gives you complete control over the weblog. Unlike third-party hosted services, you can be sure of being able to access and modify everything related to your weblog, in case you need to. This also means that you can install WordPress on your desktop or home computer, or even on an Intranet. Portable Core You can choose to have the tree of wordpress related files, which form the back-end of your publicly displayed weblog, be in the same directory as the weblog or in a different directory. For example, if you want your weblog at http://example.com (public_html – the public “root” of your webserver or hosting account) and you want to store the wordpress related files and directory tree in http://example.com/wordpress (public_html/wordpress), you can! UTC friendly WordPress allows you to define your time as an offset from Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), so that all the time-related elements stored in the database are stored as GMT values, which is a universal standard. Among other things, this helps you display the correct time on your weblog, even if your host server is located in a different time zone. User management WordPress uses user-levels to control user-access to different features, so you can restrict the ability of individual users to create or modify content in your weblog, by changing their user-level. User profiles Each user on your weblog can define a profile, with details such as their email address, instant messaging aliases etc, if they want to. Users can also control the way in which their details are displayed on the weblog. Easy installation and upgrade WordPress’ famous 5 minute install can’t be beaten for simplicity and ease of use. Upgrading your weblog to the latest version of WordPress is easy, too, and it should take less time than the installation! Dynamic page generation No rebuilding of all your pages each time you update your weblog, or any aspect of it. All pages are generated using the database and the templates each time a page from your weblog is requested by a viewer. This means that updating your weblog, or its design is as fast as possible, and required server storage space usage is minimal. Internationalization and Localization You can now create a weblog that is localized to your choice, and delivered in a language of your choice. The gettext method is used to translate and localize WordPress to the fullest extent.
Publicizing Your Work Feeds The RSS 1.0 (aka RDF), RSS 2.0 and ATOM specifications are fully supported by WordPress, and what’s more, just about any page on your weblog has an associated feed that your readers can subscribe to – there’s a feed for the latest posts, for categories, comments, well, like we said earlier, for anything you want. The more options your readers have to keep track of different sections of your weblog, the easier it is for you to spread the word around the world. WordPress also fully supports RSS 2.0 with enclosures, so adding mp3 files (such as podcasts) to your RSS feeds is a snap. Cruft-free Permalinks The URLs for all the pages in your weblog can be made to conform to a standard, cruft-free system, and all the links are structured, sensible, and understandable to human and machines, and that includes search engines. Clean URLs are essential for search engine optimization and an improved user experience. Inter-blog Communication In an increasingly connected world, WordPress comes ready for PingBack and TrackBack, two very useful ways of connecting to other weblogs, and to enable them to do the same.
Customizing the Design Template Driven Design WordPress uses templates to generate the pages dynamically. You can control the presentation of content by editing the templates using the Template Editor tool and the Template Tags Template and File Editor Every installation of WordPress comes with a file editor you can use to edit your templates and other WordPress related files, right in your browser without having to worry about downloading and uploading the files in order to edit them. Template Tags Template tags make it easier to design the content and information displayed on your weblog. You don’t need to be a PHP whiz to design your weblog. Themes You can skin your weblog using readily available themes, or styles. You can also create and share your own themes. Plugins Plugins extend the core functionality of your weblog. A large number of user-developed plugins are already available and can be used to do virtually anything you want to, with your blog.
Creating Content Password protection So you want to share something with some people, but not everyone? Easy, protect the article in question with a password. Post Slug If you are using clean PermaLinks on your website, you can define the link to an individual post by using a post-slug. Post to the future You can write a post today and have it appear on the weblog at a future date, automatically. Multi paged posts If your post is too long, cut it up into pages, so your readers don’t have to scroll to the end of the world. File/picture uploading You can upload pictures or files, and link to them or display them in your articles. You have the option of creating thumbnails of pictures when you upload them. Categories Organize your posts into categories, and sub-categories, and sub-sub categories… Emoticons WordPress is smart enough to convert character smileys, like “:)” into the graphical image counterparts. Save Drafts Save your unfinished articles, improve them later, publish when you’re done. Previewing Posts Before you press the “Publish” button, you can look at the preview for the article you just wrote to check if everything is the way you want it. In fact, you can do that at any time, since the preview is “live”. Desktop Tools You don’t have to use a browser to update your weblog, you can use any desktop blogging tool that supports the MetaWeblog or Blogger API. Blog by email You can send your posts as an email and have them appear on the weblog. Bookmarklets Add the “Press It!” bookmarklet provided by WordPress to your browser and you have a shortcut to create an article with a link to the page currently displayed on your browser! Sidebar If you don’t like a bookmarklet, use our friendly browser sidebar, which can be used in a similar fashion. Formatting Think of WordPress as something that makes your words smoother, and your pages more appealing. WordPress ships with text-formatting plugins that clean up your content and add typographic goodness to your articles.
Archives and Search Archiving After you’ve been blogging for an extended period of time, what matters is how well your posts are organized, and for that, WordPress provides you with several ready made options to display the archives of your blog, containing all the old posts. You can choose from yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, category-wise or author-wise archives, and easily link to the archive pages from the main page (or any other page) of your blog, using a template tag to generate the links to these archive pages. Since WordPress generates pages dynamically, all these archive pages come at no additional space-cost to your server. Searching WordPress has a functional built-in search tool, which allows visitors to your blog to search for terms they are interested in, and the search-hilite plugin that ships with WordPress can highlight their search terms, so it is even easier for them to find what they were searching for. In addition to this, the plugin also does the same for someone who arrives at your blog by clicking at a search result in a search engine, such as google. All in all, searching is fun, with WordPress.
Discussion and Comments Community Building WP is not the YMCA, but it does help build communities around weblogs, through the use of comments, trackbacks and pingbacks, helping you keep in touch with the audience and fostering friendship Allowed html tags Not everyone is evil, but keep those who are in check by limiting which html tags are kosher on your weblog. The default html tags allowed by WordPress are a sane choice to let people use html in their comments, without compromising the safety of your data or server. Moderation For the control freak in all of us, WordPress provides an array of moderation options. You can moderate

• all comments before they appear on the blog
• comments with specific words in them
• comments posted from specific IP addresses
• comments containing more than some specified number of links.

All these moderation options keep spammers and vandals in check. Notification WordPress can keep you in the loop by sending you an email each time there is a new comment or a comment awaiting moderation.
Creating and Managing a Blogroll Blogroll The blogroll is where you link to the blogs you read frequently – a friendly way of acknowledging the good blogs out there. WordPress’ built-in Links Manager allows you to add and manage links effortlessly Bookmarklet The effortlessness begins with a neat bookmarklet that you can add to the bookmarks or favourites in your browser. Adding a link to an interesting blog or website is as simple as clicking on the bookmark or favourite when you visit the blog or website the next time! Categorizing The links in your blogroll can be categorized and neatly organized Importing If you already have a list o’ links as an OPML file, you can import it to your WordPress blog. For those coming from other blogging tools, this means that you can import your blogroll from Blogrolling.com and never use a third-party service to manage your blogroll, again. Exporting Did we say you can also export an OPML file with your list o’ links? Displaying As with everything else, you get some neat template tags that enable you to display your blogroll the way you like – in alphabetical order, ranking order, the order in which they were updated – you get the idea

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Business Blogging is just ONE Marketing Strategy

Most Marketing Programs Work This is a myth put forth by some marketing consultants and debunked in the book “Marketing Myths that are Killing Business”, by Clancy & Shulman.  Truth is it is hard to tell if a marketing program is working.  Well, that is until the internet and business blogging.
Enter Google Analytics When we blog for business, we keep our topic focused.  That topic gets good initial visibility on the search engines and using the FREE Google Analytics software, we can measure the effectiveness of the posting.  If people are digesting your content AND visiting another page on your company website, then your business blog marketing strategy is working…  However, if the phone does not ring then one might conclude that the effort failed.
Business Blogs Gather Traffic Your website makes the case for people to call.

• Use your blog to capture keyword focused search engine visibility
• Provide value to the reader in the form of knowledge they can use
• leave the selling to your other Web Pages

All to often we, as business owners / operators, panic when we see lots of web traffic but not phone calls.  This is a business matrix.  Find the most common page visitors read next, after your business blog posting.  Have a trusted friend read the second page and ask them this question:

What, if any, action are you inspired to take?

If the answer is none, then you have found the failure in your marketing program.  Modify the page and repeat the process.  In business, we improve that which we measure.  Use Google Analytics to measure your marketing effort and keep adjusting until your phone starts to ring.

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How does my blog bring me new customers?

Business blogging increases search engine visibility through keyword focus in a text based presentation.
So how does a small business use their blog to find new customers?
A typical mistake is to write about your great deal, product features and benefits, or all the money one can save.  Those are called sales pitches.  American consumers do not like a sales pitch.
Write about your customers, your passions, your history in your profession, ways your product improves lives, your charitable efforts, and your feelings.  Yes feelings.
All things being equal, people prefer to do business with people they know and like.  Keep it professional and avoid any topics you wouldn’t discuss at a Chamber of Commerce meeting in a mixed crowd.  Writing about your feelings is not writing a diary, rather your feelings as they pertain to your chosen profession.
Your blog can be a product announcement, so long as you say so right up front.  Mixing press releases, product announcements, research and development progress with personal growth in your business will help give your readers some insight they can not find anywhere else.
Unlike all other forms of print media, your business blog is an informal marketing medium where you can lower your guard and speak from your heart.  When you, you’ll find the comments and feedback you receive will go a long ways towards increase customer connections and higher search engine rankings.
Ed Zenith Exhibits, Inc.

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