Eugen Oprea

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Put Technology to Work for You

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Technology can make life easier. The amount of memory and power that can be carried around in a pocket matches what use to fit into an entire room just a few decades back. Learning the different tools and how to make the most of them will allow you to put technology to work for you, your business and your success.

The key to using technology is to balance the cost verses the benefits. Most of the advances of today can do something for a small business or for individuals, but sometimes the cost associated are better used for other needs. Look at what is saved in time or effort when putting the new technology into service.
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How to Rank Faster in Google Using Update Services

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When writing articles on your WordPress blog you want them to be indexed by search engines quickly and – why not – get a ranking faster.

But this is not always the case, because search engines choose when to visit your website to index it and especially whether to rank your articles or not.

However, there are some tricks you can use to let search engines know that you have updated your content.

And as a bonus you get a ranking faster, too.

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5 Lessons You Can Learn from Poster Design

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Poster design is a science. It is a broad field of art and marketing which is both highly creative and highly lucrative, and therefore much study and research has been invested into it.

You can benefit from those that have gone before you even if you’re not involved specifically in designing posters. The ideas and concepts that work for poster design can also be applied to many other fields of art and marketing such as website creation, blogs, and many other types of print work.

Here are a few lessons you can take from poster design and use in your field of expertise.
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10 Tips for Designing a WordPress Theme

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WordPress theme designers and web designers in general can make an attractive and functional design by making a comprehensive plan, designing the layout, knowing the source, starting with the default theme, and keeping the default CSS references.

In addition, they should maintain consistency, keep good navigation, provide easy accessibility, avoid distracting images, and enable comments.

So when you’re designing your own custom theme for WordPress, follow these tips for a theme that’s easier to develop, maintain and build upon.
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How to Install a WordPress Theme

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Updated August 06, 2012

Continuing with the WordPress tutorials series, today I will write about how to install WordPress themes on your blog.

Similar with the WordPress installation, there is an automatic and a manual way of doing it and I will cover both types of installation in this article.

Choosing a theme is an important decision for your blog, because you can either go for a custom design of your blog or choose a premium theme, such as Thesis, Genesis or Headway (aff links) which can be later customized.
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