To finish up WordPress week I thought I would go over how to secure your WordPress site to prevent those with malicious intent from hacking you. People put a lot of time building their site and don’t bother with any type of security. This is the equivalent of building a house and not putting doors on it. While some of you may enjoy this lifestyle those of you who don’t will definitely benefit from this guide.

We are very pleased to bring you our third giveaway of the week. Today’s contest is going to be a bit different since we are not going to have one winner but three!

Today I am going to list my Top 10 favorite WordPress sites. These sites are great for WordPress tutorials, tips, tricks, news and anything else to do with everyones favorite CMS/blogging software. It is safe to say that if you need to know something about WordPress one of these sites is going to have the info you are looking for.

We are continuing our giveaways for WordPress week, today we have a premium WordPress themes from Press75. Press75 has been making great looking WordPress themes since 2008. If you are in the market for a new theme you should check them out.

The plugin system WordPress uses is one of the things that makes it such a great platform. You can use plugins to customize functionality of your WordPress site to do practically anything you want. There are well over 12,000 plugins that can be found in the WordPress plugins directory. You can find plugins for everything from managing SEO to adding a contact form to your site to selling mail order brides (check local laws before doing this). There are two ways to install plugins. I will go over both methods.

We are very excited to announce that our first giveaway for WordPress week is a one year unlimited access pass to Elegant Themes. If you are not familiar with the work of Elegant Themes then please go check them out now. If you are familiar then you know how awesome the WordPress themes they offer are.

It goes without saying WordPress is extremely popular and thanks to applications like Fantastico the installation is practically effortless. Back in my day when we weren’t walking to school up hill both ways in a snow storm without shoes we were manually installing WordPress. While these one-click apps you find in your hosing control panels are nice I think it is a good idea to learn how to install it manually first. Once you are comfortable with the manual installation you can choose to use one of these auto install programs if you wish. So lets get to it!

It is hard to believe Black Friday is only a week away and because of this it is time to start asking the tough questions. Questions like: What are the best deals? Where are the best deals? and Why don’t they call it Black and Blue Friday? Seriously though, why don’t they? I mean, people are out there beating the crap out of each other to save a few bucks on a DVD player. That little old lady who plays bingo with your grandma and sings in the church choir will brain you with her shoe if you stand between her and the last $200 laptop. I guess what I am trying to say is, Black Friday brings out the best in people. It also brings out some awesome deals on computer gadgets and electronics.

Even today, the vast majority of users have one or other version of Windows installed on their computers and this is the only operating system that they know, but Mac OS X and Linux are two other great operating systems that come with their loyal supporters as well.

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to create or mimic a mirror reflection to an object using Photoshop. The first part is going to learn the basics of creating a simple reflection of text or image object. Now in your work space, you got to have already an object that you need to create a reflection with.

Just like any other businessman, I too have this strong desire to empower users to sign up for and buy my services any time they want, using any device that can connect to the Internet. However things such as budgeting, potential for revenue, and the type of business you have are the kind of annoying “practical” realities that always come in the way.