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If you were like me, you used the default login “admin” to write many of your blog entries. If you use a blog reader, like me, you can see the name of the user in the feed. And if you were also like me, you often wondered: how could I change this from “admin” to my name? And perhaps you even tried and failed, like me. Here’s how to do this:

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If you own an online store or shopping cart and you transmit personal information from your customers, you need to encrypt that information using an SSL certificate. But there are so many choices that vary wildly in cost, how does an online store owner know which one to choose?

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Feedburner is a free service that can help you promote your blog. Blogging is a world unto itself, and Feedburner is a great tool to use to help get more traffic to your blog. Here’s a link to the Feedburner Blog page, that will give you an idea of some of the benefits. Here’s a list of some of the changes I’ve made to my own blog, based on joining Feedburner.

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Follow these steps to set up PayPal Website Payments Standard to work with ECommerceTemplates (ECT) Online Store:

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So you’ve just gotten a new WordPress blog, perhaps Aldebaran Web Design did it for you (if so, thanks for the business!). Here is a list of things I highly recommend you configure and look into to maximize the benefit your blog will have for your small business or personal project.

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Website clients often ask me, “how long will search engine optimization take” or “how long will it take me to have good Google rankings” ? There are many different opinions out there, and I’ll show you my answer, with real statistics from my own website.

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I prefer to use eCommerceTemplates (ECT) to develop online stores for my ecommerce clients. One of the biggest reasons is the flexibility that ECT offers, in terms of pre-build templates as well as generic versions that you can easily integrated into existing websites.

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So you’ve just gotten a new website finished - maybe Aldebaran Web Design even developed it for you. If so, you’re in luck because it was designed to W3C industry standards and adheres to Google’s Quality Guidelines and is ready for the world!

So what should a new website owner do next?

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I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “if you build it, they will come”. It’s one matter, to get prospective customers to visit your website, it’s another matter to “convert” them to real paying customers. Tracking what your visitors do once they get to your website might sound impossible, but it’s not!

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If you’re in the market for a website, selecting the right website designer for your particular project is crucial. Here are some things to keep in mind as you are shopping around and interviewing potential website designers:

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