Category Archives: Excel blog

Grading Your Website

It’s the end of the school year — the perfect time to grade your website. Today I tried the free analysis tool, Website Grader, to see how well Contextures would do. It’s easy to do — just fill in the … Continue reading

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A Fresh New WordPress 3.0 Look

Emboldened by yesterday’s success in installing the WordPress 3.0 upgrade, I decided to install their new default theme — Twenty Ten. It’s optimized for all the new WordPress 3.0 features, so it will give me a chance to try some … Continue reading

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Testing the WordPress 3.0 Upgrade

An advantage to having multiple blogs is that you can test things on a smaller blog, before installing them on your main blog. For example, WordPress 3.0 was released today, so I decided to test it on this blog first. … Continue reading

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Excel Readers Around the World

On the Google Analytics dashboard there’s a world map, that shows where my Excel blog readers are located. Not surprisingly, most are in the USA, and the rest are concentrated in a swath of English-speaking countries, from Canada to New … Continue reading

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My Blog is Gender Confused

On Twitter today, someone mentioned www.genderanalyzer.com, and reported that it guessed her blog was likely written by a man (59%). So, I decided to test my website and blogs, to see how they’d be assessed. Here’s the description of how … Continue reading

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Please Don’t Send Your Giant Files

Just like you, I get a fair amount of spam and other junk in my email inbox every day. There are regular requests for Excel help too, that I’ve written about before. Some of those Excel help requests come with … Continue reading

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Analyze Your Website Trends

Occasionally I check the Google Trends page, to see what’s the hot news of the day (or hour). If you’re stuck for a blog idea, or dinner conversation topic, you might get some inspiration there. It’s not too surprising, but … Continue reading

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Size Matters

For my desktop computer, I have two monitors – a 22” widescreen (that seems to be dying), and a 20” square. It’s easy to forget that other people don’t have as much screen real estate, and they’re reading my site … Continue reading

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Creative Spam Comments

Akismet blocks most of the spam comments on my blogs, which is great. I check the list of blocked comments, and have only found a handful that were incorrectly marked as spam. Most of the flagged comments are obvious spam, … Continue reading

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Singing the Microphone Blues

Yes, I have a new microphone but don’t worry, I’m not using it for singing. The injuction that the neighbours filed is probably still in effect. I’ve been making Excel tutorial videos for a while, and posting them on my … Continue reading

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