How to use Wordpress as a CMS

Wordpress Home PageWordpress can be used as a basic or advanced Content Management System (CMS) depending on how you set it up. In one particular case I setup Ron Christman Stone Masonry using Wordpress. Read on to see what plugins I installed and to view a brief guide on how to edit a Wordpress powered website.
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Get Rid of Pesky Scrollbars in 1 cool CSS Move

Do you have flash content, an advertisement, photo, or other content that is supposed to fit in a div or iframe of a particular height and width, but it just goes over enough that Firefox or another browser decides it wants to show scrollbars? The fix is quite easy.
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How to create a popular blog post?

I’ve been watching the statistics on this website for a while. In general most of my blog posts get mild traffic, but there are a couple movers and shakers. The common element among them is that they all solve problems, immediate problems.
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Backup Your Application Databases

One of things I constantly stress is backup.  When writing web applications we are often focused on the results we want from the application that we can easily forget the underlying infrastructure including the database.  Your beautiful Ruby-on-Rails app is only as good as long as the underlying database structure is alive.  Keep it alive with good database backup.
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3 Web Applications for Clubs

On Wednesday I will be doing a talk on web applications for a local Lions club. There are many small civic and professional clubs that struggle with organization and growth. Here are some examples of web applications I am aware of that some organizations use to make life easier.
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How We Keep and Nurture Loyal Customers

What do you get when you have a representative of Microsoft, Network Solutions, and Google sitting on the same stage? A fight, no, but some of the most successful companies at attracting customers and keeping them loyal to a product or service. So what did they have to say at the Small Business Technology Summit?
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My Wordpress Ecommerce Buy Now Button Doesn’t Work!

What do you do if the wordpress e-commerce (wp-ecommerce) buy now shortcode doesn’t work? In WP-ecommerce you can add a shortcode to allow customers to buy your product from any post or page by entering a shortcode like this:

[buy_now_button=3]

What if nothing displays?
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