About a year ago, WordPress added a feature that made it ridiculously easy to embed content from various sites (like YouTube, Slideshare, Vimeo) into WordPress sites. How to embed media in WordPress in a second If you want to embed, for example, a YouTube video in a post, all you do is paste the URL of the video into the editor, unlink it and save/publish. See our ultimate guide to embedding HTML and iframes in WordPress on WPGarage for more info on how this works. The problem is that it doesn't seem to work 100% of the time. Luckily, there's ...

RSS feeds allow people to subscribe to get updated about your site or blog's newest posts, usually via tools called feed readers (Google Reader is a well-known, free option). This is a nice feature, but like all things web we want to be able to measure this metric too and know how many people are subscribing, and how they are using the feed. Feedburner is the only tool available that allows you to measure the number of people subscribed to your feed. It also allows you to offer people an email subscription option, which automatically sends them new posts by email if they subscribe to that option. In order to ...

illuminea college is offering an amazing course through which you'll learn all the basics you need to know in order to get a website up and running using WordPress. Why Wordpress? WordPress is an open source Content Management System (CMS). Basically this means that regular people like you and me can, relatively very easily, build and tweak websites that are cool, clear, professional and unique. What is the course exactly? When: Starts Feb. 15, 2011. 9:30am-1:30pm Tuesdays for 8 weeks. Where: Our office in Jerusalem What: Here is the course outline: HTML CSS How do websites and internet work? (And how to get mine to work) Familiarizing yourself with WordPress part 1 Familiarizing yourself with ...

Read part one here in order to learn how to buy a domain name. Step II: Time to start mapping You own your dream domain! Don't leave the domain provider site yet. Here is how to change the Nameservers in name.com. Click on the cute “Account” man button at the top of the page: You’ll arrive at a page like this: Click on the info button of the domain you want to map to. You’ll get a pop up page and on the right it says Nameservers with a list under it. To the right of Nameservers it says “edit.” Click on that button. ...

Who is this tutorial for? This tutorial is helpful to someone who has decided to have a wordpress.com blog but wants to look cooler or more professional by using a custom domain like deenascreations.com instead of the standard wordpress.com domain like deenascreations.wordpress.com. Notice that both of those links go to the same place? Once you map your domain, you'll be able to tell everyone your more impressive URL without the .wordpress.com part. This is relatively easy to accomplish (just follow the instructions in this post) and then you will look oh so impressive and no one needs to know that it cost oh so little. So, how much will it cost? According to the current prices, around $10US per year will go ...

Ya feel the weather getting hotter outside? WRONG! You are feeling the hot July events sizzling off the illuminea calendar that you DO NOT WANT TO MISS! Here is just a glimpse of what is going on. To get caught up on all the latest event check out the illuminea events calendar! July 6, 2010. Tel Aviv, Israel.The #140conf. The #140conf Tel Aviv conference will be a place for people to share their passion about the real-time web and it's ongoing effects on both business and on people. ...

10 Tips for Writing a Great CV Guest post by Elinor Bat-Genstein, Founder & Managing Partner of CommuniTech. Elinor has worked as Marketing Director, Product Marketing Manager, and Sales Operation Manager in the Israel high-tech industry since 1996. Elinor established CommuniTech in order to develop best practices and domain expertise, with a special emphasis on Product Marketing for global companies, so as to utilize her personal strength in this domain. Today CommuniTech is concentrating on placement of, and training for, Marketing and Sales position worldwide. Growing up in Paris gives Elinor a clear advantage while helping Israeli organizations in placement projects for their European subsidiaries. Before founding CommuniTech, Elinor was the marketing director at the Israeli Mobile Association (IMA), Global Director of Marketing at Personeta, and ...

So you’re wondering how you can use PayPal in Israel? Does PayPal accept Shekels? Can you withdraw your PayPal funds to your Israeli bank account? Etc. As you often do when in doubt, you head over to Google and type in “PayPal Israel” to see what the web has to say about your questions. If you are located in Israel, here are approximately what the results will look like: See results number 3 and 4? That’s us. Where’s PayPal or PayPal Israel? Nowhere to be seen. Ranking high for this term was an accident for us. We ...

People are always asking for background information on why and how they should blog. While there is great information out there on the web, I thought I'd put together a resource here that I can refer people to when they ask. This post will be updated regularly so keep checking back. Why blog Why Start a Blog and 25 Tips to Make it Work, Conversation Agent, Nov. 6, 2008 iMedia Connection: Five Reasons to Blog Social Media still on rise: Comparative global study Why ...

Digital Eve is a global organization for business women, with about 20 branches around the world. Most of the branches are in the US and Canada, and only three are international: Japan, the UK, and...you guessed it: Israel. The Israeli chapter of Digital Eve consists of a very active and professional email list with about 1500 subscribers. People use the list to get advice, find new employees and suppliers, and promote themselves and their own businesses. The list is moderated to maintain a high level of professional dialogue, and as a result it has become a favorite among the general Israeli business community, with many men joining as well and ...