Save 50% off the Regular Price! I've found it! A real roadmap to guide your overseas move. Kathleen Peddicord has used her almost 30 years of writing about the expat life, and 16 years of living as an expat in four different countries to create just such a guide. She promises that, within 52 days of receiving this step-by-step system, you'll be ready to retire overseas. See my full review here. What have you got to lose? More information here. . . …
Thanksgiving Traditions — Are they the Same Overseas?
There's nothing like the holidays to bring out the best -- or the worst -- in you when you're living overseas. If you're lonely, disoriented, or homesick, holidays can make you feel much worse. If you're enjoying your life, holidays can be a lot of fun. But guess what? That can happen when you're in your home country, too. It's really about your overall quality of life and what you make of it. For a few years before we moved to Panama, Thanksgivings seemed very odd to me. No longer were we …
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Surprise Discovery! Use a VPN and Save Hundreds or Thousands of Dollars. . .
I've written quite a bit about using VPNs when you're living or traveling abroad. (You can find previous articles here, here and here.) Now here's another reason -- with thanks to VyprVPN for the infographic. You can save a bundle on flights and car rentals when booking travel if you use your VPN. Not just pennies, folks, but hundreds of dollars. I'm definitely trying this strategy next time I'm booking a trip! Click the image to see the larger version, or try VyprVPN free. Have …
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CoSchedule, the Fabulous WordPress Editorial Calendar Plugin (it does Social Media, too!)
Running a website means you're in the publishing business. And if you're in publishing, you should have an Editorial Calendar. As Copyblogger says, "An editorial calendar is just a fancy name for a pubishing schedule." The editorial calendar is where you plan your WordPress content in the upcoming days, weeks or even months. If you have a team, you assign tasks to individuals based on your editorial calendar. Want to learn more about editorial calendars? Here are a few good overviews of …
Swing into Smoother Sitebuilding with Benny: What’s new with WordPress 4.0
The new WordPress upgrade 4.0 has arrived, and believe it or not, it's stirred up some controversy. It's a very geeky controversy, I'll admit. Some within the WordPress community think the "4.0" designation is wrong. Usually, when a software update is minor, the developer just adds a new digit at the end of the number -- 3.8 if it's the eighth minor update to version 3, for example. If it's a big update, it gets a whole new number. Hence, 4.0. Except some say it doesn't deserve to be 4.0, …
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Common WordPress Widgets and Where to Find Them
In discussions with readers and clients recently, I've realized there's a lot of confusion about WordPress widgets -- what they are, and even more importantly, where they are. I admit, widgets can be confusing little beasts at times. Here's some basic information about what a widget is. Read this first, then come on back and we'll talk about the most common widgets, and where you'll find them. Where are the Widgets? The two places you'll find widgets most often on a web page are in the …
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