I have a silly fun site for the day:
http://www.myheritage.com/face-recognition
You can upload a picture and the site will tell you what celebrities resemble you. I’m not telling who I looked like – except that pretty much it was anyone who wears glasses.
Have a fantastic holiday!!
We-Care
Thanks to Bill in New York for sending me information on a fun tool that might help get your holiday shopping done and give a little bit back to your favorite charities.
We-Care (http://www.we-care.com/) is a collection of 700+ merchants. When you buy products from them through this site a portion of your purchase will go to the charity of your choice. You can do a search for your charity; if they aren’t listed, you can list them. There is even a page of coupons to get good deals.
If you are a nonprofit you can go and list yourself easily too – for no charge. You will get listed on the site and you’ll get a full, co-branded mall of your own with your colors, message, logo, and a unique URL. You even get some help with marketing tools.
Thanks to Jan in Wisconsin for sending me info on GoodSearch.com. It is a search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities it designates
So there it is; it’s pretty simple. With any luck it will save you a little time and help your favorite nonprofits.
I wrote a blog recently on how to build a cheap web site – really based on using a blog as your web site.
I’ve looked further into this option and into using the domain name for your blog. You can do this one of two ways:
First, you could register the domain name with a registrar, such as Go Daddy. You can set up your email with Go Daddy. Also they will forward you domain to your blog. So when someone types in www.yourdomain.com it will go to your blog, which might have an address like yourname.wordpress.com. But once you visit that site, the address in the address bar will look like the WordPress address, not the domain name.
One small way to change this would be to have Go Daddy mask the domain. Then when someone visits the blog, they will see your domain name – but as they browse your site that address won’t change. So that the address on the About page (for example) would still look like: www.yourdomain.com not www.yourdomain.com/about.html. It makes it hard for a visitor to point to a specific blog post.
The second option is to map the domain name through WordPress. You can do this by going to your blog dashboard and selecting Upgrade in the menu. Then you’ll see an option for domains. You need to buy credits (I think it’s $15) but once you do you can point your domain name to the blog and the site will reflect your domain name on each page.
Now you can also set up email through Google Apps. Here’s an article that outlines that process: http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/gmail-mx/
