Mrs. Mecomber’s Scrapbook

I have a few blogrolls, and some are extraneously long. One way to harness long blogrolls is to insert the code into a “scrolling box.” The scrolling box is merely some html code that tells the computer how to show the text.

The code for this is actually looks like this:

<center><div style=”border: 1px dotted blue; overflow: auto; height: 100px; width: 270px; color: red; background-color: white;”>ALL YOUR WONDERFUL BLOGROLL INFORMATION WILL GO RIGHT HERE</div></center>

You can change anything you want to customize the scroll box. Here, I tinkered with a little of the code:

Which is the code here:

<center><div style=”border: 5px solid black; overflow: auto; height: 150px; width: 350px; color: blue; background-color: gray;”>ALL YOUR WONDERFUL BLOGROLL INFORMATION WILL GO RIGHT HERE</div></center>

Let me break down the html code in a language you can understand. It’s very easy, and I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it very quickly. Let’s take the tags one by one.

The first tag you see is <center>. This is the opening tag that determines text align. Think of an opening tag as the beginning of a story. You need to have an ending, too. If you look at the last tag, you’ll see </center>. There it is. This is telling the computer to show everything placed between those two tags to be centered within the space it’s placed. If you don’t want your scroll box to be centered, just remove those opening and closing tags. The scroll box will move to your default text align position.

The next tag you see is <div style=”. This is another opening tag. Look for the closing tag that matches it. </div>. The brain of the scroll box goes between these two tags. If you are missing the opening or closing “div” tags, as we call them, then your scroll box will not work. It’s kind of like the “skin” that holds the “guts” inside. Well, that’s how I think of it, lol.

Also, see those quotation marks– the ones that start after div style=” and end with white;” ? You must keep all your information within the realm of those quotation marks, as you do with the div tags. This is the way your computer reads the code. If your scroll box isn’t working properly, always check your code to make sure the quotation marks, semi-colons, and div tags are complete. More often than not, when code doesn’t work, the cause is usually a missing tag feature.

OK, now let’s tackle the fun stuff inside.

In my scroll boxes, I have borders of varying width and color. You can easily change these, or eliminate the border.

border: 1px dotted blue;

can be changed to border: 3px solid black; or to border: 1px dashed yellow;

You can be creative, but remember to keep it basic. Your choices for the border width are measured by pixels (px). Your color choices are simple (no magenta or chartreuse here), and your choices of style are solid, dashed, or dotted. Or, you can enter “none” and have nothing there. For example, change this:

<center><div style=”border: 1px dotted blue; overflow: auto; height: 100px; width: 100px; color: red; background-color: white;”>ALL YOUR WONDERFUL BLOGROLL INFORMATION WILL GO RIGHT HERE</div></center>

to this:

<center><div style=”border: none; overflow: auto; height: 100px; width: 100px; color: red; background-color: white;”>ALL YOUR WONDERFUL BLOGROLL INFORMATION WILL GO RIGHT HERE</div></center>

to get this:

Next in the html code you’ll see height: 100px; width: 100px;. These determine, obviously, the box’s height and width. You can change this to be anything you’d like, within the bounds of the code you’re putting your box in (for example, of your sidebar is only 200px wide, your scroll box won’t work properly if you make it 300px wide).

Next you see: color: red; background-color: white;. The first color determines your text color. The “background-color” determines the interior box color. Again, basic colors work best here.

Finally, your TEXT! Where do you put your text? Easy to see, right?

>ALL YOUR WONDERFUL BLOGROLL INFORMATION WILL GO RIGHT HERE

You can make a list of links using code (manually), or some blogroll networks give you a javascript text to insert. Just put your text or javascript code between the > and the </div>. It should all work!

P.S. Unless your text is really large or long, a scroll for the scroll box may or may not appear. Depends partially on your blog coding and partially on other’s browsers. All the text that you insert should appear, though.

Wow, um, what can I say about Ideal Absolutes. It’s creativity in hyper-drive. The author comes at ya, blasting bullets of humor, geekery, and current events in staccato machine-gun rapid fire. It’s fun, if a bit risque, in content. This post made me literally laugh out loud— but it’s a little too mature for the kids, in my opinion (but older computer geeks can giggle privately). And I’ve never known anyone to dare mix Hegel and Southern Yard Art before. Eclectic, eccentric, and energetic– that’s the content of this blog.

The blog design is minimal with a twist here and there. I like it; it’s clean and perfunctory. I failed to see the meaning of the tattooed dude in the sidebar… besides that odd photo, the rest of the blog blends nicely with the content. Everything (archives, contact, about, etc) is very handy and easy to navigate. I like that. I must say that the content was so minimal that I kept expecting more. For example, there’s so much information in the sidebars, but one scroll down and there’s nothing else there. And I went to the archives, expecting to see page after page, but all I saw was one (long) column with titles, and then months of the year leading to more archives. I was keen on finding out about “Make Money” in the navigation menu, but was disappointed when all I saw was:

I am both a student and a teacher. Certain aspects of what I’ve been taught can not be openly shared - others can. My intention is to use this area to share what I’ve learned.

Aw! I was hoping for some real secrets! Guess I’ll have to wait…

I loved the tools page, for checking page rank and other indexing stats. That’s a good page to bookmark if you are a blog writer and concerned about your placement in the blog food chain.

There are only three posts on the blog home page. I don’t like to click endlessly to read articles, so my suggestion would be to add more posts. I suspect that other readers, like me on a typical day, would read the three posts and off they’d go somewhere else. Certainly, a small home page loads faster, but too few posts discourages further reading.

MacEwan’s (the author) best posts are when he is discussing current events in the web world. He handles the SEO lingo with ease, without the ten-syllable techno-word-speak that many other bloggers like to throw around. The posts are comfortably understandable, and quite humorous, too. It would be nice to see more links in the sidebar where a reader can peruse similar content. It’s a little disappointing to read three posts, see a few ad links and then it’s DOA after that. I’d like to see more content, more recommendations, where I can read further about the blog topics– because the topics are interesting. There is such a thing as too minimal.

So overall, good design, good posts, interesting content. But the reader leaves the site wondering, “Is that all?” My recommendation is add a bit more content to satisfy the hungry reader.

P.S. I see he’s still got PR. Congrats for that. Hey, macewan, how much did you pay them, huh, how much?

My husband is a musician. He listens to everything. Believe me, I’ve heard it all! Country, metal, grunge, gospel, funk, pop, disco, and indie. Indie is short for “independent” and is the musical branch of the “do it yourself” culture. Technology and education has really contributed to its rise. There is a ton of great talent out there. Rather than wait for the recording industry to “discover” them, musicians are just playing their own songs, making their own CDs, and distributing their stuff thanks to the Internet. One of my favorite bands, Third Day, started out independent (but were “discovered” and later went mainstream). When I was younger, we called them “garage bands.” Indie music usually has its own subculture built around it, too.

Allan’s World Music is a multi-authored blog highlighting different indie groups and music, and offers reviews of indie albums. Allan seems to be the master of ceremonies at the blog. He and the other authors are media-minded and include short audio or video clips of the groups they blog about. This is very helpful, especially to visitors who are out of the indie loop (like me). I listened to a few clips, and really liked the Red Sparrows.

The blog design is classy, but the background is dark. I’m not too fond of dark backgrounds, but for this blog it seemed OK. It’s an appealing theme- I like the Scotch-tape effect on the virtual notebook paper. I also love the big blue RSS feed badge. I’m a sucker for big shiny badges like that. The blog header is a little plain for the stylishness of the theme. It looks like Arial font, and the title description bleeds over the header image. I don’t think the header font should get any smaller, but maybe the header could be enlarged, if possible. It’s not terribly noticeable, but it is slightly awkward when the rest of the blog looks stylish. (I love the “Allan’s World” script font at the top of each sidebar; I’d like to see it more noticeable, or use that design idea for the rest of the fonts– like, the post title).

Going to the blog content: I think the posts’ title font is Arial, too, which is dull, and a tad large. Because some of the posts’ titles are several lines long, it might be better to make the post title font smaller.

The writing of the posts is good– not too long, not too short. The transitions in thought kept me reading, even though I can’t say I am terribly interested in the world of indie music. The content is very readable. The pictures and sound clips are incremental to its cohesion. Very good job. Posts are short and sweet and keep one’s interest.

The font in the sidebars is a bit too small for me, but it does go nicely with the overall design; it’s just a tiny bit difficult for me to read. The categories lists is extremely long and a little difficult to follow because the font is so small. But as a blogger who has long categories lists myself, I understand that sometimes organization and thoroughness must trump brevity. If I was looking through the categories for a specific group or topic, I’d appreciate such a thorough list.

I like that there are “about” pages for each author. I can’t say I like what’s in some of the about pages (I’d really rather not know about belly buttons and bongs, thanks anyway). I did like that they have an “Upcoming Album Reviews” schedule for the organized indies among their readers. Allan has a good, well-organized, and well-written blog. A few tweaks, and it’ll look perfect.

I recently reviewed a page from the Beandom website, The Space Turtle. This is part two of reviewing more pages within the site.

The Beandom is a fanciful and fun collection of websites done by Justin Lowmaster (aka, Chivalrybean). I love the entre page: there’s a classy clipper ship (or is it a schooner?), a banner, and a selection of links to take you on your journey. It’s very professional-looking and quite elegant.

I visited The Blogdom, a suburb of the Beandom (who knew?) and Beanspiration. I also checked out the other two links, Games (which took me to a beta testing website for what looks to be a promising computer game) and the Beandom Forum (also under construction). Since there is some activity going on at the first two, I’ll address those.

Beanspiration is new. It has a few posts. The template is the default “Kubrick” theme by Wordpress (yuk). Seeing how classy the rest of the Beandom is, I strongly suspect this blog to get some new clothes when things get rolling. Right now, it’s still in the formative stages.

The one post at Beanspiration is lovely. I am studying Philippians, too, with my kids. It is one of my favorite New Testament books. I liked reading what Chivalrybean had to say. I hope he continues to write more, as he did describe the blog as “Daily (mostly) inspriations and thoughts from my personal Bible studies.”

The Blogdom template (hmm… looks mighty familiar) is crispy clean and clear, like iceberg lettuce. As I discovered with The Space Turtle, the content is minimal but there is a lot of emphasis on the written word and content. This is a refreshing change from so many blogs I encounter that are cluttered with glittery baubles and flashing advertisements. I’m pretty stubborn about those “read more” links and the registering requirement to comment: I don’t like them.

The blog is relatively new to the blogosphere, begun in August. Already, there are pages and pages of content. The narrative is brief and clean, and reads like a daily journal of the author’s activities and thoughts. In reading some excerpts, I found that I like this author. He plays guitar, he gives money, he’s got a sweet marriage (expecting first baby!) and seems like a really nice guy. I liked his honest movie reviews (I’d never heard of The Last Mizmy, will check it out) and cracked up at this:

I find out on the 7th of January is our baby is going to be a boy or a girl.

I’d say, “yes.”

Heh. I’m being sarcastic a little! I’ve had four, so I’m crusty about childrearing by now. By the way– the new parents are going to have a … well, I won’t “spill the beans.” Go here to find out the good news. Pictures, too! Wow, I wish I could have put my ultrasounds on Picasa– too cool!!!! (Picasa wasn’t invented when I was expecting my kids).

The Blogdom was refreshingly open. The word that keeps coming to me is “clear.” He seems so simple yet so thoughtful; so colorful yet so temperate. I’ve come across Chivalrybean in various forums, but never knew “who” he was. After reading his The Blogdom, I like him even more. Keep up the blogwork, my new friend!

Mrs. Mecomber (uh, that’s me. I sometimes speak about myself in the third person) has the pleasant opportunity to review blogs for those who request a review. It’s a free review, I ask nothing in return except a visit to my humble blog to read the review.

I’m fresh from checking out an entertaining blog called The Space Turtle: odd news that never happened, stories that entertain. The stories certainly do entertain. The post titled “Russian Subs Seen at Los Angeles Coast” caught my attention. When I read that sandwich mogul Crazy Ivan has just opened up a submarine sandwich shop in California, I had a good laugh. The Space Turtle reminds me of Scrappleface with the good humor and entertaining stories– very “punny,” as my husband calls them.

The design of the blog is clean and very simple. I usually dislike dark backgrounds with light-colored font, but the color scheme complements the style of the blog’s content. There are few diversions in the sidebars, supposedly, I assume, to keep the reader’s attention focused on the content of the posts. It is effective, whether it is intentional or not. I thought the sidebars a little too sparse, but hey, too sparse is better than too overbearing.

I did a little searching to find out the who and why of the blog. I always like to know why a blogger names his blog as he does (especially something so unique as the “space turtle”) and the author was kind enough to divulge:

The idea for the space turtle came from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series where the entire Discworld rests upon four elephants that stand on the shell of a giant turtle. My turtle is no where near that big, of course.

…What is the Space Turtle? Mainly it is a vehicle for me to write creatively and be able to share my silly stories with the entire world. Unfortunately most of the entire world has not even seen my site yet, so feel free to help me inform the entire world in any way you can. This is somewhat a “news” site, where I make up silly news, but I also post stories, some single short stories, as well as some continuing stories.

Discworld, hmm. Isn’t this from some ancient myth, similar to Atlas holding the world on his shoulders? I am not familiar with Terry Pratchett so I wasn’t sure. Anyway, it’s a quirky title for a blog filled with quirky stories. I like it. I like reading how people can take a story and be very creative with it, and present it from a different (and funny, like the Russian subs) angle. I also love how some of the links for replacement windows and wood preservation fit into the stories so well. Now that’s creativity!

One thing I didn’t like was the requirement to register to leave a comment. I know, I know, in this world of blog spam and nasty anonymous sideswipes, comment control is becoming a necessity. I just hate to see it, and I think it discourages readers from commenting when they otherwise would like to. I also don’t personally like to click on “read more” to read more. I am impatient, and my Internet connection is sometimes slow; plus, I am a very lazy clicker and I don’t like to click any more than I have to.

These days it seems hard enough to find good writing and quality content anywhere, but especially on blogs. The Space Turtle is different. Combining good content within the brevity of a blog post, you can get your craving for a good, short story fulfilled.

I’m checking out something new I’ve just heard of– multi-user computing. Apparently, a little device enables you to split up your computer into partitions that can be shared across multiple monitors and peripherals. Basically– one computer can be used to have multiple users. This is not about those multiple monitors that’s becoming the new rage– this is one computer, many users. My curiosity is piqued! Check this place out for more information.

I really don’t keep up with the Search Engine Optimization end of the news or developments. I prefer to stick to simple, basic computing news for average computer users. But I did find a very interesting interview with Matt Cutts from Google. I guess the Internet is at the point where “When Google talk, even E.F. Hutton listens.” It’s a shame that, all so often, a good thing comes under so much control by one company.

I like Google, I think they have earned their success, and are a great benefit to the Internet world. But I am uncomfortable with seeing their tentacles into everything. It’s good reading to see what they are up to and how they “rule” the Internet. As one blogger put it, “it’s a Google world.”

If you are interesting in optimizing your website or blog, or discovering the likes and dislikes of the Googlebot, read the article. It’s here.

Wanna know what really irks me? The latest public radio ads I keep hearing on TV. They are set to corny country music, trying to be humorous about something that is not humorous at all. In the ad, a guy sings a song, telling why he is now working at a cheap diner trying to scrape by– because he didn’t protect his identity and it was stolen… and he was robbed out of his skin. So, he works three lousy jobs trying to build his life back again.

Hardy har har! So funny! The ad ends with the government telling you how you really should protect your identity more.

Then I read stories like this one:

Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer tape went missing. GE Money, which handles credit card operations for Penney and many other retailers, said Thursday night that the missing information includes Social Security numbers for about 150,000 people.

The information was on a backup computer tape that was discovered missing last October. It was being stored at a warehouse run by Iron Mountain Inc., a data storage company, and was never checked out but can’t be found either, said Richard C. Jones, a spokesman for GE Money, part of General Electric Capital Corp.

Jones said there was “no indication of theft or anything of that sort,” and no evidence of fraudulent activity on the accounts involved.

Iron Mountain spokesman Dan O’Neill said it would take specialized skills for someone to glean the personal data from the tape. He said the company regretted losing the tape, “but because of the volume of information we handle and the fact people are involved, we have occasionally made mistakes.”

Uhhh.. occasionally? When else have we been notified of these occasional mistakes? They are popping up left and right!

It irks me to no end to be hounded over “protecting” my “identity” when God-knows-who else has it and “loses” it; and without penalty, too. These companies should be driven out of business. Funny thing is, the companies’ names are one of the best kept secrets in the country!

Well, I’m ignoring my own technical problems with my stupid printer to let you know about some important developments in the computer world. One has to do with an important security breach on home routers. It’s important because more and more people are using routers to connect to the Internet via broadband or cable.

In this particular attack, an email is infected with malware. if you open the email, malicious code takes over.

According to Symantec researcher Zulfikar Ramzan, the attack changes a router’s settings controlling the domain name system server that translates domain names like theregister.co.uk into numerical IP address.

Malicious javascript code embedded into one email message he uncovered caused the URL for a popular Mexico-based bank to map to a fraudulent website controlled by the attackers. Anyone who tried to do business on the rogue site would have their banking credentials lifted.

If you have changed the default administration name and password (most routers use “admin”), you should be OK. But a lot of people never bother to change these things. Secure your network and Internet connection, people! Even in my small town, my wireless laptop has picked up multiple neighbors with no security. I could connect to their networks without a hitch! If the users had no firewall, I could even view their computer’s files or change them. This is awful! If you don’t know how to change your router’s settings, look in your manual, or do a search for your manufacturer online. Or find a geeky teen-aged relative to help you. Always secure your connection!

I haven’t had any time to devote to this blog lately. I’m actually avoiding technical news right now… because I have HAD IT with technical things these days. I’ve been in the midst of a major printing problem (my stupid laser printer won’t print via my home network, and I’ve tried everything!), and have had a few new problems compound on top of it. And there are some other tecchie issues I’m working on that are absorbing all my attention. Soon I’ll be writing about more cool gadgets and blogging more information.

But right now… well, what I always say, “Technology is a great convenience, until something goes wrong!”

I finally broke down and bought a cell phone last year. It’s a TracFone, the cheapest I could go. I’m not away from home too often, but when I am, it’s very handy. However, I have to renew my airtime and minutes before February 1st. Does anyone have any tips or know of any discounts? The airtime card is going to cost me $100! That’s a lot!

Did you know that every cell phone has a SIM card in it? It has all sorts of information in it, including your name, your phone account, etc. It is also used as a tracking device. The government can tell where you are at all times by tracing the wireless signals coming to and from your phone, even when your phone is off. How do you feel about that? If you’re like me and you don’t like it, wrap your phone up in aluminum foil. Your phone cannot be detected, even if it is on. Be aware that you won’t receive any calls until you unwrap the phone from the foil.

Just a handy helpful tip from the kinder, gentler computer geek.

OK, didn’t we all just know this was coming, whether you’ve read Orwell’s 1984 or not?

Microsoft Seeks Patent for Office Spy Software

Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.

The Times has seen a patent application filed by the company for a computer system that links workers to their computers via wireless sensors that measure their metabolism. The system would allow managers to monitor employees’ performance by measuring their heart rate, body temperature, movement, facial expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that employees could be dismissed on the basis of a computer’s assessment of their physiological state.

Just in time for the new slave labor class of people (that’s you and me and anyone else who is at the bottom of the employee food chain). This control-freak patent could be issued to Microsfot in a year.

Microsoft last night refused to comment on the application, but said: “We have over 7,000 patents worldwide and we are proud of the quality of these patents and the innovations they represent. As a general practice, we do not typically comment on pending patent applications because claims made in the application may be modified through the approval process.”

Yeah, modified like in a VeriChip or something.

Am I the only person who finds this not only creepy, but an absolute outrage? What is happening to our liberty in this country?

I flipped out when I read the latest in security news:

New mass hack strikes sites, confounds researchers; May be linked to November 2007 break-in at U.K. hosting firm

A massive hack of legitimate Web sites has been spreading malware to visitors’ PCs, using a new tactic that has made detection “extraordinarily difficult,” security experts said today.

According to the researcher who broke the news, the hack, which involves several hundred sites, may be related to a November 2007 break-in at Fasthosts Internet Ltd., a U.K.-based hosting service that in early December acknowledged that some clients’ log-in credentials had been pinched.

…Visitors to the compromised domains have been assaulted with multiple exploits, notably one for a vulnerability in Apple Inc.’s QuickTime media player that was patched only last month. Another exploit being served, said Landesman, is the “tried and true” attack against Windows 18-month-old MDAC flaw.

If successful, the client-side attack infects the PC with a variation of the Rbot Trojan, a backdoor also known as Zotob that has been active since the middle of 2005. There, too, however, users are at special risk. “Just three out of 33 antivirus vendors detected that [variation],” Landesman claimed.

This is insane. For one, companies have GOT to get control of their data. Two, why are the crooks always a step ahead of these “security” wizards?!

The story offers no help, no suggestions, no detection help, nothing.

I was sifting through my email this evening and came across a Tiger Direct email ad. I usually check them out even though I rarely buy anything, because I love to see what the latest techno-gadget is. I was floored when I saw a deep discount for a Lenovo notebook. It has face recognition software. Yowsa. I’ve seen the fingerprint identification models, but not the face thing.

The notebook has:

Integrated 1.3 Megapixel Camera
An integrated 1.3 megapixel camera combined with Lenovo’s VeriFace face recognition software can help control access to your notebook by recognizing when you are sitting at the keyboard. It can even lock the system if it determines you’ve stepped away!

I don’t know if I’d like that too much. What if you were in a fight and your face was puffy? You’d be locked out of your notebook!

Besides, I’ve read Orwell’s 1984. This is getting creepy, folks!

Here’s a quick article on adding custom text to a categories page for your Wordpress blog. First, a little background.

Wordpress sorts your blog posts into categories. See here for the definition from Wordpress. Wordpress also has something they call a “template hierarchy.” A good explanation comes from Tina Gasperson’s blog:

Because most WordPress themes have a single template for archives, aptly named archive.php, it’s not immediately apparent how to place a text ad on a specific category results page. But never fear: by default, WordPress searches using what it calls a “template hierarchy.” By taking advantage of the template hierarchy, it’s easy to make a special page that keeps your text ad where it belongs.

The template hierarchy works like this: if your visitor clicks on category #3, WordPress first looks for the most specific template: category-3.php. If it doesn’t find that, then it goes after the more generic category.php, and then archive.php, and if it doesn’t find that, it finally drops back to index.php. Armed with this knowledge, you can create a category-specific template using archive.php as a base.

Yes, armed with the knowledge of how Wordpress works, you can guide the system using this template hierarchy. You can make Wordpress show special text on certain category pages. This is not a difficult task, but I will assume that you know about coding and are familiar with the Wordpress format. This is how you do it.

So let’s say you want to post some text (for example, a text ad) under a certain category– but not all your categories. Let’s say you want to post a text ad under your category named “blogging.” Wordpress calls this category “blogging,” but Wordpress also assigns an Identity Number to this category, too. You need to find this ID number before you can do anything.

Log in to your Wordpress blog and go to “Manage” and choose “Categories.” You’ll see your list of categories. Since we are going to alter the “blogging” category, look for it in the list. Look for the ID Number.

In the image above, the ID Number we want is 73.

Now, go to “Presentation” (somewhere to the right of “Manage”) and choose “Theme Editor” tab. You will probably have a different theme than I, and your php files will look different, too. But the basic bones should be there. In the “Theme Editor” screen, look to the right-hand side and you’ll see a long list of links. Listed here are php files, like Style sheet, Header, Main Index Template, etc. Don’t worry if you don’t have the same ones that I do, or vice versa– it really depends on the theme you are using. However, some files should be the same. Just like people all have heads and eyes but different hair and eye color… your theme should have certain “body parts” but the styles may vary. Look for the php file called “archives.php.” Click it. When the page reloads, make sure it says “Editing “archive.php” at the top.

Copy all of the code in this file. Now, open up a new Notepad file. Paste the copied archive.php code into this new Notepad page. Now you are going to save the Notepad page, but you need to rename it using the ID Number of that category you wanted to change. Remember how our “blogging” category has an ID if 73? This is what I named my Notepad page:

Be sure to name your file exactly that (just use your own ID Number for your own category). Make sure there is a hypen and make sure you have the .php. Save the Notepad file but don’t close it yet!

You need to put in your text ad. Grab your text and paste it in like this (mine is in red):

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id=”primary-content”>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/theloop.php’); ?>

<p>
The kinder, gentler computer geek, <a href=”www.mrsmecombersscrapbook.com”>Mrs. Mecomber</a>, has recently issued her top ten free software programs for 2008.
</p>

</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Do you see how you are inserting your code between these two lines of code?

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/theloop.php’); ?>

</div>

Of course, your text ad will be different, unless you want to give me some free advertising.

Now, save your Notepad file again. Upload this file into your FTP program. Go back to your Administrative page in Wordpress (you may need to refresh or click a link elsewhere and come back to the page). You should now see your “category-IDNUMBER.php” file in the right-hand side.

You’ll notice that the Archive files remains unchanged, too.

Your text should now show up in only that category page. Ain’t Wordpress fun?