Have you ever stumbled across a site and really liked its color scheme? If so did you wish you had an easy way to discover the hexadecimal color codes of the colors the designer used?

Or maybe you just set up your blog with a custom theme and you want a quick and easy way to incorporate the colors of your new theme into your Adsense ads.

Regardless of the reason, any self respecting blogger or web designer needs a color picker in his or her proverbial toolbox. Because lets face it, if you want to figure out the hex code for a color on a web page, you really only have 2 options. You could dig into the HTML or CSS to find out the color codes (not fun), or you could use a color picker!

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I recently joined the EntreCard community as a way to help drive traffic to my site. I assumed that I’d have ample designs to choose from for my logo during the signup process. Boy was I wrong! The best logo I could come up with through EntreCard was this:

Simply hideous. Oddly, EntreCard fully admits that their pre-designed logos are lame. So what can you do to spruce up your EntreCard logo or ad?

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TYsTIPS.com currently uses the WPTP-Chocolate theme (by wpthemesplugin), sponsored and supported by www.web-hosting-top.com. A nice feature of this theme is a very clean spot in the top left corner of the header to place a prominent 468×60 adsense banner add. Placing the add is pretty simple, once you know where to paste the adsense script.

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Note: I have decided to repost the GeekTechBlog article I wrote about starting up this WordPress.org (not WordPress.com) blog (TYsTIPS.com). I purchased my TYsTIPS.com domain name from GoDaddy, and I wanted to be able to host it with GoDaddy as well. This post details the steps required to install WordPress 2.5.1 on a GoDaddy hosted domain. You can view the original post here, or simply read the reposted version below. Enjoy!

I recently decided to give WordPress a try. I’ve used Blogger for several blogs and thought it was time to broaden my horizons a bit. I register all my domains through GoDaddy.com and out of convenience, I wanted to host my new WordPress blog (TysTips.com) on GoDaddy as well.

I Googled to figure out how to set up my GoDaddy domain and I was surprised to find that there were numerous posts on the subject, but all had poor or outdated instructions. It turns out that there are a few ways to install WordPress on a GoDaddy domain.

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