I'm back (did you miss me?)

After 30 days disconnected from WA, and from work, I feel happy to be back with all my friends!I've not been idle. I'm preparing some interesting tutorials to publish in March and I'm also developing some techniques to improve my productivity in the creation of content that I want to share with my followers.My ranking went from 5 to 24, which means the system works giving opportunities to any member who wants to become an Ambassador. Great.I have new ambitious goals for the next two weeks: I'm

Text To Speech - Audio for your Websites!

Yesterday I promised to upload a tutorial on how to create an audio file from text. Amazon was my first choice and I had a decent draft almost ready but people chose Google Cloud Service.Honestly, I didn't have the time to prepare this version the way I like but a promise is a promise and I hope posting a preview should temporarily satisfy curious minds.What I will show is how to create a mp3 file that can be uploaded to your WP media library reading any short text.Google Cloud TTSThis is a pag

Text To Speech - My New Toy!

Hi, fellow WAers! This will be short and sweet. It's about a technology that you might have heard of: TTS (text to speech). Our websites will become richer, more engaging, and cool!I've been using TTS for many years, to create audio for my videos with zero cost.A couple of years ago I started adding Play buttons for audio in my mobile websites and the result is remarkable:Improved session durationLess bounce rateBetter user experienceI'm not showing a detailed statistic but if many of you show

A Dumb Idea Worth One Million

Please raise a hand if you knew about The Million Dollar Homepage. I'm inviting you to revisit Internet history for a reason. Why? Hint: there is no such thing as a dumb idea.From Wikipedia: The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consisted of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $1 per pixel in 10 ×

I'm Unfollowing You. or Where's WAlly?

I know many of us believe that to reciprocate following is a polite gesture, right? Well, I've been thinking it over...I remember a time when the gurus recommended following as many people as possible, then unfollow those who don't follow you back, and why not? unfollow the ones who follow you (some of them will never notice).The whole idea was to be able to get as much free traffic as possible from any post you make. But without becoming a real influencer first you become a smart spammer...Laz

My First Website SOLD

Some WA members have congratulated me for my new profile picture, you might never guess where it was taken, but it's pretty obvious I LOVE CATS!!!That is why this website is so dear to me. One of my starters, which I upgraded to premium, owns a cattery in Alicante. I insisted so many times that she should join WA that she finally accepted. However, when she realized how complex it was to create a WP site, she decided to give me the job and told me that she wanted me to take care of her site's m

A Viral Video is Born

Disclaimer: this blog is rated PG-13 so read under your own responsibility ;-) - Ranking in YouTube, according to some experts, might be a good idea. - I'm not one of them, so do your own research and ask them how to benefit from YT to improve the ranking of your website. - However, I'm a curious individual and I've been researching on my own, always trying to learn the best way to do things without re-inventing the wheel.Today I want to share something that I always wanted others to show me: h

30 Day recap: Back to Square One?

To be honest, I wanted to post an uplifting bells-and-whistles blog, but my plan changed after a phone call. I was eager to list my achievements, not to show off but to share a feeling that would encourage my followers to keep on rowing their boats. I also wanted to keep a log of my progress, another breadcrumb to show me how to get back on track if/when I got the blues...So this recap will be less objective and organized than what I had originally planned. These are some facts:I worked about 3

Are you my sponsor? You got a commission!

I'm about to renew my premium membership and I don't mind paying $50 but I understand that somebody will get paid a $23.50 commission.I would like to know who this person is because I'm not sure how I came here in 2015. As I've mentioned in a blog, I re-discovered WA 4 weeks ago and became a premium member the same day because I knew this was it. No more chasing shiny objects.My ranking went from 600000 to Ambassador status (today ranking 15) because I devoted my full-time commitment to become

WA's Got Talent - PILOT

Another idea (I'm on a morning's rant fasting). WA's GOT TALENT!, but before you say anything give me a chance to explain why I post this and how this will benefit the community, OK?I find incredibly hard to deal with information overload and ideas overload. There are so many gems out there, but the day still has 24 hours and we have to choose what we read and the actions we take if we don't want to get paralyzed.A short story to introduce this new baby projectOne of my buddies sent me a PM, te