I’ve neglected this site of late, but this will be changing soon.

As well as new site management tools, I will soon be launching a new web business management site. In fact it’s a business methodology that applies to bricks-n-mortar businesses, and almost any enterprise.

Just to keep you interested, and to prove there is life around here somewhere, I’ve made a public demo of a filtering technique that I use in Google Spreadsheets.

I find that filtering is imperative for keyword grouping, and though some authorities decry spreadsheets, I will be explaining soon just how valuable they can be (not to mention free). Now filtering is great in Excel, or even better, in Open Office, but I need to keep my office on the web, so I like to use Google Docs.

Unfortunately, even though they have now added a rudimentary filtering solution in the new List View, there is no custom filtering.

The Google Spreadsheet Custom Filter Demo solves that problem. It should be self explanatory, but if not, please ask your questions in the comments box below.

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Multi User
Thanks to (nz)dave for this image
How different is Multi User Web Hosting compared to a standard hosted WordPress installation?
There are more similarities than differences, but you must prepare properly and keep your wits about you.

My standard WordPress installation wizard starts after you have a domain up and running. WordPress Multi User (WPMU) installation requires some changes to how your domain is configured. Specifically, you need to change DNS records if you want user blogs to be userblog.domain.com rather than www.domain.com/userblog.

I need to do a separate Multi User Wizard, but for now, I will list all the steps I took to get WPMU running. I’m pretty sure that the plugins and other configuration steps will differ, so I will generate the first phase of my Multi User Wizard over the next few days.

For now, the installation steps, with a couple of warnings, are:
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