Sunday, October 5, 2008

A List Of Work At Home Jobs


This is a list of companies that hire for work at home jobs. Not all companies may be hiring at this time. Although these jobs have been well researched, it is still your responsibility to research them for yourself.

1-800-Flowers
Affina
Alpine Access
Arise
Cloud 10
Convergys
Delta Airlines
eSylvan
Finger Lakes
Hilton Hotels
JellyBean Services
Kelly Services
LiveOps
New
OnPoint@Home
Public Opinion Research
Siris
Sutherland@home
Teletech
Uhaul
VIPdesk
Working Solutions

Connecting With Work At Home Moms In Your Area


I was lying in bed this morning after being awoken by my silly cat who thinks she has to tell me on a Sunday "Mom! Wake up! It's 6 am!". I was watching the very early news when I caught a commercial on TV for a new website. The part I caught was about mom's in your area connecting with each other and something about if you are a work at home mom, then you should visit momslikeme.com. Half asleep I reached for pin and paper and in the dark room jotted down their web address.

I just sat down to visit this website and found the front page to look similar to craigslist. But I saw my city toward the top of the list and clicked on Denver. This directed me to my city specific website where I could join other moms in my area not only for discussions on working from home, but they have other groups on weight loss, deals in local stores, crafters, and many others. You can also start your own group. So of course I had to join. After all working from home is a solitary job and sometimes it is nice just to connect with others who do the same thing as you.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

How To Hide The Blogger Navigation Bar


As you may or may not have noticed, I have been doing a little work on the appearance of my blog. It had always irked me that the navigation bar that sits on top of blogger pages always looked out of place. I wanted my blog to have the look and feel of a website so I went in search of how to remove the bar.

I found that it was very simple and thought that I would share it with anyone who may be interested. First go to your layout, then find the edit html tab. Make sure you back up your template before making any changes. In your template code you need to copy and paste the snippet between these lines before the body:

#Navbar1 {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
display: none;
visibility: hidden;
}

Below is an example of where to place it. The code is in red.


Now you can preview and if it looks good go ahead and save. This only hides the navigation bar and if you want to show it again, then just remove the code.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

I Changed My Favicon - How I Did It


The favicon is the little icon that is on the far left of your browsers address bar and also on the tab next to the websites name you are viewing and in bookmarks. Changing the favicon from the blogger logo to the cute little typist girl was easy. First I went to Free Favicon Generator and simply uploaded a photo from my computer. You can also use one of their premade animated favicons if you don't have a suitable picture to use.

Once you have uploaded the photo they will even host it for free. Use the code in the second box and highlight and copy it. Now go to your blogger layout page and go to edit html. Back up your template before doing any alterations. In your template you will need to scroll down until you find something like the html tag < head >. Paste the file underneath that tag then click preview. If every thing looks alright you can then save.

You can also do this on wordpress and other webpages. Here are some additional resources to help you out.
How to Add a Favicon in Wordpress Blog
Dummies' Guide to Google Blogger
Putting a Favicon on your website

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Feeling The Economic Bite? A Few Suggestions To Help With A Little Extra Cash.


With the continued down slide of the economy and much uncertainty of the security of jobs, this is a great time to try and stock up on what we call in the WAHM world, more eggs for our basket. For me, my main job would be working for West, but with the fact that it is contracted with a major corporation does not mean that there is any security there at all. I also have Public Opinion Research, which is not steady, but when ever they have something available. Mechanical Turk, not much there, but fun! I have Squidoo for a little bit in my Paypal account each month, my online store and of course my blogs.

Besides my main work, everything else does not add up to much extra cash. So I am sitting here trying to think of some other eggs to place in my work basket. Besides all of the major work at home jobs I have listed on this site, these are some of the little things that could help bring in a little bit more.

Etsy.com for crafts and vintage items.
Ebay.com for just about anything.
Associated Content for writing articles.
Craigslist for selling unwanted stuff quick.
Some more Squidoo articles, the more you write, the more you make.
Surveys, yes believe it or not, I have actually made some money doing this.
Freebies, From cat food to cereal, everything helps.

I would welcome any other ideas that you can think of and just leave them in the comments.

Monday, September 29, 2008

A Solution To The High Cost Of Running Your Own Website or Blog!


I have paid for the hosting service for my Gypsiedream Store for almost two years now. As it is coming to the end of my two year contract, I am thinking that the expense is out weighing the revenue coming in. Though I hate to give up something that I have put a lot of work into, that is something I am considering. Besides the cost, the store is ran using Oscommerce and I have to say that although it is free opensource software, it is very complicated to use.

I have been looking for an economical way to host my website and maybe for one of my blogs. I checked out 000webhost and found out that they will actually host your site for free! There is no catch. You get 350 MB of disk space and 100 GB bandwidth. They also have cPanel just like a paid hosting site. And there is no advertising on your pages.

I joined and have been playing around with it in my spare time. So far I have uploaded Wordpress with no problems using fantastico auto installer. I plan in the future to try and transfer one of my other blogs over there. I also uploaded Oscommerce so when my paid hosting for my store is up at the end of the year I can host it there.

I figure I can easily add my own domain name and I have found that the best place to get one so far is at www.GoDaddy.com
So I figure that by using this free hosting service, free software from Wordpress or Oscommerce, and spending around $10.00 on a domain name, that it is a great solution to my problem. I think it sounds like a pretty good deal.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Work At Home For Delta Airlines


Delta Airlines is looking for Specialty Sales and Service Representatives for a Work at Home position. You must possess a telephone line and high-speed Internet, a focused work environment free of background noise and distractions. This position is part time, approximately 25 hours a week, although training will be full time for five weeks. After completing training, you must be flexible and able to work at any time, including nights, weekends and holidays. You must live within 50 miles of the Atlanta Call Center. The rate of pay for this position is $11.00 an hour. For more information go to Delta Airlines.


Thanks to The Rat race Rebellion for this job lead.