How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the bestselling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie in 1937, it has sold 15 million copies. “[Dale Carnegie] changed my life” Warren Buffett, one of the world’s wealthiest people and most generous philanthropist of all time. The book isn’t about how to be [...]
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Article filed under: Business, Internet, Marketing, Self improvement on August 10th, 2010 7 Comments
10 years ago I had a big problem. I was a print designer but I loved the internet and desperately wanted to work with it. I wanted a software package that would let me mess around with drag-and-drop functionality and when I was ready I could click “GO” and miraculously produce perfect code. I was [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Internet on June 21st, 2010 21 Comments
So you’re using WordPress and you are getting a nice amount of traffic, say a few hundred visitors a day. Maybe you love running many of the great plugins that add extra functionality for your visitors. There’s just one problem: your server is struggling with the load and your site isn’t just slow, it’s ssslllooowww! [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, WordPress on June 14th, 2010 11 Comments
As the internet becomes the preferred method of communication for businesses worldwide, the tool of creating and publishing the content is of increasing importance. WordPress is used by millions to deliver news, messages and articles to the world. It has become not only the blogger’s weapon of choice but also a hugely popular Content Management [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, WordPress on June 7th, 2010 13 Comments
I got a call from a potential client the other day and he asked me a very simple question. “Once you’ve created the website for me will you charge me every time I want to edit one of the pages?” And, although this is not the first time I have heard this question, it still [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, WordPress on May 26th, 2010 7 Comments
Blogs are, in my opinion, the easiest and best way to get stuff on the web. With a blog you can publish constantly updated information about yourself, your company or your interests to the world. And what makes it even better is that this information is chronologically ordered and categorized for search engines almost automatically. [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Internet, WordPress on May 17th, 2010 4 Comments
Back in the olden days just after Al Gore invented the internet, designers designed and programmers programmed. The web was full of slow good-looking sites that didn’t do much and useful busy sites that, frankly, looked like a dog’s dinner. But every year since then more and more fantastically usable sites that also look great [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Internet on May 9th, 2010 9 Comments
Enter “web designer” in a search engine you will be confronted with thousands of results – how do you know which one to choose? What sort of website to you want to create? Web developers love jargon as they like to give your site a label. So is the site commercial (an e-commerce or affiliate [...]
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Article filed under: Internet on May 3rd, 2010 17 Comments
I haven’t written as many posts as I would have liked on this blog in the last couple of months. The reason? I have been creating an e-book which will be used as an incentive for join my mailing list. It’s ready now! Why did I do this? Many reasons … I wanted to do [...]
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Article filed under: InDesign, Internet, Marketing on April 7th, 2010 6 Comments
When writing a WordPress post it is extremely important to make it as visually appealing as possible. Visitors are much more likely to spend a bit of time on the page if it has a nice image and the text is laid out in a pleasing way. Images are important in terms of SEO. If [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, WordPress on March 21st, 2010 4 Comments
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