The job isn’t over when a blogger publishes a blog post. Indeed, for some it has only just begun. Many bloggers will try to maximize the exposure for each post through submitting the post to various social media sites. I will be talking about social media a lot but before that there are also a [...]
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Article filed under: Blogging, Social media, WordPress on July 26th, 2010 18 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
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
I have just made another website using WordPress as a CMS for an international internet service provider. I worked for quite a while on the design stages with the client. We went through 14 visuals for the home page before I started to work on coding the WordPress theme. Here is one of the last [...]
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Article filed under: WordPress on November 30th, 2009 5 Comments
I wanted to add a photo gallery to this website quickly the other day and to do this I used the NextGEN Gallery plugin. It seemed to be generally well-received by the WordPress community and I wasn’t disappointed. I literally had my gallery up and running in five minutes! The plugin was created by Alex [...]
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Article filed under: WordPress on November 8th, 2009 No Comments
So you’ve got your self-hosted WordPress blog set up, optimized and have already published a few great posts and you want to offer an RSS feed and email subscription to your posts. What is RSS? RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication and is a format used to publish frequently updated content from the web on [...]
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Article filed under: Design, Internet, Marketing, WordPress on August 3rd, 2009 6 Comments
Constantly updated quality content is the mainstay of any website or blog. I have already described how to set up a WordPress.org blog and what to write about when you have one. Here’s the “how to” for those new-ish to WordPress… There are three things to remember when you are writing: Make your text scannable! [...]
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Article filed under: Internet, SEO, WordPress on April 27th, 2009 20 Comments
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