WordPress website designed with a little jQuery

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 of [...]

Create a photo gallery on your WordPress blog with NextGEN Gallery

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 Rabe [...]

How to market yourself #8: How to offer RSS feed and email subscriptions

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 the web. [...]

How to market yourself #7: How to write and design a WordPress page or post

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! That means, [...]

How to market yourself #5: How to optimize your WordPress site for search engines

This is the fifth in the series where I explain how an individual or small or medium sized organization can get themselves noticed in the big bad world.
Other installments explained how to set up a web site from scratch, how to install WordPress and what to write on your site.
Before we commence a couple [...]

How to market yourself #4: What to write in your blog or website

So you’ve got your WordPress blog set up and you are just starting to write – what you do?
Words are, in my opinion, the most important thing on a website. This is because the search engine robots that crawl the web every day can pretty much “read” what you’ve written, but they can’t look at [...]

How to market yourself #3: How to install a WordPress blog on your site

In the previous post in my How to market yourself series, I described how to set up a website on a host’s server. Here I will tell you how to set up a WordPress blog on that server. Read my introduction to this self-marketing series here.
OK, so this information exists elsewhere on the internet, so [...]

How to market yourself #2: How to set up a website

This is the second post in my How to market yourself series, a personal account of the best marketing techniques you can employ for yourself or your business. Read my introduction to this self-marketing series here.
There are three things you need to do when setting up your website.

Decide on your website address (URL)
Register it
Find a [...]