Category: General

  • WordPress Givaways

    WordPress Givaways

    One way to enhance your website is to add premium plugins or themes to help you get your site the way you want it. Today, a website opened it’s doors called Win WordPress Stuff. This idea is actually near and dear to my heart as it is similar to a previous project of mine (which…

  • Do you have a question about your website?

    Do you have a question about your website?

    I have greatly enjoyed the interactions I have had with my readers thus far in the life of this blog. I have interacted with people across the world and it really is fun. I created a new blog category last week to highlight questions from readers called “I have a question”. Previously I’ve asked people to…

  • Why should my small business have a website?

    Often times small business owners see a website as a huge hassle and wonder if it is even worth the time, effort, or expense to set one up. You might ask around with other business owners and find out that their website cost them hundreds or thousands of dollars, and they don’t even use it.…

  • Small Business Kickstart Kit

    Small Business Kickstart Kit

    So you are here because either you have some interest in starting a business or you have a business and you want to create a website for it. I am a memeber of the Small Business Bonfire (join free here). I was recently made aware the Alyssa has created a “Small Business Kickstart Kit” and…

  • WordPress Shopping Cart Plugins

    I wanted to let you all know about something I’m working on that will hopefully be out next week.  I have had the opportunity over the years to use a handful of shopping cart plugins that integrate into WordPress.  Some have been integrated into themes and some have been standalone plugins. Now I’m not going…

  • I installed a new plugin, what do you think?

    I installed a new plugin, what do you think?

    I’ve just installed a new plugin called ThumbSniper.  What it does is it pops up a little box on certain links (you can set it to external, all, or even specific links) that shows a preview of the page you will be going to.  For instance if I put a link to bluehost when you…

  • Customizing your website menu

    One of the things that I want when I create a website is control. I hate being locked in and having to do something the way someone else thought it should be done. In recent revisions WordPress has allowed us to create custom menus and has exposed this ability to theme designers. Many new themes…

  • 24 Clean Business Templates for WordPress

    24 Clean Business Templates for WordPress

    One of the great benefits of WordPress is the plethora of great themes and templates on the Internet. You can download one of these themes and easily install it on your website and have a professional look without the cost of hiring a designer. I went through a whole bunch of designs from ThemeForest, WordPress.org,…

  • WordPress is downloaded a TON!

    Pekka over at WPBiz.net recently put some information in front of me that shocked me.  In this post he confirmed my suspicion that WordPress really is the top CMS (Content Management System) out there.  In his article he pointed to the 2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Report where they made it clear that WordPress is the top.  According…

  • The First Plugin I Would Install On Your Website

    There is one plugin (ok there are a few) that I install on every WordPress website that I create.  I know I haven’t talked much about plugins but this one just saved me a ton of time today so I wanted to just give it a shout-out and point you in that direction in case…