Category: General
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What is a WordPress widget?
What is a widget? Most WordPress themes today come with “widget” areas that allow you to add custom content into the theme without having to be a programmer. Most of the time widgets are in the sidebar of the theme. On this site you can see my “about me” widget, as well as a widget…
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Does my business really need a blog?
In Crush It!, Gary Vaynerchuk says, “Your website is for communicating logistics and facilitating sales, your blog is for communicating the essence of your brand.” What exactly does that mean? It means that there are two aspects to business, your products and services you sell, and the relationships you have with your customers and clients. The website…
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What is the first thing you do when you sit down at a computer?
Seth Godin proposes in his most recent blog post that it is probably to consume information of some sort. This could take many forms from checking email, facebook, twitter, or even our website statistics to see how many visitors we have that day. Seth then goes on to make the point that the first thing…
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Business Websites 101
I realized today that with all this content on this website it is getting hard to find where to start. To make things easier I created a new navigation link called “Business Website 101” that lists the links to the posts in the order that you need to go through them to get your website…
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Why FREE themes aren’t always good
I read an interesting article by Siobhan McKeown on WPMU.org last night about free WordPress themes. Siobhan went through the top ten results for free WordPress themes and ran security checks against them to see what they contained. (I don’t recommend doing this on your own as installing these themes could cause huge security issues with your website.)…
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First set of Guides for setting up your business website with WordPress
I’ve just completed my first two quickstart guides to help you start creating your new business websites using wordpress. The first is a guide on buying a domain name and the second is a guide on buying your web hosting. I hope that you will find the guides useful in getting started with your business…
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A home for those who don’t know where to start with creating a business website
I am creating this site as a location for me to write up all the knowledge I have about creating a business website using WordPress. WordPress started in 2003 as a technology for those who wanted to start blogs. Over the years is has developed and is no longer just a platform or tool for…