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Several years back I realized it’d be quite helpful for a business owner to have their own website. Not necessarily a blog, I thought blogs were online personal diaries, and why would I want my private ramblings public? My own personal website though would be cool. So I checked into making a website, not knowing [...]

photo credit: seyed mostafa zamani Three years back I wrote a post about why you shouldn’t grab images from google images and post to your blog. I love photos, both taking my own, and viewing the work of others. I’m amazed at the talent out there. Love that through flickr we have images we have [...]

WordPress is a great tool, at least until it is hacked. One reason to keep your sites updated. WordPress themes are great fun, like a wardrobe for your website, change themes and you change the look and feel of your site. There are premium themes (ones you pay for, and should have customer support to [...]

Are free WordPress themes really free? Well, that depends. No upfront cost to you, but did the last person to modify the theme add anything nasty to it? Now I don’t have a problem giving credit to a theme’s designer for their work with a link. I do object when they add some kind of [...]

No one wants to wake up in the morning (afternoon, evening or even middle of the night) and find your website now says “Hacked by . . .” or that their sites fail altogether. Worse yet your site may be hacked and you not even know it. There may be hidden links, not visible to [...]

One of my favorite features of the newer wordpress versions, is that you can search and install plugins from within the dashboard of wordpress. Follow along as I add Blubrry Powerpress Plugin, if you want to add a podcast to your website, it is worth checking out.