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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 [...]

As our blogs age, content gets buried in our archives. I suggest going through your older posts and find your favorites (find the gold) and pull them up for your audience. Your reader base has grown and many haven’t seen your older posts. I’m featuring a different post each week as I go through my [...]

WordPress makes it easy to add content from other sites to your sidebars through widgets. You can add tweets to your blog, links from your other sites such as social media, a podcast site, trending topics in your niche, etc. The best part is that this updates automatically with fresh content, links.

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 [...]