I have an extensive background in how site design affects ecommerce sales and usability, so I have some very specific ideas about what makes the perfect WordPress design. Using WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) allows a blog to incorporate the best features of any Web site. These ideas include … [Read more...]
The Perfect WordPress Theme
Creating an exceptional online presence requires an enormous amount of specialized knowledge. A blog is only as usable and useful as the template it is built upon. I have been doing research, thinking about, and reading up on better blog design. While some bloggers do learn to make WordPress themes do you really want to invest that much time in something you only really have to do once? I've visited hundreds of blogs in the past few days making notes on what I like about each one - and … [Read more...]
How to Promote Your Business Online
Surely you want your current customers or clients to easily find your contact information, don't you? You can also make it easier for them to find out what hours you're open, what you sell, and how to find your Web site. Even your best customers could lose your phone number or not have it handy when they need it or want to share it with others! Do you want more business? … [Read more...]
Get Organized: Use Tomboy Notes
Do you ever forget where you wrote or saved something? Like to do research and need a way to keep track of it all? Wish you were more organized? Don't keep beating yourself up - you're probably gifted and need a better method to track it all. The free Open Source application Tomboy Notes which is now available for Unix, Windows and Mac is an elegantly simple solution. … [Read more...]
Oh I Wish I Were a True Geek!
Although some people object to being called geeks, I use the word geek lovingly: I wish I were one. I hope those who think technical things are so simple that the rest of us must be morons will read this post. Perhaps then they'll understand why mere mortals - and quasi-geeks like myself - have kept paying for operating systems and programs when better free versions are available. I finally figured out what the geeks have that we don't: awesome … [Read more...]
