There’s a long list of best practices for making your website load quickly. If you’re a design/interactive marketing agency, this is especially important. Often times you don’t have maybe have your actual website loading quickly, but other things are preventing it from being quick and snappy. A lot of these things have to do with […]
June 17, 2010 By 5 Comments
WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” Has Been Released!
Earlier today I came across an article on WordPress.Org that WordPress 3.0 was released. For at least a half a year, WordPress Developers have been working hard to get the WordPress 3.0 released and there hard work has paid off! WordPress 3.0 is available for download and if you already have WordPress installed then all […]
June 16, 2010 By 3 Comments
Famous Bloggers Largest Guest Blogging Contest! Cash Rewards Totalling Over $3000
Yes, you read that right! Hesham over at Famous Bloggers and Andy Bailey of Comment Luv have set up one of the largest cash contests in the history blogging. Hesham and Andy with the help of a large list of sponors are out to help you make a lot of money! If you are up […]
June 15, 2010 By 14 Comments
Does Your Site have an Error 404 File Not Found Page?
So does your site have a 404 Page Not Found page? If so, do you think it is helpful to your readers? If you are a WordPress user and have not set one up yet, then odds are you might have one. You can easily check and see if you have one. The easiest way […]
June 10, 2010 By 9 Comments
Add Search Functionality to Your Site
Do you have a search field on your WordPress site? If not, why not add one. Having your own search engine for your site will help your visitors find what they are looking for and keep them on your site longer. By using a search field, visitors can type in a set of keywords and […]
June 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
Site Updates
Over the last few days I have made some changes and did some testing of few plugins and customization to my theme. For those that follow this blog regularly, will notice that I have removed the Sexy Bookmarks social bookmarking plugin from my site and I no longer have any of the major bookmarking tools […]
June 4, 2010 By 3 Comments
Took Some Much Needed Time Off
It’s been a few days since I last posted. I normally would have made several posts during the week, but since it was a holiday weekend, my wife and I decided to take some much needed time off and take a six day vacation away from social media, work and friends. Of course, we really […]
May 29, 2010 By 12 Comments
Free Market Research with Google Analytics
Do you know about the free market research available from Google Analytics? Yes, free! 95% of businesses fall into one of two categories: They think that analytics is technical and just for the tech geeks. They installed analytics with all good intentions, and never bothered to look at the reports. If that is you, then […]
May 27, 2010 By 16 Comments
2 Highly Useful Sitemap Plugins for WordPress
An important part of Search Engine optimization is having a site. A sitemap is a page of pages on a website. The pages are designed to make is easy for the web crawlers to find all of your content. Usually sitemaps are setup to be hierarchical. Being setup in this fashion not only helps the […]
May 25, 2010 By 4 Comments
Quick Tip: How To Use GIMP to Easily and Quickly Color Correct and Image
Everyday, I see social media users upload images that need color correction. As a designer and amateur photography fan I get turned off reading a blog or looking at images that are dull and boring. One of the easiest things you can do us a image editor and spend five minutes to correct the color […]
Site Updates – Issues with Intense Debate WordPress Comment System
Over the last few weeks Intense Debate commenting plugin for WordPress has been giving me headaches. For some reason, the comment system is scrambling the comments, not showing all comments, and putting weeks old comments with brand new comments. So if you see any posts that seem to have a lot of old ramdom posts, […]