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The Basics of Editing your New WordPress Site

11.06.09

Most of the websites I have worked on over the last couple years have been built using WordPress, one of the best Content Management Systems available. It is extremely flexible and powerful, with great tools for Search Engine Optimization already built in.

For a new user, however, it can be a …

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Categories: Articles, Downloads, How To, Resources, WordPress, WordPress Tutorials.

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Latest and Greatest WordPress Plugins

05.12.09

This is a list of WordPress Plugins that I use and recommend for almost every WordPress site I work on. I will try to keep it up to date with the best that I can find in each category. There are plenty of great plugins out there, but I find …

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Categories: Articles, WordPress, WordPress Resources.

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Optimize Your WordPress Site

05.12.09

WordPress has become one of the most powerful and most-used blogging and Content Management Systems in the world in part due to its incredible flexibility and ability to be customized. So it is surprising to learn that the default installation is lacking in a few ways. But because of the …

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Categories: Articles, SEO, WordPress, WordPress Tutorials.

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BlogStarter – Behind the Scenes

05.12.09

WARNING: If you’re not a CSS or WordPress geek, this post could be a little boring and tech-heavy to you. You can read the quick and easy version here. Or…
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Categories: Articles, WordPress, WordPress Themes.

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GridStarter – The Web Design Starter Grid

05.09.09

GridStarter is a Photoshop template used to make the initial layout of a new website easier and more efficient.

Through a series of grid overlays, it is possible to very quickly and easily line up page elements and make view them the way they will be seen in a browser. I …

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Categories: Downloads, How To.

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Should the new DiggBar be blocked?

04.11.09

Has anyone else been hearing the controversy over the new DiggBar? Digg has been one of the biggest names in blog and website listing sites for years. Most sites now have the share buttons or even a specific link to ‘Digg This’, allowing visitors to vote on a sitIf your …

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Categories: Articles, SEO.

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Should you use subdomains or subdirectories?

04.08.09

I receieved an interesting question from one of my photographer friends Gustavo Fernandez today. “Why do some folk have their address as blog.domain.com vs domain.com/blog? Is there a benefit?”

I started to write back, but in doing a couple quick searches in the name of research, I found enough …

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Categories: Hosting, SEO.

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Adding TinyMCE text editor to Project Pier

04.03.09

I have recently started using the open source project management app called Project Pier to organize and coordinate my website projects. It is similar to some of the popular hosted services like Basecamp, …

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Categories: How To.

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The Spectrum and Spiral of Social Media

03.13.09

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Categories: Ideas.

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Using the Website Grader service from Hubspot

02.01.09

In a post last week, PIFPhoto.com talked about Google’s Keyword tool, one of the great free tools made available by Google for free to help analyze, enhance and promote your website. I left a comment mentioning a site called grader.com, which offers a number of …

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Categories: Blog, How To, SEO.

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