2010

How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

July 1, 2010

Wondering how to speed up your WordPress-powered website?  As part of our 30 Days of WordPress fiesta, we are taking a look at Somone’s question about how to speed up her site. From Somone: Once a self-hosted WordPress site gets a decent amount of traffic, the use of plugins and other scripts that run to [...]

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Using WordPress for a Password-Protected Membership Site

June 30, 2010

As the kick-off question for my 30 Days of WordPress Questions, Christina asked a couple of questions.  One of them jumped out at me right away and that’s the question I’ll be answering first. Christina Asked: I’ve stayed away from WordPress because in the past, the CMS didn’t seem to measure up to corporate or [...]

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Best Social Media Icons, Ever

June 28, 2010

Peter Hyman (whose new blog we are about to launch) has officially discovered the best Social Media Icon set ever.  And it’s free too. A sample image is here, but there are plenty more icons in the whole pack.

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Got a WordPress Question? Ask it here and get a PR5 link and an answer… all for free!

June 28, 2010

So I’ve been really slacking on the blog posts lately.  If you check out my archives, you’ll see that it’s been about 2 posts per month (except for a few months where I’d do 5 or 6).  That’s just not enough posting. Part of the reason that it’s hard to post is trying to think [...]

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What You Can Do Right Now to Make Your Website Kick Butt

June 25, 2010

I’ve been making and improving websites for people for almost five years now.  And I’m always looking patterns that make webmasters successful over time.  Finally, I think I’ve found one such pattern. The Web is a Marketplace Before we dive into the pattern that makes a website successful, let’s play a little game:  Let’s think [...]

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Do you check email too often?

June 14, 2010

It seems like the obvious answer is no, right?  Is it possible to be too on top of it?  Can you be too informed? A couple of articles I’ve read lately have lead me to believe that yes, it is possible to be too informed. Let’s take a look at Dan Ariely’s (you might recognize [...]

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SWAY Search Wrap-Up for May 2010

May 24, 2010

This last week was tough.  On top of my brother’s accident that placed him in the hospital for a couple of days, Alaina and I worked long and hard to put together the first SWAY Search workshop.  Presenting the ideas that have helped me achieve some level of success in SEO proved to be more [...]

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Free Download: The SEO Popcorn Method

May 13, 2010

Click here to download now. What is The Popcorn Method? The popcorn method grew out of a problem I had recently. I needed to put a ton of content up quickly on a new WordPress-powered website and it all had to rank well. This is quite a serious task to be given, and the fact [...]

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iPad Usability: Reviews aren’t looking great

May 10, 2010

Jakob Nielsen, the God of usability, has his first article on the usability of the iPad. The summary doesn’t look too good: iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems. read the whole article here.

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In Defense of SEO

April 24, 2010

I’ve been listening to a lot of oxford-style debate thanks to NPR’s new and awesome show, Intelligence Squared. After hours of listening to thoughtful and well-spoken people debate the merits (and problems associated with) teachers’ unions, paying for sex, atheism, etc., it’s hard not to think about subject close to my heart with the same [...]

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The Golden Rule of Marketing is quite simple: Test Everything

April 5, 2010

Thanks a lot to Jonathan Boettcher who was kind enough to write this guest post.  Jonathan has an awesome blog and a really interesting take on marketing online.  Enjoy his guest post below and make sure to check his site out! Lately I’ve been doing a lot of testing with landing pages, and some interesting [...]

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Choosing a Web-Safe Font (In Thesis Theme or on any webpage!)

March 30, 2010

Unless you have a photographic memory or are a typgraphy buff, it can be really hard to remember what a font looks like from memory.  Sometimes you just need to see the font in action to determine which font is going to work best. This week I’ve been really busy making Thesis Theme powered websites [...]

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VaultPress: WordPress’ new security suite is recruiting beta testers

March 30, 2010

Well what a great idea the folks at WordPress(/automattic) have come up with.  It’s called VaultPress. Let’s take a step back for a sec. Crap happens.  And when your blog gets hacked you don’t want to be wishing that you’d been making backups.  Not everyone that uses WordPress is a WordPress consultant and shouldn’t be [...]

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How to Redirect 404′s to your Home Page in WordPress

March 24, 2010

You’d be amazed how many 404 errors even the best websites have.  Short of having an amazing 404 page, the best quick fix is to redirect your 404 errors to your home page. (And before the technical folks jump in and say all the reasons why a it’s a bad idea to redirect 404 errors [...]

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Video: Controlling Thesis Theme’s Columns and Width

March 24, 2010

As easy as it can be to adjust your number of columns and widths of columns in Thesis Theme once you know how to do it, it’s not always easy to figure out how to do it the first time. And there is a best size that isn’t easy to figure out either but that becomes [...]

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Video: How to Make Your Thesis Theme Background Darker

March 23, 2010

There is a post on diythemes.com (the site where you get Thesis Theme) that helps explain how to change your default Thesis Theme background, add a border, and do some other cool stuff. One of the examples from the article on diythemes that I always really liked was the ability to make your background a [...]

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Video: How to Install Thesis Openhook

March 22, 2010

Thesis Openhook is one of my favorite plugins.  Below is a quick video showing you how you can install Thesis Openhook. It really only takes about 10 seconds to actually install the plugin, so the other 57 seconds is basically me stalling.  Enjoy… If you don’t own thesis yet, Buy Thesis Theme Here, or get [...]

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Come see me speak at SWAY Workshop

March 19, 2010

My friend and colleague Alaina S. were discussing workshops a few months ago.  One of the common complaints that you hear a lot is that it’s hard to take what you learned and make it actionable.  There are a lot of great lofty ideas, but what does someone do, step-by-step, when they get bac to [...]

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Headway 1.6 is Released

March 15, 2010

For Headway users who have been waiting for a new version or people looking at buying Headway but wanted it to mature a bit more… your wait is over. The developer behind Headway has released Headway 1.6.  From the email I received, it seems as though there were some bug issues with the previous version [...]

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Scribe SEO Freebies: Get 2 Free eBooks with Purchase (Just Released)

February 16, 2010

SEO for WordPress will never be the same with Brian Clark’s new ScribeSEO plugin. This plugin has just launched, so if you haven’t heard of it you really have to check it out now. The brains behind Thesis Theme and Copyblogger is the founder of this new plugin, so you know it’s going to be [...]

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