Blog Challenge Update

What a week, this 30 day blog challenge I’ve imposed on myself has been a little more difficult than I thought it might have been. Thinking of post material and writing the posts etc. Now that it’s about done I’m thinking maybe a couple guest posters may have helped. Then reason for the challenge was…

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Web Hosting: Domain vs Add on Domain

Since I own a couple Web hosting business and am a web guy as well, I’m frequently asked the question what is the difference between an add-on domain versus a regular domain. This sounds confusing already I know because most people think of a domain as being the name of the website and not the…

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Time for Training

Well, I’m planning my up coming training schedule and thinking about changing it up a bit. I used to do all of my training courses at 3pm eastern in the afternoon, then I switched to 9pm in the evening. I’ve never tried early morning yet and might be interesting to try that time, possibly 9am.…

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Not Very Beneficial

This mistake is directed at the sales page but could apply to an entire website. So many times we miss the boat with this one – we craft a nice looking page and have fairly decent sales copy on the page.ร‚ย  But, for whatever reason, we don’t seem to be getting the sales we think…

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Comments With “Face” Value

If you’ve looked at many blogs you’ve probably noticed in the comments section that several of the comments have an image of the person leaving the comment. Of course not all blogs do this some have a preset image or icon. I’d thought I would share in this post how you can set this for…

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Graphic Resources

Occasionally I’m asked about where I get my graphics and of course there is not just one source. Many of the graphics I create myself either from scratch or with added stock photos. For the stock photos I use either Istockphoto.com or fotolia.com. As for the logos I don’t create myself I’ve used designoutpost.com and…

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Lets Get Social…

Every where you look it’s “find us on Facebook”. Or “Follow us out on Twitter” of course there’s linkedIN, Google Buzz and others as well. I know many people use these sites just to connect, some are using it for marketing strategies. I’m curious what social sites do you use, and how do you use…

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Where Did I Put That?

I ask myself this question frequently! (where did I put that information?) In the process of trying to get so much done in a short period of time I’ve been keeping notes in one of three places two of which are written just for the fact that sometimes it’s just faster to write something down.…

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Code for the New Year

With the New Year now being here many people will need to update their footer on their sites. Well, that is unless you’ve taken one of my classes ๐Ÿ˜‰ For those of you that have not… Here is a simple code that you can add to your site so you’ll never have to change the…

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WordPress Security

Some on recently asked what I use to secure my WordPress sites. Here is a few things I suggest I’m sure there is probably a lot more solutions this is what I find quickest and easiest. First when creating the password for the site and the WordPress user make sure to use a secure password.…

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Who’s Watching Your Blog?

I was recently reading a post at TechCrunch about how one browser has over taken another one as the most popular browser for views on their site. This got me wondering when was the last time I actually checked my stats for my blog? I get so busy with product creation, support, and normal day…

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50 Biggest Website Mistakes Update

OK, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted – I’m hoping to post more here in the near future. As you’ll soon see I’ve been quite busy the last couple of months AND I’ve gotten a little “stuck” as to what to write about. Maybe you can help with that in just a minute. As you…

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