Archive for the 'Wordpress' Category

Cheaponomics

While it may not be one of the slickest of presentations (like, who cares?!), Keir Whitaker’s “Cheaponomics” is certainly one of the most informative and valuable presentations on new trends, services and tools available in the fast-evolving blogosphere.
Keir works with Carsonified, an exceptional Web application and site development company based in Bath, England, and he [...]

Search Plugin on Steroids

Many thanks to Brian who read my post on some of the best Wordpress plugins and brings my attention to Search-Unleashed from Urban Giraffe. Search-Unleashed enhances the normal Search box on your blog to deliver deep, fast results and highlighted keywords.  Best I have seen. 
You can check it out - it’s already in use on [...]

Best Plugins for Wordpress

Let’s consider this subject an ongoing and expanding list of good plugins for Wordpress that deliver valuable and useful features for bloggers.  Plugins are a big reason for choosing the Wordpress blog platform.  For example, the ShareThis at the end of this post is a plugin.  Subscribe (in the center column under Pages) is a [...]

Making Sense of Online Rankings

For sake of transparency, let me say that I have not found one easy way to make sense of site rankings, especially since blogs came on the scene. When TV correspondent Greg Dobbs and I founded BoomerCafé in the summer of 1999, about all we had was whether the site showed up eventually on [...]

Web Hosting: Look Beyond Odd Names

Web hosting services is how you get a blog (or Web site) online. They are the conduit to the Internet. Today, Web hosting has gotten very affordable inexpensive low cheap dirt cheap. For as low as $4.95 a month, you can sign-up with a first-rate Web hosting company and be online within minutes. [...]

How-To Start Your Own Wordpress Blog

How to get a custom, personalized blog site up and running with you in charge of your own domain … yourname.com or .net … that will support your business, your organization or yourself. What are the steps? What comes first?  And, how can you have your own blog on your own domain name [...]

Why Use Wordpress

Wordpress is the world’s most popular and reliable software platform for self-hosted blogs.*
Think of Wordpress as the behind-the-scenes engine that makes it all possible to use a seemingly infinite choice of themes for sites and useful interactive tools, such as the ability to easily post new and timely information from any computer that’s online … [...]