A number of people have contacted me about how to move their Typepad blogs over to Wordpress. Typepad doesn’t make it easy. But at least you can Export a Typepad blog to your computer desktop as a .txt file.
Then, Wordpress – the friendliest blog platform – makes it easy for you to import. First, though, [...]
There was so much traffic on my blog, David Henderson.com, about an evolving crisis communications situation involving Ketchum Public Relations and FedEx that it crashed my new VPS hosting service with InMotion Hosting. Let me express that I believe InMotion is an outstanding Web hosting company. A quick call to their 24-hour live tech team [...]
This is an excellent testament to the merits of using the latest version of Wordpress – version 2.7 – and the Thesis theme for Wordpress from popular blogger, Chris Brogan:
The other day, Chris Pearson kindly upgraded my site to WordPress 2.7. I asked him to do so because I wasn’t sure if his customized Thesis [...]
These two plugins for Wordpress self-hosted blogs help to bring added visibility to your blog, and are both very easy to install and configure. I use and recommend both.
First is WPtouch by Doug Mugford and Duane Storey. WPtouch delivers an iPhone-friendly blog presentation for anyone who views your blog on an iPhone (photo on right). [...]
Powerpoint has been around for so long that … well, many if not most Powerpoint presentations are pretty boring. There is a newer style that’s actually easier and enables you to create visually compelling and engaging presentations – Animoto and SlideRocket.
While both Animoto and SlideRocket are good and reasonable, I recommend using SlideRocket for business [...]
Over the holidays, there were some “too-good-to-be-true” sales on Web site hosting by some hosting companies. “Unbelievably low” prices! You know the hype. One hosting company got so many inquiries that its site crashed … that is not a good sign.
Let me explain why hosting prices have gotten so low:
Competition among an over-supply. There are [...]
There is a lot of buzz about the new Thesis theme for Wordpress. So, I asked the people at Thesis for a few words to describe what’s special about this popular theme:
You want your blog to shine, but you’re tired of sifting through hundreds of subpar themes? DIYthemes is proud to bring you the answer [...]
No one wants their blog to get hacked. But, it is happening more frequently by obviously malicious hackers. Part of the reason could be because everyone knows the username of any Wordpress blog – it’s admin. So, all a hacker has to do is develop a software program to figure out the password.
If you have [...]
I am asked regularly for guidance on selecting themes for new Wordpress blogs. So, I thought I would write a suggestions here.
While Wordpress is a fabulous behind-the-scenes software that powers each Wordpress blog, a theme gives a blog its visual appearance. There are thousands of Wordpress themes, and most are free or available for a [...]
Wordpress 2.7, a significant redesign inside and out of the popular blog software, is now available for download and installation. Download from Wordpress.org.
About the installation, I found it to be extremely easy – simply upload all of the new Wordpress 2.7 files into a blog’s folder that contains Wordpress. Wordpress 2.7 installs over the older [...]
Hi there. I'm Michael Pollock, and I train coaches, consultants and other solo-professionals on how to use the web to impact more people, earn more money and live a bigger life ... continued.
