Elevate SEO
A couple months back, I signed up to be a beta tester for a new WordPress Plugin being developed by a friend of mine. I’ve been a blogger for a decade and I even teach this stuff. All of my […]
5 Tips for Food and Travel Bloggers
Have you ever dreamed of being a food or travel writer? One of the things I love love love about the internet is that it has allowed for anyone to get published. I took Don Genova’s Travel Writing class at […]
What is Responsive Design? [Infographic]
As the world moves more and more onto smart phones, website design is starting to catch up. If you’ve ever been on your smart phone and had to squint at the screen to see where to click, or had to […]
Outbound Linking, Hummingbird and SEO
Given that I’ve been blogging for 6 years, and for most of that time, at the pace of 3 posts a week, I have amassed a few guest posts on this site. As the only writer for my blog, and […]
How To Find A Good Web Designer
A guest post for you today by Robert Dall, Developer at 32 Spokes Design. F inding someone to build your website is a lot like finding a mechanic for your car. There are a lot of people who do it, […]
A Web Designer’s Top 8 WordPress Plugins
Guest Post by C. Mairin Deery As a web designer and developer that works with a lot of small and non-profit/not-for-profit projects, I learned quickly that WordPress was the best platform out there. There’s a plugin for practically everything, and the […]
The Starbucks App
Witness my love/hate relationship with Starbucks. While I resent them for being a huge, faceless corporation that sells, for the most part, terrible-tasting, too sweet, overpriced caffeinated beverages, I still go there. There’s one on every street corner, it seems, […]
WordPress Pro
I left my WordPress-hosted blog just over a year ago, for the beautifully-designed layout you see before you today (thanks, Janet Baxter!). If you aren’t familiar with WordPress, it’s a web-based blogging engine, and when you get a WordPress blog, […]
Don’t Make Me Think
As you know, I recently got a redesign done on my website. One of the books I read in preparation for this is Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think. Have you ever heard of Useability? Useablity is the study of […]
My Makeover
Welcome to my shiny new website! This makeover has been a long time coming. Many, many months ago, I realized that my blog, The Art of the Business, was getting several hundred hits a day, while my website was getting […]