Category Archives: Blog Services
February 14th, 2011
When working with pre-designed themes (such as ElegantThemes.com) it’s recommended to always add your own small touches to make it more personal. Blogging is more than just about information, the way your blog looks is just as important. A new logo, catchy slogan, background images, and even changing the theme colors can have a dramatic affect on how the world sees your blog.
February 10th, 2011
Whether a supporter of the politics of our current President, or not, I admire our administration’s persistent use of social media. In a previous post, I promised to keep readers armed with ideas and examples of best practices. Recent activity from our President’s blog demonstrates a business case for large scale, meaningful communication.
December 20th, 2010
WordPress, though amazing, is not prone to hacking attempts… Here’s a few steps you can take in securing your blog.
Use a secure password and change it often
I bet your password is your last name and some characters? Your dogs name? Your favorite flower? If your password is even remotely as easy to guess as my examples then you should consider using a different password. Ideally it will be at least 8 characters long and include letters and numbers, both lower case and upper case.
December 14th, 2010
I’ve written about WordPress now more times than I can count but it’s just because I can’t get enough of it! So we asked some of our clients… “Why did you pick WordPress over various other platforms?” and I thought you’d find the responses interesting.
June 25th, 2010
Blogging is a simple and straightforward way to steadily keep up-to-date content on your website. Countless sites today are utilizing blogs and getting exceptional results.
As previously mentioned, blogging software not only keeps up-to-date content on your website, but provides an unparalleled source of traffic as well. Search engines like Google thrive on it. Their bots (a software that collects information from the web) continuously check for new posts on your blog, and those updates keep them coming back for more.
June 19th, 2010
A lot has changed with the release of WordPress Version 3.0, the latest update to the popular blog publishing platform. Its users can expect numerous additions to the blogging software that will greatly improve its functionality and performance. WordPress 3.0 is the result of six months of development by over 200 contributors.
March 24th, 2010
If you’re new to FeedBurner you should check it out! All blogs come with a special file called RSS or most commonly expanded as “Really Simple Syndication”. It is a web based feed used to publish blog entries, news headlines etc in a standardized format. In other words every time you write and publish a new blog post on your blog, it updates your RSS feed with the latest blog entry. Your blog visitors can then choose to subscribe to your feed with their web browser or email application such as Gmail or even specialized RSS Reader software such as Google Reader. After that every time you publish something on your blog they’ll receive a notification that there’s something new on your blog, without having to go to your blog every now and then wondering if it was updated.
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