Why Serious Bloggers Should Transition From Blogger to WordPress
A prospective client recently asked me about transitioning from a Blogger-hosted blog to a WordPress one … Here’s the number one reason I think all serious bloggers should transition from Blogger to a WordPress blog, hosted on your own custom domain name: OWNERSHIP, FLEXIBILITY AND CONTROL Ok, so that’s three … but since I think
Issues Generally Not Covered in a Free WordPress Theme Release
After more than 30 free WordPress theme releases to the public (aka community), I’m starting to see a trend in the comments I get in the support posts from users of my free themes. So I thought I’d take the time — ala this post — to inform my users in particular of what typical
How to Paste Text From Microsoft Word Into WordPress Blog
If you’ve been using WordPress for long, you know that if you try to simply copy and paste something from Microsoft Word into WordPress, you’ll get a big mess … your theme (aka template) will get messed up … if you’ve used colors or different fonts in the Word document, you’ll see all shades of
My Top 25 Favorite Blogs and Feed Reads
This post started out as The Best Sites on Blogging, but turned into listing all my favorite blog reads. They aren’t listed in order or anything. So here goes: Problogger – Darren sets the bar for class — and content — in the blogosophere Copyblogger – How to write great content Daily Blog Tips –
Direct Response Web 2.0 Free WordPress Theme
In collaboration with copywriter Ray Edwards, we’re releasing a free WordPress theme based on the custom blog design I created for him — called Direct Response Web 2.0. Key features: Web 2.0 look Widget ready Two columns Download the theme here. This will be the support post for this theme. Please report all theme-related problems
I’m Featured in Penelope Trunk’s Coachology
One of my clients – Yahoo! Columnist Penelope Trunk – recently featured me in her regular Coachology post section. As part of the post, I offered to help redesign the blog of one of her readers … The winner was Sheryl Sisk Schelin of The Inspired Solo. Sheryl, who is an attorney, seeks to offer
The Long Tail of Blogging
I’ve been reading Chris Anderson’s excellent book The Long Tail. (Yes, I know, I’m arriving late to this party!) There are so many implications to what I’m doing online with The Long Tail. But the immediate one that occurred to me was the Long Tail of Blogging. Here’s my personal experience with this … On
5 Reasons Why I Love Doing Business Online
I love the web. I cherish the web. I think a lot about the web. Although there are a lot of dangers and some bad, ridiculous and horrific abuses of it … I’m still very fond of this remarkable communications technology. Just reflecting on the last year of intensely focusing my efforts and time into
Design or Content: What’s More Important
Daniel’s got Mark Goush of Weblog Tools Collection (an outstanding site for WordPress stuff) and EngTech facing off over at Daily Blog Tips today. One of the questions he asked them was: “What is more important, the content or the design?” Mark’s answer was: Both. Design and content are both responsible for bringing users back
On Creating Blog Spillover Success
It’s been neat over the last year to watch my traffic on my various blogs … including the most trafficked blogs and how, as I have interlinked them, the traffic spills over to the others. Of course, spillover traffic on each blog isn’t 100 percent … not even close. But there is a smaller, but