Facebook Chat: One More Reason to Get Hooked
It seems to me the value of Facebook and MySpace and the other big social networking sites who have cashed in on huge valuations and venture capital is in the number of users they have signed up … but also how often and long those users use the service. In other words, the key to…
Download 8 Free WordPress iThemes
iThemes and 1800blogger have partnered to release 8 new free WordPress themes to the WP community. We designed the themes for 1800blogger blogs, with the intent of releasing them to the public as well, so each theme is targeted to a specific niche, including: Finance, Healthcare, Personal, Political, Social (my personal favorite) and Sports. This…
How to Keep Up With Twitter
Thanks to seeing Ryan’s use of this service, now I’m finding out How to Follow Twitter, or my Peeps’ Tweets, or whatever…
Our New Puppy
I came home from Phoenix on Friday night to a wonderful surprise — a new puppy!
In Beautiful Phoenix
I’m in Phoenix this week to present a couple of seminars on web design for a Christian communicators group and had a moment to sit in the cool air, with a coffee in hand, for about 20 minutes of pure, quiet, peaceful reflection. This was the photo I snapped with my phone. … I’ll let…
The Best Upgrades of WordPress 2.5
Ryan gives the Best 5 Upgrades found in WordPress 2.5
Why Free Internet Delivery Is the Future for TV and Movies
I’ve been using Hulu.com for a couple of weeks now and absolutely love it! My wife and I are getting more and more accustomed to watching TV shows (due to the writer’s strike) online with our laptops …. and when I heard about this awesome venture between NBC and Fox, I jumped on a beta…
Start a Custom WordPress Theme Freelance Web Business
With our new Web Developer’s Package at iThemes, you can start a custom WordPress theme development business. I think the 9 themes included in the series could give you everything you need … … A photo gallery theme that can be used to display your freelance portfolio … An ecommerce theme to help your clients…
Build an Ecommerce Store with WordPress
Call me crazy, but I like to push WordPress as far as I can to do what I want to do! That includes using it to create and maintain an ecommerce shop — like what we’re doing at iThemes. So we’ve built our first Ecommerce Theme … and launched a new division for this niche…
Nathan’s 7 Essential WordPress Plugins
Nathan Rice, our lead developer at iThemes, just posted his 7 Essential WordPress Plugins … whenever Nathan suggests something I listen closely