Advice I Give To My Clients: Get This FTP Program … SmartFTP
If you’re going to do much work on the web besides typical posting, etc. on your blog, you’re going to need a good FTP program. My suggestion is SmartFTP … pretty neat program. It remembers you addresses, passwords, etc. And you can have multiple tabs and thus sites up.
Linkbait These 40 Big Boys and Girls
Frantic Industries has a post listing the Top 40 Blogs according to their Feedburner reader stats. I’d venture to say … get linked by ANY of them, especially if they’re in your blog topic, and you’re likely to score some HUGE traffic and launch your blog onto a whole new level. On my main blog,…
I Just Couldn’t Resist …
My wife and I are raving lunatic fans of NBC’s The Office … in fact, my cousin gave me a Dwight Shrute Bobblehead for my birthday that will soon be adorning my desk. Here’s a preview clip of what’s coming up next on The Office.
I Lied … RockinRedhead is My Next Free WordPress Release
Just released RockinRedHead … a 2-column, widget ready, red and white free WordPress theme with orange highlights. Download it here. Demo it here. But seriously … I think NotePad will be my next release. It’s odd … but who cares.
My Next Free WordPress Theme Release: A Simple NotePad
Just looking at some of the free WordPress themes out there … I couldn’t help but think there needed to be a theme where someone could just jot their notes … or research … or scribbles of short thoughts using WordPress. The obstacle I saw is that so many themes are designed for lots of…
Advice I Give To My Clients: On Finding Quality Photos
One of the hardest things about blogging is finding quality photos to use in your graphical headers. Here are a couple of places I use to find top-notch photos and graphics. IStockPhotos – it’s a paid site, but the quality is great Stock.Xchng – free site, good stuff, check the restrictions Flickr’s Creative Commons photos…
Advice I Give My Clients: Add This To Your Blog
One of the things I’ve struggled with is adding social bookmarking functions like del.icio.us and Digg to my blogs … Now with AddThis, it is all bundled into one nice, neat, little button. Check out the AddThis WordPress Plugin also. [Originally seen and coveted on ProBlogger]
The Darkside … My First Dark Free WordPress Theme Released
Yes, I’ve gone to the Darkside … with RockinDarkQ. Download it here. Demo it here. Look for a three column version coming up … Oh, while you’re at it … check out Nathan’s RockinSeaside … most people don’t know it, but he’s one heck of a WordPress coder … and if you check out that…
Blogs Can Be a High-Tech Resume
I’m a big Penelop Trunk fan and reading her post Blogging Essential For a Good Career again made me think about the web design work I’m doing — i.e. custom WordPress themes — and how, as she pointed out in that post, blogging can be leveraged to “get a job.” Speaking from experience, I personally…
How To Launch a Wildly Successful Web 2.0 Company and Get Rich
Just reading some of the awesome success stories of Web 2.0 companies and seeing them cash out and become instant millionaires … I thought I’d throw up my “how to get rich” list … I must say … I’m not rich, have never cashed out … and probably never will in this way … and…