If you enjoy communicating your passion and ideas on a regular basis, business blogging can be a powerful part of your marketing plan, helping you get found and converting leads into sales.
Business blogging is a great way to drive traffic to your web site.  By linking to other sites and using targeted keywords and tags, [...]

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Webmonkey created a very useful html Cheatsheet for those who want learn enough html to get around WordPress.  Webmonkey is a powerful resource for web developers and very useful for the shade tree WordPress user.  This sheet is very useful for those who need  a reminder and those who are blazing a trail on their [...]

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Every day my coaching clients and students ask me where to look for themes to give their WordPress sites a fresh look.  I’ve compiled a few theme sites here.  If you have others you want to recommend, please leave a comment!
1. ithemes: I use the Blogging Success theme for my sales page sites.  These paid [...]

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Using images can really make your blog posts “pop.”  For my personal blogging, my favorite source for images is the Flickr community.  You can do a search for tagged images that allow usage with a Creative Commons license.  Essentially, you don’t have to pay for the image if you follow the creator’s guidelines, which most [...]

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If you are a WordPress beginner, you will probably want to expand your site’s capabilities at some point. I’ve created a list of some of the most important plug-ins I feel are essential to getting the most out of WordPress.
1. Google Analyticator 2.2
This widget easily links your WordPress blog to the powerful and free [...]

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A lot of my students at the Dojo want to practice with WordPress locally on their PC, and many just discovered WordPress and they would like to play with if before getting involved with a hosting account or working on a server.
I found a blog, Techzilo, with a wonderful tutorial for installing WordPress on your [...]

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The Technology Dojo had an introduction to Wordpress class last week and I recorded the Wordpress Tour. If you are new to Wordpress and you want know if this tool is a fit for you this tour could be helpful. It is about 36 minutes long and it is the recording of a [...]

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Funny you should ask that question. I was wondering myself then I found this wonderful video from Caroline Middlebrook.
A favicon is the cute little image in the left-hand side of the menu you see on the cool kids websites.

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Wordpress is very powerful and can serve the average small business owner very well. I’ve collected a few tutorials on installing WordPress.
Local WordPress Install on Windows
Here is a video on installing WordPress to run locally on your windows machine. The sound and picture quality suck, but this is great content for Windows victims.

WordPress [...]

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I am a decent writer, and I know my limitations. I find my best work comes when I proofread my writing and then I have someone else read my copy to me. It becomes painfully clear as I want to correct the reader and insert words I know belong and remove words that aren’t needed. [...]

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