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January 26th, 2009
Wordpress is free.
I saw an article recently listing 10 free web site building tools. Most of them take a while to figure out. They won’t all let you do what you want to do. None were expandable to your own site if you ever wanted to take the next step, from “free” to “owning your [...]
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January 24th, 2009
I visited “The New and Native Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene and Greene” at the Huntington Library today. It was a rainy day, but the exhibit closes in 2 days, so this was our last chance. The rain kept the riff raff out, so it was not crowded and it was a pleasant [...]
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January 20th, 2009
Wow. Things got busy and my Wordpress blog gets forgotten. I think I’m back. I’ll try to make up for lost time. The weather has been in the 80s for the last week or so, so I may have been a bit distracted.
n the last week, I’ve also been busy with, and learned a [...]
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January 10th, 2009
This is an amazing plug in. I wish I had known about it a couple years ago. It would have saved me a bunch of time and effort. Check it out.
Quoting from Wordpress Sermons Plugin :: 4:14 evangelical christian theology blog
The Sermon Browser Wordpress Plugin allows churches to simply upload sermons to their Wordpress [...]
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January 6th, 2009
This is a great list of things that you should have on your church web site.
Quoting from 5 Features That a Church Website Shouldn’t Be Without | Web Site Design Blog
A good church website needs to be informative, visually appealing and have a bit of interaction with the visitor. After all shouldn’t your [...]
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January 2nd, 2009
If you ever have a link that says “Skip Intro”, then you need to remove the page that contains that link. There’s no question or debate about this. The ONLY time I would ever do that is if you are promoting a video game or a movie. The only time ever.
What good does it do [...]
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December 28th, 2008
I really appreciate comments. I really do. I love the interaction with people who use this site. Most of all, I love being right and crushing the opposition.
wrote a post titled Network Solutions Sucks. I must admit that I have strong feelings about Network Solutions or NetSol, as it’s also called. I am deeply [...]
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December 23rd, 2008
I have some experience with building and maintaining web sites for churches. Most of my professional life has been building them for large corporations, which is cool. It paid the bills. My heart is for church web sites though.
It just hurts to see what some of them look like out there. I am going [...]
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November 20th, 2008
This is one of those questions that will get a complicated technical formula from the web development engineers, but it’s really not that hard.
If you have to ask, then you don’t need very much.
f you are just starting out, you probably won’t have much traffic. Sorry, but it’s true. You can calculate the page files [...]
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November 19th, 2008
I’ve put up a link under my short bio over there on the right. Put up a new head shot while I was there. If you click on the button, it’ll pop up a window and you can ask me anything you want to know about small business web sites. I’ll answer it as [...]
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November 1st, 2008
So you think you need a web site for your small business. You’re right. If you don’t have one by now, you’re behind the curve. If you have one that sucks, you need to make it better.
Don’t worry, we’ll walk you through the steps to get one up and running. The overview of the process [...]
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October 15th, 2008
Don’t register your domain name with Network Solutions. Use any other registrar. Not only do they charge you 4 times what most other registrars charge, moving your domain name to another registrar is almost impossible.
We had a client who had a name registered at Network Solutions. I showed them the difference in cost and [...]
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