Easy Online Image Resize

Sometimes my clients need an easy way to modify the size of their digital photos in order to use our Content Management System, Wordpress. The easiest way to do this is to use the website Resizr.
Once at the website, click “browse” and choose an image from your computer just like when we were adding one […]

Categorized in General, Web Design, Word Press, Client Goodies

Make a Favicon for your site

A Favicon is that pretty little graphic in the address bar of your browser that shows up for some sites. For example, head on over to my client’s site Cochrane Insurance.com to see it in action. It’s pretty easy to complete this task on the Mac. First, head over to Steve Cooley’s instructional page. Download […]

Categorized in General, Web Design

Writing a Great Google Ad Campaign

It all starts with filling out a few simple boxes:
- Headline
- Description Line 1
- Description Line 2
- Display URL
- Destination URL
Let’s start off with the Ad Headline. This will be what your user sees first, and what has to grab their attention immediately. On my bag of Green Tea I was drinking earlier, I noticed […]

Categorized in General, Pay Per Click Advertising

Defining a Web Presence

In the infancy of the web, people would build websites and tell people to go to them. Then search engine rankings became important, as people wanted their sites to be found. The idea of a “site” should be left back in the early days. Now what you need to gain clients is a successful Web […]

Categorized in General, Online Marketing

The Basics of Search Engine Optimization

There are a few keys rules to follow when you are looking to build a website that will perform well on search engines. The first and most important is to build your site with the correct architecture. This means having your Title tags populate with relevant data (when building a dynamic site, which is all […]

Categorized in General, Search Engine Optimization

Limit number of posts

To limit the number of posts on a certain page, follow these instructions
In your template file’s index.php, right above the line “ “, insert this code:

where showposts equals the number of pages you wish to post.

Categorized in General, Word Press

CSS Layout Generators

Getting a website to look right across multiple browsers seems to often be a pain. If the site design will allow for it, I suggest beginning with a template you know will work well across multiple browsers, thus alleviating the need to trouble shoot once you have already built the site.

Categorized in General, CSS