Choosing a WordPress Theme

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There are so many WordPress themes available, how do you choose the right one? It’s easy to get taken in by pretty looks, but before you make a choice — especially if you’re laying out money for a “premium” WordPress theme — consider what it is you need the theme to do and how you want the [...]

Color Your Website With These Seven Tools

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One of the hardest aspects of creating a website is selecting the colors to use. Often you’ll start with a logo or a photograph that is the jumping off point for the color scheme. But where do you go from there? This can be a real quandary. Thankfully, the web abounds with tools that can [...]

Why Your Business Needs a Website

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With all the hype about social media these days, many businesses are neglecting their websites and focusing their marketing efforts solely on their Facebook and Twitter accounts. Some new businesses don’t even have websites. These business owners are counting on the popularity of social media to carry their message(s) to their customers. And, let’s face [...]

Sometimes WordPress.com is "Just Right"

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I’ve just completed a new website for an author who wanted to promote her book, “A Piece of Her Heart.” Although the author wanted to be able to add new content to the site and to start a blog, she didn’t want to worry about WordPress upgrades, plugin upgrades, security, etc. — all the issues [...]

LinkedIn Goes Social

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LinkedIn is becoming more social every day. Your LinkedIn profile no longer has to be “static” — in fact, if you have a blog or a Twitter account it shouldn’t be. You can integrate both with LinkedIn, and your tweets and links to your latest blog postings will appear on your LinkedIn profile. In addition, [...]