Winter Flew In

Winter Flew In

While I had my head down, busy in a pile of work, winter flew in. The dogwood tree in the front yard (right outside my desk window) was still full of red berries this morning. This afternoon the birds discovered them. It’s picked clean now — only the bare...
3 Reasons Jetpack Stinks

3 Reasons Jetpack Stinks

And the Only Reason You Need to Install It What is JetPack I’ll let Jetpack speak for itself here: Jetpack is a single plugin that gives you the most powerful WordPress.com features, hooking your self-hosted WordPress site to WordPress.com’s infrastructure to...
Installing a Theme in WordPress

Installing a Theme in WordPress

You finally settled on a theme — I know it’s hard to narrow down from all the choices and features! Now you need to install that theme into your WordPress installation. Don’t worry, it’s much easier than it sounds. Four quick steps and it will...
8 WordPress Theme Features to Search For

8 WordPress Theme Features to Search For

It’s important to have a visually pleasing theme: something that is nice to look at and easy to read. But underneath the appearance of the theme, there are a lot of important programming things going on that you might not realize. Here’s a list of a 8 important...
WordPress Themes & Marketplaces

WordPress Themes & Marketplaces

What is a theme? A theme is the design of your site. WordPress themes are a series of rules and templates that tells WordPress how and where to display all the the information that you put into it. Remember how I told you that all that stuff you type into the...
Let’s Get WordPress Installed

Let’s Get WordPress Installed

I’m baaaack! Hope you didn’t think I was gone for good? ; ) I was helping out at a big event on Monday — all day Monday. So, the weekend was spent getting ready and then Tuesday was spent catching up on all the stuff that was ignored for the past...
5 Steps to Owning Your Own Domain

5 Steps to Owning Your Own Domain

How to Purchase a Domain You’ve avoided all the traps — you’ve choosen your name. Now, register it and let’s get started! This slide show goes screen-by-screen into the process for buying a domain from Bluehost. Even though I’ve used...
3 Domain Name Traps to Avoid

3 Domain Name Traps to Avoid

What to consider before registering a domain name Location, location, location. If you’ve ever bought a house or watched House Hunters on HGTV you know what I mean. The value of a property is determined by its location. The value of your website lies in a strong...