August 17th, 2010 by Liz Gallagher
To keep your readers interested, it’s important to mix things up on your blog. In additional to text and photos, videos are a great way to add some excitement to your blog. It can be your own video or one that you’ve found on the Internet. YouTube is a fabulous place to find videos on just about any topic. Today, I’ve chosen to share with you a YouTube video on How to Embed YouTube videos in your WordPress Blog.
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June 15th, 2010 by Liz Gallagher
I saw a tweet this week asking if anyone knew of a WordPress website that didn’t look “bloggy.” I thought that was a strange question, especially since custom designed WordPress sites are what we do best! So I tweeted back with a link to my portfolio but that question has been on my mind ever since.
Most CMS software is ugly right out of the box. Simple. Boring. And just plain ugly. Do people really think that they are stuck with the look & feel of their CMS software right out of the box?
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May 15th, 2010 by Liz Gallagher
WordPress offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to organizing your blog posts. You create blog categories and tags on the fly as you write each article. Other than having to put every article into a category (and it defaults to the “Uncategorized” category if you forget to select one!) there really are no hard and fast rules. You can put the same article into multiple categories and create as many tags as you want to further classify the content. When you first start out, this all seems great. But after you’ve been blogging for a while, adding more and more categories with each post , you’ll notice that your blog eventually becomes cluttered and disorganized. It’s hard to find older articles because you can’t remember which category you placed them in and the same articles keep appearing over and over because you put them in too many places.
The worst part is all of this duplication of copy can actually cause you to be penalized in Google. Read more… »
May 11th, 2010 by Liz Gallagher
You may have noticed a 2 month gap between this post and the last one. Wish I could say I was on an extended vacation, but I wasn’t. And I haven’t given up on blogging either. The reason I stopped blogging 2 months ago, is that I came to the realization that I was not happy with my current Content Management System and it was time to move on. Since I was blogging on a weekly basis for about 9 months, that meant not only moving my web site but also moving all of the blog articles as well. The more I blogged, the more pages I had to move, so I stopped.
The process was more painful than I thought and so this is why my first post back is to warn you – Be Picky. Be Well Informed. Choose your blogging software wisely.
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February 24th, 2010 by Liz Gallagher
As I work on more & more content management systems, I’ve come to realize that keeping your CMS up-to-date and in good working order is critical to a properly functioning web site. A nice feature on most content management systems is that the admin program warns you when the core program or any installed modules require updating. Sometimes these are minor updates to improve features and other times these are major updates that affect the security of your web site.
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