New Improved StudioPress Genesis Information and Support Resource Search Engine

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Today I added to the website the Google Custom Search Engine I created a few weeks ago to be able to search intensively for support resources related to StudioPress’ Genesis Framework and child themes.  As you can guess the search uses Google’s platform. The reason for the new search is as StudioPress’ Genesis has developed [...]

How to use a WordPress website plus the new media and image galleries of WP 3.5

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This post includes a good video review of what is new in WordPress 3.5, but also includes videos showing how easy it is to use the standard WordPress website content management features we have known and loved for more than a few years. For those of us that are familiar with WordPress based websites, using [...]

The 5 Best Free Genesis Child Themes of 2012

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Presented here are the five best free Genesis child themes I have found at the close of 2012. I wanted to explore what was available and what are some “in-the-wild” innovations. What I found is some free child themes are the equal or better of some of StudioPress’ own offerings or the StudioPress Community themes. It was a very pleasant surprise to find these free theme “treasures”. I hope that if you have any favorite free Genesis child themes you will add them in the comments.

Help, BluDomain transferred my site and now my WordPress doesn’t work

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Recently a BluDomain site owner asked for help because their WordPress based splash page, their WordPress blog and other content pages accompanying their BluDomain template were no longer working. Like many he used WordPress to enhance his search enging ppresence and market his services to prospective clients.  So the WordPress site elements were a  very [...]

WordPress websites for photographers, even sites with strong SEO, can also be elegant and beautiful

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I want to introduce a new, clean, minimalist site recently completed for a photographer Dennis Grimes of College Station Texas. His new website fully follows Google’s best practice advice for mobile sites, is HTML5 and CSS3 feature ready, plus the best SEO capabilities. Take a look – One of the difficult issues to work with [...]

How to transfer your domain name from BluDomain, or others, to yourself.

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Almost daily I am working with a website owner whose domain name is owned by someone else.  This means that the website’s and the business owner’s internet business identity and a main channel of their internet based communication is out of their control. I come across a lot of these situations with BluDomain website owners [...]

The full business cost of internet coupon offerings like Groupon and LivingSocial

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As a consumer you have to love some of the Groupon, LivingSocial, Google Deals and other program coupons you can receive in your email every day. But having studied the small business costing of old couponing methods (newspapers, fliers and direct mail) I have wondered what the true total costs were and if they made [...]

6 Essential tools you need installed on your PC to make your WordPress blog/website rock

6 essential WordPress website tools you need to install and use

This is a quick list of the tools I use everyday, even on simple setup installations of WordPress to make it look as good and work as well as possible. I recommend that even you are just setting up only one WordPress blog or website, even if only for your personal use, you need to [...]

Content ideas for your web/blogsite and better search engine rankings

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Web/blogsites can deliver you the highest Google rankings and traffic for a very low cost. While reinforcing your reputation and profitable social marketing efforts. If you are in real estate our WordPress based blogsites make it easy to feature your listings as posts (helping to keep your listing sellers happy too), but more variety is [...]

Don’t know what to blog about? Blog about nothing!

Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza hit upon the idea of a "show about nothing"

It is okay to blog “about nothing”. As long as you have, say 100-200 words with at least some of them being your marketing keywords and an image or two.  A post like that, “about nothing”, will still keep your content updated, A blog post “about nothing” will still present your site and product as [...]