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Plinky is part of the vast stable of web service offerings by Automattic, and it is not to be overlooked. Plinky is a blogging prompt tool, aimed at getting bloggers’ creative juices flowing by giving a short prompt in the form of a sentence, a question or a challenge. You then answer the prompt and [...]
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Top 10 Reasons for a business Blog
In the previous blog post we stated the importance of the business blog. Knowing about the business blog is a good starting point, now we’ll take a look at the uses of the business blog to promote and grow your business. 1. Frequently Asked Questions Your blog can be utilized as a customer service and [...]
Custom Post Types in WordPress 3.0
You can create a custom post type for any manner of content you need. Expand your mind, and think podcasts, video, property listings, gallery and products as different structured and defined content types.
Who is Automattic?
Automattic is the parent company behind Wordpress.com, a site that offers hassle-free blogs based on the open source WordPress.org project.
8 Ways to make money with WPMU
Wordpress MU allows you to run limitless blogs and websites with one single install of Wordpress. Setting up and maintaining such a large ecosystem of blogs is time consuming and expensive. It is only natural that you’d want to make this investment work for you and make some money.
Top 10 Ideas to Grow your Business online
1. Blogging Your blog is your customer service desk on the Web. Business blogging has exploded in recent years as a low cost avenue for small businesses to communicate with their customers and initiate conversation with their intended markets. With blogging, Small Business owners can engage with their customers and help tailor their services and [...]
Lightspeed Redesign Evaluation – Part 6: Home Page
The Home page is clear and crisp and overall I like the design. There are possibilities to free up some white space as mentioned in my previous blog entry (Lightspeed Redesign Evaluation – Part 1) but it almost seems unnecessary. When comparing the different designs for the Home page, I prefer Home 1. Here’s why: [...]
Lightspeed Redesign Evaluation – Part 5: Portfolio
Portfolio List page On the Portfolio page, as mentioned in the blog post on Typography and Colour use, I might suggest adding a bit more whitespace between the frames, as it feels a bit cluttered. The content should comprise little write-ups of the projects or clients on display in the portfolio and highlight some of [...]
LightSpeed Redesign Evaluation – Part 4: Careers
Careers – Intro The action buttons are nicely done in orange, but also reside at the bottom of the page, needing the user to scroll down to see them. This might be a good thing if the intent is to only attract ardent and thorough applicants who would read the entire page and scroll down, [...]
Lightspeed Redesign Evaluation – Part 3: Features
Features – Intro This page is clear, but perhaps the use of a picture, cropping the first text box to the right might liven it up. Suggested Content: For the Intro paragraph in this area (Note: For the text here you want to get at the heart of your business.) Lightspeed prides itself on developing [...]
