From the category archives:

How-To

Build A Website With WordPress, Part 4

July 11, 2008

Last week we completed our discussion of plugins and we are nearly ready to start to create great content and launch our WordPress website. But there is one major consideration left to deal with; look and feel. Luckily, there are plenty of free themes available for download that can be further modified to meet your [...]

Read the full post →

Build A Website With WordPress, Part 3

July 3, 2008

When I left off last week, we had just covered my “must-have” WordPress plugins and I promised a list of favorites for adding more functionality to your website. The following are presented in alphabetical order as I look at what is installed on this site but I’ll add a few niche plugins at the end [...]

Read the full post →

Build A Website With WordPress, Part 2

June 25, 2008

When I left off on my first post about building a website with WordPress, I had just installed and slightly configured the software. The next consideration is what features you will need which are extended using plug-ins. WordPress ships with two plug-ins, the must-have SPAM filtering solution Akismet and the frivolous Hello Dolly (which posts [...]

Read the full post →

Choosing Social Sites

June 24, 2008

During my seminars in Napa and Sonoma last April I covered a number of social sites but really didn’t make recommendations on which of these wineries should choose for their online activities. In setting up a couple of new clients recently I’ve looked at the long list of sites I’ve used and pared it down [...]

Read the full post →

Twitter and Wine Marketing

June 19, 2008

A post over at Mike Duffy’s Winery Website Report blog reminded me to post about the popular Twitter micro-blogging-messaging service and how it relates to wine marketing. For some wine bloggers, Twitter remains somewhat of an enigma; super popular with tech bloggers, the service has spawned a growing wine community over the past year or [...]

Read the full post →

Build A Website With WordPress, Part 1

June 17, 2008

WordPress has been the standard-bearer in blogging software for some time but over the past year this open source content management system (CMS) has really come into it’s own as a viable tool to build full websites. This site, for example, is totally built using this free software and I am recommending it’s use increasingly [...]

Read the full post →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →