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Build A Website With Wordpress, Part 4

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 needs. [...]

Build A Website With Wordpress, Part 3

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 for [...]

Build A Website With Wordpress, Part 2

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 [...]

Choosing Social Sites

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 [...]

Build A Website With Wordpress, Part 1

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 [...]