Archive for the ‘Site Planning’ Category
5 Essential Security Habits to Protect Your Website
September 21st, 2009Imagine waking up in the morning and typing in your website’s URL only to find this atrocity it its place…
What would your reaction be? Wide-eyed disbelief? Exclaimed profanities? Questioning the meaning of the word “owned” in this context? Let’s hope you never have to find out. Better yet, let’s make [...]
New Domain Naming Trick from 45n5
November 9th, 2007This is the most solid domain naming tip I’ve heard. Mark from 45n5 has revealed his domain name-finding method via online video. (Basic instructions typed below video).
1. Go to Google’s Keyword Tool and enter your niche’s keywords.
2. Scroll down and find “Download all keywords” (choose text or csv)
3. Copy and Paste keywords into bulk pricing [...]
Stuck Between a Bank and a Hard Place
November 9th, 2007Yesterday, I attempted to make a payment on my student loan online. But the Sallie Mae site wanted me to pay using information from an actual check (routing number + account number), not a check card number.
I’m out of checks, except for one, but the routing number was illegible. So I signed onto my bank’s [...]
Get Smart: Play to the Intelligence of Your Audience
September 12th, 2007In an earlier post, I’ve shared an improv technique and how it relates to online marketing. Today, I have another nugget of improv wisdom to pass along. This one comes from the late improv guru, Del Close: “Play to the top of your intelligence.”
Improvisers, especially when they’re starting out, have a tendency to not trust [...]
What Not to Wear: 7 Web Design Mistakes to Avoid
August 21st, 2007On the show What Not to Wear, style gurus Stacy London and Clinton Kelly take people from drab to fab during a one week fashion makeover in New York City.
If you think this is purely vain, then you haven’t watched the show. Most of the people who are chosen for a makeover have some internal [...]
Waiting for the Theme Viewer to Change
July 18th, 2007Wordpress is finally undergoing the gargantuan task of eliminating sponsored themes from its Theme Viewer.
Unfortunately, the site is all glitchy in the process. I went to the site to go theme-hunting last night only to find that the site would not filter any of my carefully selected variables (2 column, white, widget-ready).
I will give them [...]
