I’m really happy when people leave comments on my blog.  And I always mean to reply, but sometimes I get busy.  Pat Flynn reminds us why it’s important to respond to comments in 5 Reasons Why You Should Respond to Every Comment. Share this:

I’ve been a big fan of the X-Cart shopping cart over the years.  However a recent experience has changed my mind.  One of my customers has an existing X-Cart installation.  We needed to move  the cart to a new website host.   We also wanted to make some modifications to the cart to make it work [...]

WordPress 3.0 has recently been released.  It has new features that will allow publishers to customize blog templates like never before.  Very exciting!  I’ll post more once I’ve taken it for a spin. Share this:

Are you planning a vacation this summer, but would like to keep your blog running while you’re away?  No worries.  WordPress allows you to schedule publishing dates for posts in advance. The first step is to log into your dashboard and write a post.  Once it’s ready then look at the publishing area to the [...]

I’ve often written about the importance of renewing domain names.  Domain names are registered by the website owner and there’s an annual registration fee.  Once that fee runs out, then another party can register that name. The subject came up recently in the news. Brian McCrary was a disgruntled man.  He’s been caught speeding by [...]

I just received some exciting news!  Friend and client, Whitney Keyes, is auditioning to be the host of a new show on Oprah’s network.   If Whitney wins she’ll be the host of her own talk show. Whitney would make a great host because she’s so approachable.  Don’t get me wrong.  She’s business savvy, incredibly smart [...]

Heather Armstrong’s blog dooce.com is very popular.  How popular is it?  In 2008 ABC estimated that Heather earned over $40,000 per month from her blog.  Per month! She has over 1,500,000 Twitter followers!   That much social media pull can be very useful.  Very useful indeed,  if you have a brand new washing machine that doesn’t [...]

Check out the new website that I designed and developed for Small Building Hardware.  Actually I should say helped design and develop.  It turns out that Scott, the website owner, is almost as handy with a keyboard as he is with a hammer. The site features a built-in blog, customized buttons in the sidebar and [...]