I may have mentioned that my friend and client, Karen Burns, has written a book.  It’s The Amazing Adventures of Working Girl: Real-Life Career Advice You Can Actually Use.  What I may have just hinted at, but now am saying boldly, is that you should read it.  Why?  It’s funny and practical all at once.  [...]

I took a small vacation over the Fourth of July. I wanted to take advantage of all the Wi-Fi services available in the airports, libraries and coffee houses on my trip.  However I also wanted to surf safely.  It was time to renew my VPN subscription. What’s VPN?  The folks at WiTopia have a great [...]

I use HostMySite as a website host and I recommend them to many of my customers.  HostMySite sent out an email to its cusomers this week.  The email says that HostMySite has acquired Hosting.com.  The email goes on to list numerous benefits of this acquisition.  The list of benefits is filled with technical lingo.  I [...]

Don’t be shocked, but I’ve been investigating another website host.  I still adore HostMySite.  The thing is that I’m working on a project that has made me ask the question, “How would I coach a customer through a WordPress installation?” Installing WordPress involves FTP, zipped files, installing a MySQL database and altering a configuration file.  [...]

I had an interesting email from one of my clients last week.  He used the word “bombshell” in the subject line.  His website host was going out of business because of the bad economy.  He had a week to find a new host and move his site.  It was a bombshell indeed! The client has [...]

Earlier this week I was doing some CafePress coaching with one of my clients.  Things were going fine.  We went over adding images, making products and setting up her store.  Then we came to the issue of coffee cups. CafePress allows you to make custom coffee cups.  Here’s one of mine from my shop. It [...]

Am I talking about good ol’ Washington Mutual?  No.  I’m talking about something nearer and dearer to my heart – the $45 a year blog plan at HostMySite. A number of my clients have WordPress blogs that are tweaked to look like “normal” sites.  This gives them the ability to maintain the website themselves.  Part [...]

It’s been a busy week here at Perry Internet Consulting.  In addition to the website getting an updated look I also installed a new ad server for my other sites. As you may know, I publish three literary websites.  One site is on Charles Dickens.  Another website features Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Last but not [...]

A few years ago my family wanted a family website.   I volunteered to help them find an online solution.  They wanted a place to chat with one another and post photos.  My concern was making sure that my family was safe from hackers and spammers.  And as always, everyone was concerned about the budget. I [...]

This is the second part of a response to an article on the Wall Street Journal entitled How to Create a Successful Web Site For Nothing (or Almost Nothing). You can see part one of my response here. In part one I analyzed points one through three of the article. Today I’m going to take [...]