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The Case Against Ghostwriting
As I grow my portfolio of writing on the web, I see many sites that will only work with freelancers willing to write as a ghostwriter. Based on my experience, this is a terrible idea for both the...
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Important Features of Your Small Business Website
In my growing website consulting business, I have worked on sites ranging from finance blogs to construction companies. I have seen many common problems that can be easily fixed by implementing simple...
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PDP Associates
When I was approached by PDP Associates through a referral, I was told that the company wanted to convert their old static HTML site into something professional, clean, and easy to navigate. PDP...
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Willhite Grading
Michael Willhite had a website that gave customers basic information, but it was missing the professional touch that he was looking for. The old Willhite Grading was an HTML site that was not well...
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Speed Up Your WordPress Site for Free in 5 Easy Steps
Slow sites are one of the most frustrating parts of running a blog. When I started with WordPress, there was little more I knew than adding a caching plugin and GZip plugin. In the years since, I have...
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Adding Themes, Plugins, and Widgets to Your WordPress Site
If you are new to self-hosted WordPress from a managed blogging provider like WordPress.com, Blogger, or Tumblr, you may be in for a wake-up call on how web servers and programs work. Once you have...
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Add In-Content AdSense Block to Maximize Revenue
The single most profitable design change I have ever made for AdSense revenue is putting the ad right smack dab in the middle of where people are reading. Rationale I hate seeing ads as much as the...
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How to Build a Website for a Client without Content
Sometimes we are brought on to build out websites for clients who don’t want to hire us for content creation as well. While you may be just as much of a rock star writer as you are website designer, it...
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Securing WordPress and the Rest of Your Digital Life
It seems that almost every week we read about something bad caused by hackers in the news. It used to be that sites were being taken down by DDoS attacks, but things have escalated. Hackers are no...
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What to Do When Your Email Gets Hacked
It seems like hardly a week goes by these days without someone I know sharing that their email account was hacked. Whether you are on Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, or any other mail platform, there are bad...
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How to Become a B-List Blogger
This year at Ignite FinCon in New Orleans, I shared that I am not quite an A-List blogger, but I’m a proud member of the B-List. How to Become a B-List Blogger is a post from: Narrow Bridge Media The...
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Improve Your WordPress Email Delivery with Mandrill
As a WordPress site owner, you may use your site to send emails for a variety of reasons. Whether your site is running a contact form, product sales, or event signups, it is important that your emails...
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SLR Cameras Take Great Pictures!
We recently invested in a D-SLR camera, which stands for digital single lens reflex. SLR cameras are the big ones that you see people carry around with the giant lens on the front. I am super excited...
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Thoughts at Thirty
I woke up this morning at 2:00am because I had to go to the bathroom. When I rolled over and looked at the clock, I realized that the first thing I had to do in my 4th decade of life was waking up...
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HWChet – The Heebs With Chutspa
Back in college, I decided that there was not enough Jewish Hip Hop (aka Heeb Hop) music, so I joined forced with a friend and started a rap group. While the website doesn’t exist anymore, I wanted to...
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D’var Torah – Rosh Hasahana 2015
When I started thinking about what to say in a d’var Torah for Rosh Hashana, my first thought was to read the Torah portion. When I was reading, though, I had another question come to mind. Why are we...
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Using Amazon SES to Send Transactional Email for Free
With the big news that Mandrill is dropping its free plan, I decided it is time to move on and find a new transactional email service. While it looks like there are a handful of competitors offering a...
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Create a Binge Reading Archive Page on Your WordPress Site
My amazing client and friend Paula Pant, owner of Afford Anything, wanted to give her readers an option to see all posts from the start of her site on one page. She calls it a “binge” reading...
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TBEX and My Surprisingly Awesome Trip to Alabama
On May 2nd, I hopped on a plane to Huntsville, Alabama on a journey to my 40th state. I would spend eight days in The Heart of Dixie. My time would be split between the TBEX conference in Huntsville...
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The Craziest 72 Hours of My Life: Fires and Babies
It started at 12:30am. I woke to the sound of pounding, far louder than any sound my two-year-old would make in the middle of the night. I jumped from bed and as I lumbered to the front door the knocks...
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