September 5, 2012 – 4:45 am
Before you check out your next WordPress shopping cart or ecommerce WordPress Plugin, you need to read this. In April 2011, Smashing Magazine published “Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout Design” in their UX (User Experience) column exploring what they called the “harsh reality” of e-commerce websites. According to recent e-commerce studies, at least 59.8% of […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress Tips, WordPress News, Web Design, WordPress Plugins
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April 26, 2012 – 12:01 pm
As part of my project to bring WordPress into colleges nationally, I did a quick survey of how many books have been published about WordPress. I was asked by several major publishers to publish the first book in English on WordPress but had to decline due to my traveling schedule and work load, so it’s […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Tips
| Tags: books, books about wordpress, books on wordpress, how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress advice, wordpress books, wordpress codex, wordpress design, wordpress development, wordpress help, WordPress Plugins, wordpress techniques, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, wordpress writing |
December 27, 2008 – 4:14 am
By DB Ferguson of the No Fact Zone If you’re building a fandom blog to create a cash revenue stream, you’re better off getting a second job or setting up an Etsy account. Money can be made, but that should not be a priority for you when it comes to being a fandom blogger. As […]
By Lorelle VanFossen
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Posted in Blogging Tips
| Tags: ads, advertising, Blogging Tips, celeb blogs, celebrities, celebs, fan blogs, fan-based blog, how to create a fan-based blog, monetizing, money |
February 25, 2007 – 8:09 am
There are a lot of ways you can add ads to your WordPress blog. As part of my month long series on WordPress Plugins, I thought I’d take a glimpse into WordPress Plugins that help you monetize your WordPress blog. WordPress Plugins that add ads to your blogs may assign advertising blocks to specific areas, […]
September 11, 2006 – 4:14 am
456 Berea Street’s “10 Things Businesses Should Know Before Building a Website” is extremely helpful when considering how to build a website for a business. It begins by understanding that most businesses don’t understand the web, and then is complicated by the fact that most web designers today don’t understand the web. It’s perfectly understandable […]
September 5, 2006 – 4:05 am
Joanna Tidball pointed me to some news stories on Google attempts to prevent the use of “google” as a generic and general reference for searching the Internet. According to The Independent: In June, Google won a place in the Oxford English Dictionary, while “to google”, with a lower case “g”, was included last month in […]
September 5, 2006 – 3:55 am
Over the past year, I’ve written a lot about search engines. In many ways, they are the holy grail, the impossible dream, and the unsolved mystery. We are totally dependent upon them. In order to find anything on the web, we must go through a portal of a search engine. It is the epitome of […]
Heard the term “landing page” or “landing site” in relationship with e-Commerce and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? It is the page people arrive on your site from a search engine. If you are searching for “wordpress plugins” in a search engine, it will call up a list of results. Click on one of those results […]
Taking a few notes from a recent article I wrote on Usability Isn’t Expensive. It’s Practical. Usability is Useful., Abhijit Nadgouda @ iface decided to take his WordPress.com blog, a blog with no control over the look of the WordPress Theme or any core programming files, WordPress Plugins, or templates, and put into practice what […]
January 15, 2006 – 7:11 am
Search engine optimization doesn’t cost, but not paying attention to search engine optimization costs you plenty. The following are tips, techniques, and the tools you need to create a search engine friendly website or blog. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the technique of fixing code, writing keywords, and making your site an open door to […]
January 4, 2006 – 9:02 pm
Blogshares is an interesting and fun way of playing the stock market with blogs. You can sign up your blog (put your blog on the market) and watch as the traffic and stock trades influence the value of your blog. While this is just in fun, it has also turned into a successful money-making endeavor […]
December 28, 2005 – 9:40 am
Michael Wender’s article on “Embedding WordPress into OS Commerce” is a great guide for those using WordPress for marketing and selling products online. OS Commerce is open source online shopping e-commerce available for free. You can set up your own store or mall, using WordPress, within OS Commerce as it works with PHP and MySQL, […]
September 16, 2005 – 5:45 pm
Site Directory Feeds Full Site Feed WordPress News Category Feed WordPress Tips Category Feed Blog Babble Category Feed Web Wise Category Feed Comments Only TechCrunch: Review of Online, Web-based Feed Readers Site Search Tag List The following are the most commonly used keywords and phrases to search this site. Click on the tag to generate […]
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