Wordpress is a fantastic blogging platform, and as I showed you yesterday, it can be a great CMS platform too. Wordpress works great as it is, but one of its greatest assets is how extendable it is. There are hundreds of great plugins for Wordpress, but these are the 12 most useful in my opinion to anyone building an online business:
Askimet
Coming as standard with recent versions of Wordpress, you simply need to enable it from the plugins page. You’ll also need a Wordpress API key which you …

Wordpress is my favorite blogging platform, and until fairly recently that’s all I thought it was, but these days I build entire websites using the Wordpress platform. Whether it’s a simple static brochure site, a ’sales letter’ product site, a review sites or anything else, Wordpress is so versitile that it can be used for just about anything. There are many advantages to using Wordpress over a more traditional approach to creating sites – it’s easy to setup, even for non-techies, you can maintain your site from anywhere, …

If you’re new to blogging, or Internet Marketing, you may have heard the term RSS bandied about but not really understood what is means or why you ought to be using it. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a way of syndicating your content via an XML feed, or subscribing to feeds from other blogs and sites. By subscribing to a feed you can consume the content without actually visiting the site, either through an online service like Google Reader, or in an offline RSS client …

This is a question I get asked all the time, and since I’m in the process of setting up this new site it seemed like an ideal case study to show you how to do it properly.
Many times I have a client who wants to register more than one domain, and have them all point to the same site. Often done to protect the domain from possible abuse (hijacking by someone else taking a very similar domain to ’steal’ your traffic) or simply to catch mis-typed type-in traffic (where …

One of my primary motivations for starting this blog was to share some of my techniques and favorite tools for creating websites. Recently I’ve been building almost every site in Wordpress, whether it be blog based or not. In a future post, I’ll give my ‘no brainer’ method for quickly setting up a CMS style site in Wordpress, but sometimes you need to break out the HTML editor and get your hands dirty!
I’m a big fan of Dreamweaver and Photoshop and they form the cornerstone of my studio, …