Jun 16, 2009 Posted by Judith

7-Minute SEO Guide

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has always, to me, been a combo of common sense and simple good writing principles. I was naturally SEO’ing sites back in the day before this term was even coined! Folks are always asking me how what they can do to SEO themselves. That’s when I suggest they dump their static HTML site and move over to WordPress and use it as a CMS (Content Management System)... read more

Jun 10, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Top 5 WordPress Resources

With WordPress gaining in popularity, there are many out there eager to learn all they can. I get emails several times each and every day asking where I would recommend WordPress newbies can start to read and learn. And I love that!! Getting contacted by those who actually want to make the effort to read and learn makes me want to do a happy dance! The best resource of all is WordPress.org and areas... read more

Jun 4, 2009 Posted by Judith

NewsPress for WordPress Premium Theme

NewsPress is a most excellent Premium WordPress Theme for those sites that are true information disseminators. Giving you a great combo of top page highlights and features with building in sponsor and advertising blocks to help monetize your efforts. With a clean magazine-style layout, you have the opportunity to reflect that you in fact have fresh new information a click away. The sophistication of the... read more

Jun 3, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Visual and HTML Tabs

When folks start out on WordPress they are by default on the VISUAL tab in the editor for pages and posts. Inevitably the question comes up is why is the HTML tab there and why would one use it? The Visual tab is WordPress’ WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. It allows those who don’t know code to be able to visually layout their post without having to monkey around with knowing... read more

May 28, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress WP Remix CMS Premium Theme

While WordPress cut its teeth on being the preferred platform for Blogging, several years ago smarties (like yours truly) realized that WordPress easily could transition into a CMS platform. Content Management Systems allow site owners to have total control of their site without having to know all the code and technicalities that Web Developers know. WP Remix is a perfect WordPress CMS Solution due to... read more

May 27, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: SEO Permalinks

The default URLs or Permalinks created by WordPress are not user or search engine friendly. There all kinds of ways to tweak your Permalink structure to suite your needs, you can read all about Permalinks here. For example the WordPress default Permalink looks something like this: http://www.theistudio.com/muse/?p=123 So here’s a quick and easy tip to solve both of these issues. When in WordPress,... read more

May 21, 2009 Posted by Judith

Lifestyle Premium WordPress Theme

Lifestyle is a Premium WordPress Theme that is one of my personal favorites and one that many of my clients gravitate to as well. Not only is it sharp looking, the features and functionality that are built in make creating a contemporary presentation with all the bells and whistles a snap! The Lifestyle Theme includes all the features that are important to having an effective and interactive Web... read more

May 14, 2009 Posted by Judith

Flexx Premium WordPress Theme

Once you look into this theme you’ll understand why it is called the “Mega WP Blog Theme” And I have to agree it is “One of the most powerful, but easy to use blog themes on the planet”! Check out the features and options:15 styles/colors to choose from. Text header option – keep our rotating images script but include a text overlay of your blog title and tagline ... read more

May 13, 2009 Posted by Judith

WordPress How To: Tired of Comment Spam?

WordPress comes with a good anti-spam plugin, Akismet that requires an API key and can be a bit much to implement for the average user. In lieu of this, why not try this great plugin that I have used on all my WordPress sites for years? Because of this plugin I have had zero, zilcho, nada comment spam! WP-SpamFree WordPress Spam Plugin – Powerful Anti-Spam Protection! What’s interesting is... read more

May 12, 2009 Posted by Judith

SEO Bullseye Marketing

Let’s see here… according to Google’s last index figure when they used to display that information, Google indexed 8,058,044,651 Web pages! This was the last figured displayed before they decided to no longer show their index count in October/2005! So it is pretty easy to understand that the number of sites and pages have grown exponentially. Not all are quality, not all are of interest... read more