October 2013

  • Adding Pages to Your WP Site

    Adding Pages to Your WP Site

    More of the King, a specialty publisher whose website we built a few years ago, got inspired to add a couple of new pages to their website. It’s a WordPress website, the site owner is intrepid, so why not? You can do it, too. Adding a page in WordPress is easy. From the dashboard or…

  • What’s New with Google Analytics

    What’s New with Google Analytics

    I’ve been preparing third quarter Google Analytics reports for clients — and yes, I’m usually through by now, but the joint has been jumping over here, so I have a few more to finish up. So I’m racing along trying to be as efficient as possible, and there it is: a completely new dashboard at…

  • Adding News at Your Website

    Adding News at Your Website

    You have a blog, right? You can always name it News and use it to share things you want your visitors to know. But sometimes you want to showcase your news on the homepage. There are many good ways to do this. Here are a few used at sites we’re working on right now. Both…

  • Make Your Newsletter Tweetable

    Make Your Newsletter Tweetable

    When you’ve gone to all the trouble to create a terrific email newsletter, you want to encourage people to share it. We’re going to look at how you can do this if you use MailChimp; your preferred email solution will probably have similar options. MailChimp (a free/ low cost email marketing tool we love) offers…

  • Blog? Forum? …A Community Page!

    Blog? Forum? …A Community Page!

    We’re working on a new website for a community action organization. Among the pages they know they want is something they’re thinking of as a community page. A page where people could, well, do the stuff they might do if they were to come into the office: get news about the organization, share stories, leave…

  • Blippex: Sort of a Search Engine

    Blippex: Sort of a Search Engine

    Blippex, the new search engine from Germany, greets visitors with “Ask not what your search engine can do for you; ask what you can do for your search engine.” This is fitting, because Blippex can’t do much for you at this point. They’re hoping to follow in the footsteps of Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopedia which…