10 WordPress Plugins That Will Help your Search Engine Optimization

Organic website traffic on your website is what you want. If you don’t know that, get it through your thick skull!   If you are writing blogs today or maintaining a website that runs on WordPress, you are probably wondering what you can do to help in your website (or blogs) search engine optimization.  Search […]

Coded New Search Engine

Today, we finished coding a new custom search engine for www.MacMakeup.net.  We started with some basic infrastructure backend that allows users to properly search through the database tables for a few things.  Main problem was that the standard search built into WordPress, wouldn’t touch the custom built tables. We ran into the issue when the […]

Page Rank Explained

What is PageRank? PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, […]

How to Pick a Good Website Designer (page2)

How to Pick a Good Website Designer? (page 2 of 2) You would like to find a good website designer?  We all wish to earn huge amount of money without making much effort. If done correctly, the “e-business” or “online” world has provided most of us this opportunity to put forth a generous effort and […]

11 Best WordPress SEO Tips (expanded)

WordPress is one of the best open “opensource” content managed systems around. The main reason that I like WordPress is that WordPress is highly configurable if you know what you’re doing. What is SEO? First of all, let’s talk about what SEO is and what it means: Search engine optimization (-SEO-) is the process of […]

How to Create an .htaccess File

How to Create an .htaccess File Here’s how to create a text file suitable for an .htaccess file: Open up any text editor application on your computer. We recommend that you use Notepad (Windows), Textpad, SimpleText (Macintosh), or Emacs (Linux / UNIX). Save the file in a place where you can located it as .htaccess […]

Let’s talk about Content Management Systems!

Let’s talk about Content Management Systems! While we will discuss “website content management systems” (WCMS), there are a few types of content management systems: Enterprise CMS (ECMS) Web CMS (WCMS, we will discuss this one today) Document management system (DMS) Mobile CMS Component CMS Media content management system A (W)ebsite (C)ontent (M)anagement system (WCMS) is […]

Changing your Default Media Settings

If you prefer to set your own default image dimensions, you can do so from the Media Settings menu. This short tutorial walks you through the process.

Widgets Overview

This short video introduces you to adding and managing widgets on your WordPress.com blog.

Adding New Links to Your Sidebar

Adding links to your blogroll doesn’t do anything for your readers unless you display them on your blog. So make sure to add the Links Widget.

Uploading Images into Your Website

Photos are a great way to enhance your website blog. We love photos and are always posting them to our blogs. Uploading Images You can upload the following image types to yourwebsite blog using the Add an Image icon: .jpg/.jpeg .gif .png Note: To only upload an image to your blog’s Media Library (and not […]

Children and Blogging

According to WiredSafety.org, over 6 million underage children write blogs with or without their parents’ knowledge. Blogging is particularly popular among children who see their parents blogging either professionally or personally. Should parents allow their children to blog? How can parents ensure their children are blogging in a safe manner? What’s all the Fuss About? […]