I recently started using the Nextgen Gallery on a project I just completed at exquisitecutandfashion.com. If you haven’t used Nextgen before, it’s an excellent image organizer that let’s you do things like automatic thumbnails, gallery metadata, and more. Have a look at some samples to get a better idea.
I have come to love Nextgen [...]
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Easy Integration of a Flash Image Gallery into your Wordpress web site
Dead easy Integration of Paypal with Cforms in 10 minutes
I found a neat trick to integrate Cforms with Paypal. It let’s you take info of any kind on your Wordpress website using a form you design, and then have the buyer forwarded to Paypal for payment completion once they submit the form (which is sent to you via email). The trick is to use [...]
Expert Analysis: Posts vs Pages and When to use which (and when not to)
I’m writing this post for a client I have just started working with in the hopes that it clears up some of the mystery around this topic and perhaps you will also learn a thing or two from my 2+ years of working with Wordpress.
If you spent any time at all with Wordpress, you eventually [...]
5 reasons a single page web site is better for your SEO ranking
Out of the blue, I was contacted today by a local business owner seeking Wordpress theme customization from a theme they purchased on Themeforest (by the way, read about how I was able to provide everything the client wanted in my other blog post) At first, I thought someone referred them to me, but after [...]
10 Tips for Efficient, Quick, and SEO friendly Blogging
About 7 minutes. That’s all the time I took to write this blog post. I didn’t login to the Wordpress admin pages, and I didn’t visit my blog to post this blog entry. How did I do it? Read on for more.
Tip #1: Write about anything. You think you need to write about something [...]
Using Get Post Image Plugin to optionally show an image on your home page
Get Post Image is a plugin I recently found that let’s you you place an image from a post into your home page to entice visitors to read your post. I found a trick to OPTIONALLY show an image if it’s found, and not show one if it isn’t. I used the PHP command “strpos” [...]
Tip to all Web Designers – Follow-up Phone calls and Keeping your Promises
I just got off a call with a potential client that asked me for help. They initially contacted me via email (I have no idea how they found me and will post in the near future about that) and I replied back to the site owner with a quote and time estimate.
I then did [...]
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