Blogging for your business

Recently I looked at my client list and realized that I now have quite a few whose sites include a blog.  Some of them update the blog on a regular basis and send out an email to all their subscribers to let them know there’s something new to read.  Others put a new post up [...]

NextGen Gallery: The Missing Manual

UPDATE: January 15, 2013- Hello everybody, I can’t believe how popular this post has gotten! In light of this, and in NextGEN’s acquisition by Photocrati I have installed the latest version of NextGEN on this site and am in the process of putting together a new client gallery with it. I am hoping to have [...]

New Site(s) Launch: Lovejoy Designs.net

When Katharine Navins, Tallow Studio’s owner needed a WordPress developer to bring her site design for Lovejoy Designs to fruition, she came to Jenn Mears Web Design with the page concepts and site architecture wonderfully laid out with a great eye towards color and balance. Utilizing a theme called Silver Dreams, I was able to [...]

A Rough Guide to Business Blogging

Author’s note: This is not the stuff that I do, but it’s what I should do. 5 Reasons to have a blog for your business 1. It’s environmentally friendly. Unless you are running a blog about your helicopter hunting/timber logging business venture. But not only is it green for the environment, it’s green for you. [...]

Site Launch: Michael McCarthy Law

Michael McCarthy Law has been in development for a while now and readers will soon find that it was worth the wait! Meant to be much more than a simple “shingle site” for a Personal Injury and Estate Handling firm, MML is aimed at educating both current and potential clients, an approach that more and [...]

A Guide to Web Color-

-right in your own (WordPress) backyard! I was ready to do a search for a good online hexadecimal color guide for a client, when I realized that they have one right there in the Editing window!

Getting Your Company Listed with Bing.com

Bing.com is a new search engine that is being touted as the next big thing, at least that’s what Microsoft is hoping. They’ve pumped metric tons of money into marketing it as Google’s new competitor, but the jury still seems to be deliberating about that. Still, as Bing buzz builds, it couldn’t hurt to get [...]

How to Use WordPress: Part 1

I feel like I haven’t posted anything new in forever! Mainly it’s because I’ve been really busy with new clients and now the result it that I have been to quite a few client meetings to tutor people on how to use their new WordPress site effectively. So, rather than keep writing the same emails [...]

Spring is in the air…

-and I am itching to do some freshening up around here! This post by (Anti) Social Development is great for organizing your spring cleaning to-do list !

How To Start A Forum Topic In WordPress

Let’s face it, sooner or later you are going to have to check out the WordPress support forums for help with your WordPress site. So, to save you a lot of time-consuming trudging through the Codex and all over Google for information on how to find help with troubleshooting your site, I’ll give you some [...]