To keep your blog posts and pages looking nice, add some padding to a left or right aligned image, so your text doesn’t bump up into the image and look unprofessional. It’s generally a good idea to have your whole post typed up, then add the pictures. It’s very easy but might take a little [...]

September 15th will be the last day I will be able to start on any new full-site projects for 2011, until sometime mid-Spring or later 2012. I will be available for current clients, who need questions answered and problems solved. If you are interested in having me design and build your small business website, I [...]

This will give my clients, using my CMS/Ecommerce system version 2.71 or above, help in adding images into their regular website pages. If you are using 2.62, these options are not available. Email me to ask about upgrading your site. This is not for WordPress clients (though the add image setup in WordPress is quite [...]

I did a search for web design pricing and found that for small businesses who are on a budget, they must shop around or they may come to the conclusion that they cannot afford a website. On designquote.net, I selected the services I provide to my ecommerce clients and came up with – Small Company [...]

Ecommerce/CMS clients can back up their website database quickly and easily. It should be done at least weekly, or after you make changes to your site (changing page content, adding pages, adding new products, etc). All your changes are stored in your database and should your site ever crash or get hacked, it can easily [...]

I’m going to be starting school at Chemeketa Community College here in Salem in January. I’m going to get a degree for what I’ve been doing for years! It’ll help fill in the gaps that any self taught designer naturally has, and I look forward to improving my graphic design skills further and being able [...]

Updating my “must have” plugin list. Most WordPress users will find these either very handy or essential! Make sure you have the latest version of WordPress. It’s insanely easy to update your WordPress software and plugins right in your WP admin area, something I really appreciate as a web designer/developer using the software for myself [...]

This is a bare basics guide to writing blog posts as well as adding, editing, and deleting pages in your website built on WordPress. This tutorial assumes you use WordPress for your entire website (for your website pages and your blog). It also assumes absolutely no knowledge of WordPress. Did I leave something out? Email [...]

I edited this post to remove all the unnecessary junk, just use Askimet. It’s my best friend, really. I could hug it (it’s protecting me from almost 100,000 spam comments between all my sites). Aksimet – Already installed on most self-hosted WordPress installations, but you need a code called a WordPress.com API to use it. [...]

UPDATED! See the “Resources” page for more on social networking! Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, flickr… if you haven’t heard of any of those, you’ve been living under a rock. Welcome to 2009. Social networking is a way to get your name, and your business’ name, out into the world. More than free advertising, if [...]