• WordPress Plugins

    I use WordPress for all of my blogs and mini-sites. Here are the plugins I recommend: Add to Any – It’s important to turn off the annoying hover feature by clicking the box “Only show the menu when the user clicks the Share/Save button” under Menu options. All in One SEO – be sure and…

  • Comments Sense

    There are as many ways to run a commenting system as there are ways to comment. In this post I talk about some of the main strategies and how common sense sometimes doesn’t apply. There are main choices to a comment system: Turn comments off or don’t use them. Turn comments on with a website,…

  • Indianapolis WordPress Development

    Erich Stauffer is a WordPress implementation shop serving the greater Indianapolis area. We specialize in developing web sites for WordPress using professional web design techniques. WordPress is an open source, fully supported content management system (CMS) that was originally developed for blogs, but can be used for almost anything. We chose WordPress because it allows…

  • Environmental Management and Development

    We just finished updating Indiana Backflow prevention specialists, EMD Consultants’ website. They run WordPress with a custom theme designed and developed by Erich Stauffer. It features custom widgets, SEO, and will soon be adding social media elements like Facebook icons and Twitter feeds.

  • Our Client is #1 on Google for Indianapolis Dentist

    By using our SEO and social media management, Dr. Reese, DDS, MAGD is now the #1 ranked search engine result on Google for the term, Indianapolis Dentist. Using SEO and Social Media Management, we beat out hundreds of other dentists and we can do the same for you – even if you’re not a dentist.…

  • Monthly Website Reports

    Here’s an example of what our customers get from us each month in their Monthly Website Report: Good afternoon. I hope your summer is going well. Attached is your monthly Google Analytics report and a special message below. A Special Message Have you ever thought of an app for your phone that you thought could…

  • Juice Extractors

    Cost Publishing had us design a custom WordPress theme for their new Juice Extractors mini-site. We chose a clean, white look, but don’t let that fool you. There’s lots of bells and whistles (or apples and oranges in this case) going on under the hood.

  • How to Start Your Own Web Design Business

    I recently wrote a blog post on my Indianapolis web design site about how to start your own web design business. I shared a little bit about how I got started, but I wanted to go into more detail here on my own blog, An Entrepreneurial Mind. When I first started, I had just quit…

  • Google Authorship Markup Verification

    Trey Smith sent out an email stating how, “Google just dropped a BOMBSHELL foreshadowing the biggest change to getting your page listed in a decent position.” Google’s newest thing is that they don’t want the web to be anonymous anymore. This is all part of Google profiles and Google plus being public. The new thing…