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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.
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Self-Hosting Tips for WordPress
Thinking about hosting your own WordPress domain on your own server? Here are a few things to consider. If you use our hosting you are using a linux-based server running WordPress on a SQL database. If you hosted it yourself you would still have to have a linux server with access to a SQL database…
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Keyword Metrics for Success
Research and Analysis Metrics Micro-niches are identified as the number one keyword receiving at least 80 searches per day and websites containing that keyword being less than 30,000 globally. The key is to find that sweet spot on the matrix of high traffic and low competition. To do this, find keywords which match the following…
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Top 5 Quick and Dirty Hosted Blog Publishing Services
Whether or not you have your own domain, sooner or later you’re going to have the need for a hosted blog platform to create more backlinks. Webories, the web directories web site, has two articles on hosted blog publishing services* (“Top 5 Hosted Blog Publishing Services” and “Top 5 Hosted Micro-Blogging Publishing Services”) that I…
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Don’t Forget About Weebly
Weebly allows you to build a true website, but it’s drag and drop interface can be confusing and frustrating for some. It offers a lot of customization options. Tumblr offers a good mix with extreme ease of use for novices along with easy customization options for programmers or designers looking at it for the first…
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Erich Stauffer Web Design
Erich Stauffer WordPress Web Design and Development for Small Businesses in the Greater Indianapolis Area When our sales managers started to realize that what customers really cared about was the ability to control their own website, they realized that they were not just selling great looking web design and SEO services, but control and access…