When You Should Fire Your Web Designer
Is your existing web designer also a competent blog designer? Did you know it takes special skills to effectively design a business blog? When you’re having a blog created for your website, it may not be in your business’s best interest to use the same web designer that did your original site. I’ve been doing this

WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org – The Definitive Overview for Business
Do you feel as though blogging is more complex than it’s been made out to be? When you’re new to blogging, choosing a blogging service or software is overwhelming. Many people never even learn that there’s a version of WordPress you can put on your own domain. The dot com version of WordPress is the first thing they encounter and off they go. If you are aware there are two versions of the wo

How to Bake a Blog
I’m not exactly the Ace of Cakes. I’m a decent cook, but I’m no baker. Knowing this about myself, but wanting to bake a birthday cake for my step-daughter’s birthday, I did what any normal man would do: I bought a cake mix and a can of frosting. You’d think it would be foolproof. All I had to do was follow the instructions on the box. Water, vegetable oil, three eggs, a bowl, a mixer, and a 9

Headway 1.5 Now Available
People have been asking us for weeks now when the new version of Headway is ready for download. I’m happy to announce that it’s ready, and you can now get it. I’ve been showing you some of its capabilities over the past few weeks, and the comments and tweets have been really encouraging. Briefly, though, let me outline the main improvements from 1.0 to 1.5: True WYSYWIG Layout in the Blog Theme: The Layout Editor is now the Visual Layout Editor, and it is truly visual: you work directly on the blog page as though you were viewing it on the web, and you can simply click on something and edit it

WordCamp NYC is the Place to be this Weekend
Have you heard of WordCamp? Not word as in writing, but word as in WordPress. They happen all over the world, and they’re a great place to learn all things WordPress. The ones in the bigger cities are, well… bigger. WordCamp NYC looks like it’s gonna be a good one. I’m going to be there, so if you