In: Blogging Help, WordPress CMS Help

WordPress 2.6 User Tips

Nine ways to use the new WordPress 2.6 for greater productivity and successful content creation…

by Scott Frangos

A new floating post box that grabs media you want to blog about, post versioning, avatar options and more… Is it time to upgrade, BlogMasters?  Sure — WP 2.6 offers some great new features for work teams. WordPress 2.6 was released yesterday, so let’s take a look at a some ways… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Copy Writing, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

How NOT to Write a Business Blog

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Are you thinking of your business blog as a Conversation (with a capital “C”) with potential customers? Why not? That’s the strength and advantage you have over your competitors who either don’t have a blog, or have one but don’t converse with it. In this installment of our Copy Writing Matters series, we’ll look at two

In: Blogging Help, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing, WordPress CMS Help

WordPress as a CMS: Fifth Avenue Advisors

by Scott Frangos

Fifth Avenue Advisors, is a “B2B” (Business to Business) website for a company that helps other business people decide if it’s time to sell their company, and learn what it’s worth. The company wanted the advantages of a good, dynamic CMS — Content Management System — and one that was simple to manage and use. WordPress was chosen for its easy learning curve, powerful… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, FireFox Tricks, Social Media-Marketing

SEO Matters: Discovering Backlinks that Matter

This is the first in a new series on SEO Matters, where we’ll look at the basics, with some intermediate and advanced level tips to help your Blogs and Websites rank better in search results. Since Backlinks are very important, we’ll watch a short, informative video about the concept, then learn a FireFox trick

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing, WordPress CMS Help

WordPress as a CMS: Greek Care Website

In this edition of the continuing series on using WordPress as a Content Management System — CMS — we take a look at GreekCare.org — a non-profit resource site using a handful of key plugins and some custom programming to meet its mission online.

by Scott Frangos

The Greek Care website (GreekCare.org.au) is a service for Melbourne, Australia’s aging… Continue reading

In: Learning CSS, OS WebMaster

CSS Concepts & Design Principles in the Zen Garden

by Scott Frangos

Learning about CSS at WebHelperMagazine.com

In this Lesson we’ll look at the CSS structure of an excellent site design in the CSS Zen Garden. You can follow along using the Web Developer Firefox extension which will help us reveal the hidden structure of the design.

In: OS WebMaster, Online Business, WordPress CMS Help

WordPress WOW: Eight Top Sites using WordPress as a CMS…

by Scott Frangos

Where’s the Blog? Answer: maybe nowhere on your WordPress website. As a WordPress developer and consultant, it never fails to amaze me how creative and wide ranging the websites developed on the WordPress platform have become. And, how companies are sometimes using it to power their websites without even using the blogging function.

We’re going to look at some companies doing just that… Continue reading