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, 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: 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: Blogging Help, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing

10 Podcast Tips That Lead To A Great Sound

PodCast Ad Microphone

by Sharon Housley

What defines a good podcast? Make no mistake — there is a difference between a good podcast and a not-so-good podcast. A high-caliber podcast is much more than just decent content. The sound quality, and the way a podcast is recorded, will impact the value of the podcast as well. Podcast structure and pre-planning are also important; do not… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Content 2.0 – the Evolution of Theater?

At WebHelperMagazine.com, we run article series on Copy Writing Techniques to help you in creating good web content at your blogs and sites, and have a section on Social Media Marketing which contains a number of articles on the details of creating videos for the web. But has anyone given any thought to the history of visual story telling? First came Theater, then Television

In: Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Advertising on a budget — Part 2: Thinking small

Advertising on a Budget in the newspaper

by Michelle PW

This is the second article of a three-part series. I’m illustrating the marketing challenges of a small business, PrescottWeddings.com. Here’s where you can find “Part 1: Using print to drive traffic online.

Our goal was to both build the PWC brand and drive traffic to the Web site. Advertising regularly was essential. Yet it was… Continue reading