Building your Freelance Business Around WordPress

March 31, 2010

So, you’re a freelance designer, developer, copywriter or journalist. This excellent blog post covers how WordPress can be used by you in your business.

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Sending blog posts to your email list

March 30, 2010
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One of the main aims of a blog or landing page is to build a mailing list. With a list full of people eager to hear what you have to say, it becomes possible to sell targeted goods and services alongside advice, news, reviews etc. When I find a blog I’m interested in, what I [...]

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Thesis Post Images and Thumbnails not working

February 22, 2010
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Thesis is, in my view, the best WordPress theme for commercial sites but there can be a couple of niggles when it comes to installing it on a shared hosting platform such as, in my case, a Heart Internet Reseller account. Thesis includes the facility to include a post image: this is an image that [...]

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If money were no object – would I buy an iPad?

January 28, 2010
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Let’s just begin by saying that I have purchased Apple products in the past. I’ve owned an iMac, an eMac, several iPod Nanos, a MacBook and an iPod Classic. To me, they are the masters of hardware design and some of their software is also excellent (the iPhone/iPod Touch OS and Keynote being two outstanding [...]

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Being Happy: Step 1 – Take Responsibility

January 7, 2010

About Me I’m not a self-development guru but I am interested in the area and have studied many of the best practitioners. This series of blog entries summarises the main themes I’ve seen reoccurring time and time again: a series of universally accepted principles that really should be taught to our children at school. I [...]

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Paypal fiasco

January 6, 2010

I’m all for Buyer Protection (after all, I’m a buyer more often than a seller) but Paypal’s Dispute Resolution system needs sorting out. One of my companies offers an online subscription service. On Christmas Eve, a customer emailed us to say they couldn’t access the service having paid for it. On Boxing Day having waited [...]

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Google Apps Premier: Week One

December 11, 2009

I've spent some time during a busy week signing up for Google Apps Premier. Why? The main benefit to my companies is that it allows us to use corporate level email facilities without the expense or hassle of setting up and running an Exchange (or similar) server. I'm currently in the 30 day free trial [...]

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How to edit remote files in Microsoft Expression Web 3

December 2, 2009
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I’m just starting to experiment with Expression Web 3 as a site editor (specifically for editing PHP, CSS and Javascript files) and the first stumbling block was how to set it up so that I can edit my remote files directly without having to create a local version. This is necessary because I don’t have [...]

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Making Your Own Candles shop launches

November 11, 2009
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Our latest commercial venture www.MakingYourOwnCandles.co.uk has launched in time for Christmas. This site/business was created as part of a project for PCPro (or which more in due course) and offers easy-to-use but professional quality candle making kits that anyone can use to create coloured and scented 15-hour candles. The site was created using WordPress and [...]

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Maclaren Stupidity

November 10, 2009

The utter stupidity of big corporations never ceases to amaze. Forced by law in the US to provide a protective cap to owners of their push-chairs, Maclaren refuse to do so in this country because our law does not force them to do so. Utterly pathetic: they could have had a marketing triumph by issuing [...]

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