By Bejarana on February 23, 2010
I am often asked, “What fonts can I use on my website?”
The answer isn’t always very easy. It depends. Web sites are rendered by using fonts that are installed on the visitor’s computer. While font selection in artwork can be anything, selectable text on the web page is limited to which font family you use. [...]
Posted in Web Design
By Bejarana on January 25, 2010
Sometimes the best marketing strategy is to give readers tips for how to chose the right service provider. Your tips should include things to look for, ask for or ways to negotiate better deals. In reality, your motivation is to highlight how much service “you” provide as compared to your competition: however, you are not [...]
Posted in Instructions
By Bejarana on January 18, 2010
On the internet today, your focus should be spent providing single topic focused content on a regular basis (i.e. new information every week). Your website should be designed to present information in both date order as well as categorized navigation.
Posted in Web Development | Tagged Search Engine Visibility
By Bejarana on December 30, 2009
Pay Per Click Advertising is the fastest way to get new traffic to your website, but it requires lots of forethought in the ad creation.
Understanding the Limitations
Besides the punctuation limitations found in the Google Adwords help section, here are field size restrictions you must take into account when building your ad.
Headline: 25 characters
Description line 1: [...]
Posted in Pay Per Click Advertising
By Bejarana on December 28, 2009
Websites are mission critical in today’s business because 88% of all American Internet users “Use a search engine to find information.” (Pew Internet – April 2009) WordPress based sites are search engine friendly and can be setup to automatically fill in the necessary meta data fields. Plus WordPress uses a ping feature to alert the [...]
Posted in Search Engine Visibility | Tagged WordPress
By Bejarana on December 7, 2009
The visual editor provides a semi-WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) content editor that allows you to easily create, edit and format your blog content in a view similar to that of a word processor.
This is the default editing mode of WordPress.com, but if it does not appear to be enabled, you can [...]
Posted in Posts
By Bejarana on November 29, 2009
There are as many color tools as there are colors! Putting together the right colors for your website is likely the best the most difficult part of your website design.
Since color select is personal, we are suggesting you use the Color Scheme Designer to pick the colors for your new website!
Select a color along the [...]
Posted in Web Design
By Bejarana on November 28, 2009
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In addition to understanding how your specific blogging software works, such as WordPress, there are some terms and concepts you need to know.
Archives
A blog is also a good way to keep track of articles on a site. A lot of blogs feature an archive based on dates (like a monthly or [...]
Posted in Instructions
By Bejarana on November 28, 2009
Categories are a way of grouping related posts together. A post can belong to multiple categories, and categories can be organised into a hierarchy.
Note that WordPress also provides tags – you may wish to use these in addition to categories. Each post must belong to at least one category.
Categories are added to posts using the [...]
Posted in Categorization
By Bejarana on November 28, 2009
Once upon a time, WordPress.com used to only allow categories to be used.
These allowed for a broad grouping of post topics, but when you wanted to describe a post in more specific terms, more categories were required. That lead to very long category lists inside the blog and very long lists in Categories Widgets. It [...]
Posted in Categorization