Effective Classy Websites

Being open source, features in WordPress come in the form of plugins. Made by developers.

Geeks basically, that make really cool new features available by creating little applications that run within the structure of WordPress.

Hot Tip: Find new plugins and themes fast! Try our new Google WordPress search engine page.

Want to add video from YouTube and Quicktime movies to your site? Try the Vipers Video quicktags Plugin. Maybe you want to make sure the email addresses you display on your page can’t be harvested by spam bots. Go for the DBD EMail encoder.

This 5 minute screencast will show you the most elegant expedient way to try out new plugins on your site.

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The one and only Seth Godin talking on Ted.com about marketing and the adapting approach to the current marketing zeitgeist. In general we are seeing a shift towards more information and less time.

Seth is a fantasic teacher and an innovative marketer with some very relevant ideas that reflect the general state of what it takes to make an impression in the current marketplace. Enjoy!

The next update for WordPress is coming in the next week or two. It features some awesome new changes to the interface that I can say are great improvements.

I am testing the beta 2.7 on this site now and I am quickly seeing how much smoother the process is becoming. Its cleaner, more usable and a little faster as well. Check out the new movie released by WordPress.com to allay fears of an ever changing interface!

Before you can create a website it needs a name.

www.google.com is a domain.  www.gofindyourself.net is a domain.

Even though it seems like putting the horse before the cart, what it does is get you thinking about what you are about. This is a good thing.

If possible a domain name should serve at least one if not all of these qualities: Read the rest of this entry »