by Jason Keeley on February 13, 2010
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Knowing when to outsource website management is just as important as knowing when to outsource any of the critical tasks in running a business. In today’s technological world, if you are ignoring your website, you are doing your business a major disservice. Therefore it is vital to be able to recognize the signs of when your website management needs to be done by a professional.
- If your customers, friends and acquaintances comment on the poor design or the lack of updates on your website, it needs professional help.
- If you notice that there are so many other aspects of the business that demand your time and you never seem to have time to do website management, you are probably missing out on a lot of business.
- If you are so technologically challenged that every thing you do in terms of website management has a huge learning curve, it is time to have someone else take care of it.
- If your list of what you would like to do with your website never actually gets done, handing it over to a professional will greatly expedite things so you can actually see your plans come to life.
By outsourcing your website management, you can free yourself to spend more time on tasks that you are truly needed for in the business. You can also put it in the hands of professionals who can make constructive suggestions of cutting edge ways to get the most out of your website. Outsourcing will help you get the most from your website in the shortest amount of time possible.
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by Jason Keeley on November 10, 2009
In the old days –really not so long ago- if you wanted to get a website designed and developed you had to hire a website development company. Well you still can if you need to, but with all the resources and tool currently available there is no reason that you can’t develop you own website that looks as good as the pros.
Many of the web hosting companies that are out there today offer free software that makes putting together a snazzy looking website as easy as one, two, three….literally. They actually take you step by step and help you with your website development.
Take for example Yahoo Sitebuilder. This is free when you use Yahoo Small Business to host your website. Sitebuilder takes you through the process of first choosing a template for your website’s pages and shows you where to plug in text, pictures, and anything else you want to have on your website. And this is merely one example that I thought of off the top of my head.
Why do it yourself? Just as in auto repair or mowing your lawn, if you do it yourself, you save money. This can be a wonderful thing when you are first starting your small business as you will need all the money you can get and you know as well as I do that you will find something related to your business to spend the savings on.
As your business gets bigger you can either change up your site as you go or hire someone down the road if you find yourself not having the time for it. But when you first start out, there is no reason why you shouldn’t do your own website development.
Read reviews of the best website builder services.
This is a guest post by Jason Kay. He is the webmaster for CheapHostingSites.org, which allows consumers to compare cheap hosting solutions.
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by Admin on June 12, 2009
WordPress has released new version of its blogging software, WordPress 2.8. This version has bunch of bug fixes, improvements to themes and widgets and has added some fantastic taxonomy features. There are over 180 new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements in version 2.8 as compared to version 2.7. There are over 790 bug fixes!
You can check some of the features of this new release in my earlier post.
This release is named in honor of noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker. Here’s a quick video overview of everything in the new release:
Here’s a screenshot of my Dashboard:
Download WordPress 2.8.
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WordPress 2.8.1 Beta has been released by WordPress. WordPress testers can download the new version.
Here are some of the features of WordPress 2.8.1 Beta:
- New Theme Installer routines
- Add CodePress syntax highlighting to Theme and Plugin editors
- Use “Custom Header” for menu text and revise Default theme to reflect change
- Separate Comments into a separate postbox, from Discussion postbox, on the Edit Post screen
- Make tags accessible without Javascript on the edit screen
- Don’t ask for confirmation when marking a comment as spam
- Don’t notify post author of own comments
- Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns as set via the Screen Options tab
- Add column “Rating” in Administration > Links > Edit
- Improve installer to help people entering wrong email addresses
- Per Page option for plugins
- Show absolute date instead of relative date for scheduled posts
- Autosave post/page when pressing Control/Command+S
- Add toggle all button to the Gallery tab in the uploader
- Support more than one gallery on the same page
- Add per page option to Screen Options for comments, posts, pages, media, categories, and tags
- Show Tools menu for all users so they can access Turbo
- Fix most popular link category list
- Add description field for tags
- “Choose a city in the same timezone as you” for Timezone in Administration > Settings > General
- In upgrade process, provide better explanation for database upgrade message
- Enforce unique email addresses in Add/Edit users
- Hide things that need to be available to screen readers via offscreen positioning
- Use invisible class for hiding labels and legends
- Use a semantic class name for text targeted to screen readers
See all the features of WordPress 2.8.1 Beta here.
Download WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 (.zip) now and try it out. Since its a beta release, I don’t recommend you to try it on your primary blog.
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by Admin on February 10, 2009
Since Google’s acquisition of Feedburner in June 2007, everything were been running normally on their original servers and software, but Google has different plans. All Feedburner accounts need to transfer their feeds to the Google system by February 28th, 2009 in order to maintain seamless feed traffic.
I just moved all of my feeds to try out the system, and I can attest that it is quick and painless. Everything is fine now.
Here are the steps:
- Log into your account at http://www.feedburner.com
- When you login with your old account information, a window asking for transferring you or to continue to the old feedburner will pop. You need to click in the Migrate button.
- It then confirms if you are already signed in as a Google account-holder and asks if you’d like to use that account, another account, or create a new Google account to manage your feeds. You can choose the option according to your needs.
- After that step, you just need to confirm which feeds will be transferred, and you’re done.
All in all, it took about 3 minutes to move them all. The new Feedburner login page is http://feedburner.google.com.
Check your feed numbers before transferring, so you will know if the transfer went ok. Google said, it is not a problem with our feeds, since they will be redirected to them.
If you had any problems while migrating, you can share them here.
-Mahesh.
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