2010 is on it’s way out, and your small business or organization might still be operating without a strong web presence? Ring in the New Year with a new website with a little help from MLD! There is still time in December for us to create a website for you that comes with an easily [...] Read More
This post is here as a resource for web designers, but it can certainly serve as a resource for anyone looking to earn some extra money on the side. The site is Freelancer.com. Likewise, anyone looking to get some help on a project without the hindrance of needing to hire staff or give up valuable [...] Read More
Hopefully, you have enjoyed my series on creating a website using WordPress. I decided to add my conversation on podcasting as an Extra Credit item rather than a step. And that’s mainly because it’s only relevant in certain situations. Having a website doesn’t necessitate having a podcast…but having created a website using WordPress will make [...] Read More
You may or may not have heard the term SEO thrown around online. Most Website Design companies will usually promote, as one of their features, their SEO efforts. So what is it, why does it matter and can you, the novice, do anything about it? Search Engine Optimization is the process of improving your website traffic from [...] Read More
At this point, you hopefully have walked your way through creating a reasonably attractive website using WordPress and a related theme. You’ve added some content pages and might have even figured out how to do a few other things on your own. Good job! Now we want to think about adding additional functionality to your [...] Read More
Because I do a lot of work for ministries, I am always on the lookout for easy to use, easy to implement church tech. These WordPress themes are really nice and professional for a church site and the price is oh so right! Okay not free, but still….really inexpensive compared to the thousands of dollars [...] Read More
Okay, hopefully you found a theme you liked and hopefully you didn’t run into much trouble installing it. If you are working from within your WordPress dashboard to browse themes you basically pick it, click install, click activate. Ta Da, your new theme is active. So, what’s next? You are almost done now. So, let’s [...] Read More
Well, by now you’ve got something…but it ain’t pretty! It’s pretty plain. Now is the time to find a design. Websites can be hand coded in a variety of languages with a plethora of tools, but I promised you that you would be up in a couple of hours so we aren’t even going to [...] Read More
Alright….Remember the information sheet that I told you to print from step one! Pull it out again if you happen to have logged out of your webhost’s website after registration. We are going to step through the basic things required to get up and running. My directions are based on StartLogic’s setup (because I know [...] Read More
Now that you’ve got a “www.name”, the next question becomes what are you going to put there? There is nothing like a blank slate to kill any creativity that you might have thought you had. And this is where people usually stall out, but don’t give up now! This is the good part. You already [...] Read More
