Making your blog available on mobile platforms Have you ever wondered how to make your wordpress available on the iphone, blackberry and all those other great phones? Well I found this plugin which does an amazing job of that without having to change a thing on your wordpress blog. WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. The plugin makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme. I tried this out on my iphone and it works great. I haven’t tried it on the other phones like the G1 and the blackberry yet. You can search for “WPTouch” in your WordPress plugin browser, or you can download the plugin directly. Its a totally free plugin. Download WPTouch here Here are the basic FAQs from the site to answer typical questions about ther plugin. You really should just try it. I Thought The IPhone/IPod Touch/Android Shows My Website Just Fine The Way...

Learning how to build websites can be daunting at first. but with the amount of information on the web, it’s very easy to gradiently approach the subject and become a good website builder. I started a couple of years ago and I can now put together websites with ease. If you want to learn to build websites then this is for you. This article is not for you if you only want to learn to build websites using visual based website builders and/or content management systems. I will be doing a separate tutorial on how to build websites that way. Realize that both ways can be used correctly and have their rightful uses depending on the goal for your website. I will not be telling you how to build websites by myself — instead I will be telling you where I learned to build websites. I will give you links to the right places to learn, and all free. The first and best place to start learning about websites is W3 Schools. W3 Schools has all free tutorials on all of the subjects you need to...

Creating a good website with wordpress is very easy once you have the right direction. In this article I will give you the basic steps to starting up a website/blog with WordPress. First things first before we begin. WordPress is not the ony content management system for blogs/websites — there are many others. I prefer wordpress over anything else due to it’s simplicity and ease of updating and adding plug in functionality. WordPress was originally designed for the creation of blogs. A lot of websites are centered around the idea of a blog which is new articles published frequently. For most websites to do well they need to provide constant valuable information at a decent rate. If you put up a couple of pages on a website and leave it at that, most likely your website will drop from the search engines and disappear. I love the idea of building a website around WordPress and I am working on numerous other websites using it. WordPress Basics A WordPress website consists of these...

What are blogs? Why are they important for Search engines and why are they important for your website?   What is a blog? Most people don’t know what blog means. The definition of blog is: A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio(podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging...

This tutorial covers optimizing a website for sales. What does this mean exactly and why is this important. An example of this is a website I was optimizing that got visits, but no sales. After some steps to optimize it for sales made it a much more productive site that actually sold the intended product almost instantaneously. There is a lot of hype about page rank, keywords and showing up as number 1 on the search engines, which might tend to distract someone from the real purpose of their site. Do not get me wrong — the subjects I brought up are very important for your website. The point I am making here is that there is so much more involved in getting your site to accomplish it’s purpose. In most cases, the purpose of the site is business — which would indicate making money by delivering a product. When you are making a website to sell a product, there are a couple of things you could do to optimize your site for sales. I will go over these next. The first thing...