Whether you work for yourself or someone else, it's important to establish and maintain both a strong personal and professional online presence. Given the uncertain economic times, you should be actively engaged in how you present yourself to the world (wide web). When prospective employers or clients Google your name, what do they find? If it's nothing or next to nothing, then you have a great opportunity. If there's a lot of junk, then you also have an opportunity to turn that around to your advantage! Either way, you have some work to do.
Continue reading...Thursday, December 4, 2008
In this multi-part series, I'm going to cover various applications that I've personally used and can recommend to anyone starting a web-based business. Although I'm not using any software for e-commerce or other really advanced activities (yet), I'm using some smart stuff behind the scenes. Read on for my first round of useful applications.
Continue reading...Monday, October 13, 2008
Wordpress is a fantastic platform for launching a blog or small website. However, it does come with a learning curve, especially if you are a novice with server lingo or HTML. It pays to get someone to help you get it set up correctly from the start. You also need to learn or brush up on some simple HTML and photo editing techniques.
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 7, 2008
So you want to start a website? There are an overwhelming number of options available, both in terms of the software you'll use for the initial setup and ongoing maintenance, and the hosting platform or environment where your site will live. It can frankly lead to analysis paralysis trying to pick the "best" system to use. There is no 100% perfect system out there. But some are more user-friendly (especially for beginners) than others.
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
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