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How to Register your Domain Name

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Website About Us PageRegister Your Domain Name

To get started on your website you need to have a domain name and register your domain name with a registrar.  The domain name is the friendly name you setup to match your business name or brand.  There are many new choices for the extension used as a part of your domain name.  You can reserve any domain name not used already.  

Technically, you may not care that your domain name is a uniquely named identifier tied to a web server on the internet. It is the part of the web address after the http:// and includes the “.” Suffix of .com, .net, .org, etc. For example, https://www.thebizpalcompany.com, where TheBizPalCompany.com is the domain name. Domain names are registered and tracked by a domain name registrar. [Read more…] about How to Register your Domain Name

Digital Design for Web and Mobile is Both and Art and Science

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Trinity College Dublin Artwork_2Technology, Digital Art, and Expertise

Author:  Becky Bruso

Coming up with a great design, whether for  an editorial calendar for social media, and email marketing design, or website design takes skill.  It means the creator must understand the tools used to create this digital media as well as have a keen understanding of how to work the visual elements into an eye appealing arrangement to capture your client’s attention.  One thing I have learned for sure is that expertise always costs more.  Sometimes this is difficult to grasp since most design and planning projects involve services which cannot be touched and felt. 
Quality always trumps price For Sure!  Expertise will deliver quality results!  
  These projects are products too, but not like those which you go to the store to buy and take home with you in a tangible form like a new laptop or ipad.   One thing proves true time and time again; no matter what it is I am buying, I always find that you do get what you pay for!  Quality always trumps price for Sure! Expertise will deliver quality results. [Read more…] about Digital Design for Web and Mobile is Both and Art and Science

Oh Where Oh Where Did that Business Card Go?

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Collecting business cards and maintaining them can be a chore.  I am sharing my really quick thoughts on this as I began to try to follow up with a couple of contacts whom I met at a recent networking event.  A couple of days passed since the event and the cards have gone from a prominent place in my pocket, to one on my desk.  [Read more…] about Oh Where Oh Where Did that Business Card Go?

What is WordPress?

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WordPress for the Non-Technical Business owner and Professional, Author, Blogger and Hobbyist Computer imagecrop_WordPressWordPress started out as a Web Publishing Platform and it has been around since 2003. I think it is one of the best examples of a free Open Source software community. It has grown to be more than a blogging tool and fully featured websites, storefront, and more can now be built with WordPress.  

What does that mean if you are not of the tech world?

Open source means that anyone can find out how it works and contribute to it. Simply put, there is a community of people who contribute to making WordPress hum, and share their methods, with everyone. Equal access means more power at your finger tips.  In the tech world, we would call WordPress a Platform.  This is nothing more than a fancy name for a software tool that allow you to do a specific job or task.  
You Can Become a WordPress Expert In the early days of the software industry, all this sort of information would be top secret and this would mean that you would need to hire an expert of a particular software background to do anything at all. Open source means you and I and the experts all have equal access to use the powerful tools in WordPress. Of course it has had many improvements over the course of the years, but there are a few key features which are very impressive within this platform. WordPress is combination of technical features with a MySql database, PHP, and HTML which allow you to easily setup a website and add basic functionality quickly.  You don’t need a programmer to put it together as these features work together with drag and drop ease.   The Open Source components are contributed to the WordPress community with no cost to you, for the most part. Some carry a fee, but the are a great deal of highly rated plugins and widgets which are totally free for you to use.

WordPress Themes Free you from Hiring out Web Designers 

There are preset formats, called themes, which allow you to pick the look and feel of your website. There are software components called widgets and plugins which add bells and whistles to the way your site operates. All these features are available to you to choose from. And, they mean you don’t have to hire a web designer or programmer to make them work.  

WordPress is used by Millions of Websites Everyday

There are hundreds of people all over the world working on the Open source which makes up WordPress. The software tools they contribute are rated by the entire community. This gives you the peace of mind knowing that when you do your due diligence prior to downloading a theme, widget, or plugin that millions of others have found value in using this very same software component. Rest assured that WordPress is used by millions of sites and tens of millions of people everyday. To the lay person, the volume of information out there on WordPress can leave one wondering where to begin.

How to Begin with WordPress

If you don’t know where to begin with WordPress, this is where I step in. I can be your WordPress tour guide and lead you through my website boot camp to allow you to build out a basic website which you can build on. The workshop only requires a small investment of your time and an affordable workshop fee. Check it out now!

Is Your Domain Name Being Held Hostage?

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yesno questionDomain name registration might seem like a really simple and boring topic.  There are a couple of gotchas you can very easily fall prey to.  It is highly important that you or your organization own your web assets and be on record under the Registrant Name.  You would not allow a third party to have your ATM card and password; your web assets are just as valuable.  [Read more…] about Is Your Domain Name Being Held Hostage?