Happy Tuesday! Looking back through my older posts, I noticed that I’ve mentioned the importance of photo quality a number of times. We love looking at pictures. And I guarantee the people who visit your web site love looking at pictures too. So why would you post any photo on your blog that is less than fantastic? As I sit here and think about that question, I can only think of four possible explanations why a photo would exist on your site that is below your standards: You want ... VIEW POST
Tuesdays With Topher: Basic Photo Editing
Tuesdays With Topher: How to Hug a Blogger
Hi there! As you probably know by now, Shanna attended a blogging conference earlier this month in Atlanta. This was her third round at Haven, and each time she returns, she is so full of energy, and recharged, and ready to take on the world. After spending three days with her peers (in the real world ... not through a keyboard), she's reinvigorated because she was surrounded by people that understand what it's like to work on a web site from home, and these friends understand how ... VIEW POST
Tuesdays With Topher: Content
It’s been a couple of months now since Shanna graciously allowed me a recurring spot on her site, and during that time I’ve tried to provide some helpful tidbits on how to secure your blogspace, what goes into picking the right CMS, and how to design your site to suit your fancy. And I’ve tried to weave in a few points that I want to write about in greater detail, and one of those points is content. I’ve said it before, and I’ll continue to beat the drum … content is king (or ... VIEW POST
Tuesdays With Topher: Housecleaning Your Blog
Good day! Topher here, back for another Tuesdays With Topher. This week, we’re housecleaning. WordPress style!!! A blog is a great thing. How lucky are we, that we live in a time where ideas, talents, and stories can be so easily shared?? If we stop and think about all the cumulative efforts that went in to someone reading a blog post, it’s truly astounding. From the coders who wrote the software, to the factory workers who built the servers it runs on, to the wizards who thought up ... VIEW POST
Tuesdays With Topher: How to Secure Your WordPress Site
Hey there! It’s been a little while since I've checked-in, but I'm back, and I have a brand new article! Hopefully, you've read through my previous articles on blogging … and maybe checked out my first YouTube video review (it’s for a lawn mower I'm kind of in love with). If you haven’t looked yet, the links are right here: Something I've tried to weave into my previous blogging posts is a topic that may not be front-of-mind; however, it is an absolute must if ... VIEW POST
TWT: Ryobi Cordless Mower Review
Over the past few weeks, my Tuesdays with Topher posts have focused on how to get started blogging. We've discussed picking your site name, buying the domain, picking a platform, choosing and theme, and last week we discussed how to pimp your site using plugins. This week (just in time for Father's Day), we're going in a completely different direction. Late last year, Ryobi sent Shanna a battery-powered lawn mower to try out. It arrived in December, and it killed me waiting until ... VIEW POST
Tuesdays With Topher: How to Manage Your PlugIns
Welcome back to another Tuesdays with Topher!!! Now we’re in the swing of this whole blogging thing: We have a domain where we can park our site, we have a Content Management System that helps us manage our posts, we have an attractive theme we like (but continuing to tweak), and now we’re ready to add a few more pops of WOW. Like Themes, brilliant coders all around the world are working hard to design PlugIns that you’re going to want. Why would you want them? Because PlugIns ... VIEW POST