Do you want to change your WordPress website or blogs homepage? Is your homepage showing the wrong page or post? Changing and setting your WordPress website’s homepage can be accomplished by « Continue Reading this Article »

Internal Page and Post Cross-Linking Best Practices

When a colleague recently asked me about best practices for linking between pages on his WordPress site, I decided to do some research to see if there was a better way to accomplish this than the built in WordPress standard HTML URL linking tool.  Adding internal links throughout your website is enhances user experience, marketing, and search engine optimization (SEO).  For example, you may mention a number of your company’s featured products and services on your home page for which you’ve created a separate sales or detail page for each one elsewhere within your website.  It’s good practice to hyperlink each p/s on your home page to each of their corresponding individual pages, because it gives your site visitors an additional opportunity to delve deeper into your website instead of solely relying on them to use your main site navigation.  Internal linking is also recognized and valued by search engine crawlers and will contribute to a more positive ranking for your site.

The first method you could use to link to another page or post within your WordPress website is to « Continue Reading this Article »

When using WordPress “out of the box” as a CMS for your website, organizing your pages and site navigation can be a bit unwieldy. Fortunately, their is a simple way to accomplish this using a few WordPress plugins, pageMash and Multi-level Navigation. For purposes of this article, we’ll assume you’ve already installed the pageMash plugin, have properly configured the Multi-level Navigation plugin and have it integrated into your website’s template (ITegrity built websites already have this setup and configured).

pageMash works in conjunction with your website’s multi-level dropdown site navigation menu. By changing the settings in pageMash, you can manipulate the order of your page links in your navigation, the placment of your links, beit in the main navigaition or in a dropdown menu under a main link, or whether or not the page link will even appear at all in your navigation. Let’s take a look at how this works. « Continue Reading this Article »

Thunderbird is a free, open source e-mail client developed by Mozilla, the producers of the Firefox web browser.  Thunderbird has a rich set of email management features very similar to Microsoft Outlook and can be used with either Windows or Mac.  Whereas Outlook must be purchased, Thunderbird is completely free.  An increasing number of Outlook users are switching to Thunderbird for « Continue Reading this Article »

Do you want to upload your PDF files to your WordPress website for your visitors to view in their web browser? Here’s how you do it. « Continue Reading this Article »

Managing more than one email account in Outlook can become a bit cumbersome at times, but there is a way to make things easier. The first thing you’ll want to do, if you haven’t done it already, is to add a « Continue Reading this Article »

Do you want to use an email address with the domain name of your website in the address like, my-name@my-website.com? Would you like to use Microsoft Outlook to view and manage your emails? Setting up your email accounts for your website usually involves two main steps, 1) setting up your email accounts with your website hosting company and 2) setting up Outlook to connect to your hosted email account and download the messages to your computer.

The first step is to « Continue Reading this Article »

Do you want to upload your PowerPoint presentations to your website for your visitors to download? Or do you just want them to view your PowerPoint presentations directly on your website without providing access to your original PowerPoint file? Here are a few different methods you can use to upload your presentations to WordPress. « Continue Reading this Article »

There are a number of steps involved with adding an image or other media file to your WordPress website and many formatting options to choose from. It may seem a little complicated at first, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll be glad all of these options are available to you to help fine tune the appearance of your website.

To insert an image or other type of media into a WordPress post or page within your website, first « Continue Reading this Article »

Adding a new post to your WordPress website is very similar to adding a new page. The main difference between a post and a page is that a page, as the name implies, is simply a webpage on your site. A post is a blog entry, or journal entry, that appears in a specified area of your website. It can be placed on your homepage or in a different section of your website, for example under “Resources” or “News”. Posts can contain information about almost anything. They can be news stories about your business or personal diary entries about your day. You can use posts to add new articles or white papers to your site..or ones you’ve written in the past. You can also add Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and Adobe PDFs to your posts (read about how to add PowerPoints or PDFs to your post or page).

Another difference is « Continue Reading this Article »

Adding a new page to your WordPress website is very similar to adding a new post. To add a new page, log in to the Admin area of WordPress and click on “Pages” in the left navigation. In the expanded “Pages” area in the navigation, click on « Continue Reading this Article »

When you copy and paste your Microsoft Word document content into a WordPress post (or page), the hidden proprietary Microsoft text formatting code is retained. This can have unintended consequences when you publish your post. Fortunately WordPress has a built in feature to recognize Microsoft text formatting code and convert it to browser friendly HTML formatting (click here to learn how to remove Microsoft Word formatting in WordPress)

After you’ve logged into the Admin area of your WordPress site and you are ready to write a post, locate the « Continue Reading this Article »

In Microsoft Word, have you created an article, blog entry, or page content for your website which you’ve attempted to copy and paste into WordPress and have problems with formatting the text? Does the text you just copied from your Microsoft Word document appear different when you try to add it to WordPress? « Continue Reading this Article »

To start, let’s take a look at what CSS is and why it’s so important to modern web design. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and was introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium in late 1996 with the aim to separate web page content (written copy, images, multimedia, etc.) from presentation (fonts, colors, layout, page structure, etc.). Another chief goal of CSS is to improve and enhance web accessibility. Previous to the introduction of CSS, a web page’s HTML markup defined both content and presentation. « Continue Reading this Article »

The Validation of Viewstate MAC failed error commonly occurs when an ASP.NET application developer uses the Membership, Roles and/or Profile Providers included with the .NET Framework. The usual scenario is the developer creates the application on their local machine and stores the project files in a local directory. When the developer copies or publishes the project files to another local directory or to a remote server, the login system doesn’t appear to function properly.

The solution is to « Continue Reading this Article »

A privacy policy is one of the most important documents on any website. A privacy policy is technically a legal document or notice placed on a website providing information about how a website owner uses personal information collected throughout their website when someone visits it.

Privacy policies usually contain details about what types of personal information are collected, how the personal information may be used, the persons or parties to whom the information may be disclosed and the security steps taken to protect the personal information.
Why is it importance for me to have a privacy policy for my website? « Continue Reading this Article »

Google Analytics is an enterprise-class web analytics solution offered free by Google. Google Analytics generates detailed statistics about the visitors and web traffic generated for a website. Using Google Analytics with your website is a great idea because it takes minutes to sign up for and will provide you all the necessary metrics you’ll need to determine what is working, or not working, on your website for successfully capturing new sales for your business. « Continue Reading this Article »

Maintenance is essential whether it applies to your car, your garden or your website. A successful website requires ongoing maintenance so it can attract, educate and expand its client base and generate revenue for your business. This means a website is never completely finished. It is a work in progress just like keeping your garden weed free and producing food for your dinner table.

Simply having a website is not enough. If you expect consumers to find your web site… and consistently return to your website, you must « Continue Reading this Article »

A website is an online representation of your company and is the most cost effective way to connect with customers all over the world, not just your physical geographic region. With competition increasing within many business industries on a global scale and with general business market trends shifting towards increased technology adoption, having a website for your business is of vital importance. « Continue Reading this Article »

A web browser toolbar is of great help for people who frequently surf the Internet for information. Toolbars do not eliminate the work of searching. Instead, they assist in cutting your browsing time significantly so that you can devote more time to do what you want to with the information you gather.

There are numerous tools available on the Internet to help online surfers with web searching. One of the most valuable and useful tools is the Alexa Toolbar. « Continue Reading this Article »