Flame Scorpion

If you want to do a thing the right way, but you don’t know where to start you should learn from others who are already successful in the area.

Right now you want to start a blog, you need good content, promotion and a good theme. The content depends a lot on what you are writing about and who are you writing for. The promotion also depends on your niche. The theme is the one who can work the same for many niches.

The theme should assure that the text can be read easily, the navigation is good, the search engine optimization is ok. These are some aspects of the theme. [Read the rest of this entry…]

This question raises to many webmasters that want to start a new website using wordpress. There is not an universal answer, it depends on what you want to do with your website. It also depends on you technical skills.

If you want just to kick off a simple blog to post your toughts or you are unsure what you want to do you can go with a simple theme, but if you want to start a serious website and you don’t have high programming skills you should seriously think to use a theme framework. [Read the rest of this entry…]

When you start a blog you have to make a plan. A plan contain milestones and strategies used to reach the milestones. The milestones should be based on your capabilities.

Traffic is the most important for you blog. If you don’t have anyone to see your articles means you are wasting time on writing them. Some well known strategies for blogs to get visitors are: commenting on other blogs, social networking, get in touch with other bloggers, guest posting. They will all bring you traffic.

What about search engines ? Probably you already get traffic from search engines, but you are not too impressed. Your traffic comes from very specific queries that are searched once per month. The truth is that the more keywords a search query have the more targeted is that visitor. [Read the rest of this entry…]

The long waited new wordpress version is finally out. After months of announcements, testings and fixing the bug-free version is out.

What wordpress 3.0 has new ? A new default theme, menu management, wordpress MU integration and a lighter admin panel. [Read the rest of this entry…]

The final version of WordPress 3.0 was not released yet, but the release candidate version version number 3 is available, this means not much will change only some bug fixes if there are any.

I tested the Beta Version few weeks ago, sharing my first thougths on wordpress 3, but today i started to implement WordPress 3 in websites i make, and i will share my second thoughts with you. [Read the rest of this entry…]

The main argument that all take into when deciding if to go with a CMS or to build something from scratch is the software limitations and scalability. It is true, but the main argument to chose a CMS instead of building everything from scratch is the huge amount of time that we save using the software.

This is applied not only to CMS but to any other kind of websites. The truth is that everything can be customized and configured, but some software’s make this very very hard so at the end time saved to use a CMS can be lost when trying to customize it. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Last days i was searching for a theme for an informational website that i want to build. I’m looking to build something more like a news website: a lot of information about a specific topic where visitors can read only what they want.

First i searched for themes related to the website topic but i was unable to find one to fit my requirements so i searched wider. Then i found what i can call the perfect wordpress theme for news or informational website. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Being organized have important benefits to our work. It is proven by studies and you can experiment this instantly. You will notice that you are more efficient when you work organized.

Sometime, if you organize very well your work and know in every moment what you have to do can make you feel like a robot, who does only things he was programmed to and you might get bored and lose interest for what you do. Sometime is better to let a considerable amount of unorganized work so you won’t lose the focus.

In your work you have to deal with a lot of other things that can get you confused and have a hard time handling. For example: receipts, business cards and other paper work. Have you ever taught to organize the secondary things you do in your work ? I have the solution fot you. [Read the rest of this entry…]

The nature of humans is in a continuous searching for convenience. We buy stuff online because we don’t want to go to the store, we use the TV remote, etc. We like to be comfortable. In business we don’t call it convenience, instead we call it efficiency. The real problem is where we draw the line between convenience and efficiency.

For example most people are trying to figure out if it is better to start a self hosted blog or a blogspot blog. The decision you take don’t mean you are more convenient or more efficient. The solution is how you think this.

The convenient will say: “If i go with blogspot i don’t have to take care of all that domain and hosting related problems that blows my head”, while the efficient business man will say: “It is better to start with blogspot so i can focus on content and marketing instead of taking care of other stuff right now and i can move later when i have things settled down”.

The same answer but different thinking. The problem with blogspot and self-hosted wordpress has been discussed over and over all over the web. There is not an universal “best choice”. The best choice is the one that fits you best.

Something is knocking at our doors that will drive blogosphere into a long debate is the new integration of WordPress MU in wordpress 3.0 .

Many bloggers have more than one blog and they will ask at least once the question: “it is better to use the same installation for more blogs”. The answer of this question is not universal, but has a lot to do with convenience and effectiveness.

While most convenience users will use the same installation for more blogs, sooner or later, this is not the best options for all. If you think at your blogs as business you may want at any time to see which is its value and if you sell right now how much you can get. In this situation you may have some problems selling it, because you may have to spend much more time to separate the blog from the main installation than to install a new wordpress blog.

On the other side, if you run 50+ blogs there can be no gain installing wordpress 50 times, but you can also think that the time you install wordpress ( under 5 minutes ) is nothing compared to the time to tweak the template, to customize the seo aspects, to write about and other pages, to create profiles for analytics accounts, etc.

It may be a tough decision but if you think right you can get the best solution that fits you. Remember: think ahead and think about efficiency.

Premium templates are usually designed for specific uses of WordPress, not only blogs. For example: landing pages, consultation website, presentation website.

Another aspect of premium themes is that they have advanced options that you can change directly from your administration panel. They have advanced features meant to avoid template programming.

If you want to get things done faster then a premium template is the right choice for you. [Read the rest of this entry…]