Thanks to Ovaleye for hosting this online Back to Business Building Summit last week. It was a lot of fun being a part of the expert team of presenters. Here is my presentation in it’s entirety. After watching please head over to my Solutions page if you would like any help setting up your mobile website.
It was brought to my attention by a commenter on my Feedburner post that my email signup form was not working (Thanks Heidi @ Farm, Home & Garden! I owe you big time.) I did find it strange that no one was signing up to receive my posts by email but I just chalked it up to low interest. As it turned out the plugin that I selected to integrate with my MailChimp list was simply doing nothing when the Submit button was clicked. So I spent a good couple hours reviewing Wordpress plugins and testing them out before I found the perfect combination of tools to make it easy for readers to subscribe to future blog posts and keep them coming back to my site.
Even though this post provides steps for Wordpress.org specific sites, the information is useful for all formats of websites as there are several tools out there that will perform the same results.
Seattle Art Museum hosted this year’s Wordcamp Seattle on Saturday May 19 and the event was nothing less than amazing! As a growing enthusiast of Wordpress, building all of my client’s websites in this platform over the last couple years, I was in web design heaven at Wordcamp. Honestly I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect at this “conference”. I have been to many different conferences/seminars over the years and they all were basically the same: large vendor booths, extra charge for food, large crowded rooms, very expensive and over commercialized. This was far from the case at Wordcamp. What other conference can you go to that provides a delicious lunch, a free t-shirt, a “happiness” bar (experts – no booze), fantastic speakers from all over all for only $20? The event was unpretentious, unsalesy, and unassuming. It was great to be in a room of beginner users learning techniques for their single website to full blown super smart developers who could probably build a kick-ass Wordpress site from scratch in an hour. I was somewhere in the middle: the Power User/Designer which was the category of talks that I attended most of the day.
After we gathered for opening remarks from the head organizer, Seattle Wordpress expert Bob Dunn, the show was on.
