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Business Website Builder

September 10th, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in Phase 1, WordPress Hosting
My main activity, currently, is developing my business website builder wizard. I’ve added a new page to keep track of development. Though it is a long way from finished, I hope you find some of the development information useful.

I have called the first part Essential Plug-ins. These are ones that any self-respecting WordPress web business needs. Some may have alternatives. I have selected ones that I know work. If you know of alternatives that you think are better, please let me know.

I noticed one or two that I rely on, but haven’t mentioned in this blog, so I will mention them now.

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Build A Business Web Site

September 6th, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in Phase 1, Web Business Publishing, WordPress Hosting
As I build a business web site at Shrewdies.com, it acts as a great reinforcing exercise to test and improve the plug-ins collection for my WordPress installation wizard.

Today I found a better forms handler, reminded myself about the importance of backups, and found a potential method for making plug-in management much easier.

Contact Pages are important for any web site, but crucial for a credible web business site. My current method works fine on standard contact forms, but to build a business web site, you also need surveys, polls, and all manner of related feedback mechanisms.

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Hosting Links Web Site

August 31st, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in Web Business Promotion

My hosting links article prompted me to add a page describing my link policy.

I find these policy pages a tad tedious, but a necessity. They add weight to your website (when was the last time you saw policy pages on a spammy scraper site?). More importantly, they immediately let visitors know where you stand on various issues.

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Hosting Links

August 29th, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | 1 Comment | Filed in Old Web Business Posts, Web Business Promotion

Looking for hosting links sounds like a good idea – but what will you do when you find them?

Many webmasters fall into the trap of trying to build as many links as they can. A common way to do this is to search for links or add url, or similar, together with the keyword or keyphrase that you want a link from (or want to exchange links with).

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Ultimate Tag Warrior URL Rewriting Fixed In A Click

August 22nd, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in WordPress Hosting

UTW is a fine, well respected plug-in, but Ultimate Tag Warrior URL rewriting has driven me crazy.

I need my WordPress Tags, and I want them right. I started writing about them in my last post, and I have plenty more to say – mainly from a site management point of view, but also many technical tips.

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WordPress Tags

August 21st, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in Phase 1, Web Business Publishing, WordPress Hosting

Standard WordPress does not have tags, but there are many plug-ins to help you apply them. Those that I have seen were born in the days when all webmasters looked to keywords to boost their rankings in search engines.

I discuss the merits, or otherwise, of SEO on my web business site. Keywords for SEO are generally recognized as being unimportant, to the extent that free WordPress.com sites do not have them. However, there is an alternative, (more…)

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WordPress Hosting Theme

August 16th, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in Web Business Design, WordPress Hosting
WordPress FormatWordPress Hosting Theme 2010 Update.

The article below is out-of-date.
 

You can wait until you have much more content before applying a theme.

I prefer to get it done near the start, partly in case early visitors get disillusioned by a bland interface, partly because I really dislike the navigation options on the default theme, but mainly because I like to get a feel for the site I am working on and identify with it from the beginning.

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Business Web Hosting Links

August 16th, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in Phase 1, WordPress Hosting

Creating a blogroll of business web hosting links is the final step in my initial content package.

My installation wizard will package all the starting content, customized for the intended site concept. Doing this manually takes a few hours – the wizard will do it in minutes.

After this step, you can simply continue building content, but the Internet would be a boring place if all WordPress sites used the default theme. I will discuss themes later, along with some more plug-ins that are crucial (or at least helpful) in hosting your web business.

Before that, a few short notes about links.

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Business Web Hosting Categories

August 15th, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in Phase 3, Web Business Design, Web Business Publishing

I have already created 4 posts, but all these are labeled ‘Uncategorized’. This is a complete waste of time. At the very least we want a catchall category that reflects the key site concept.

In this case, the key site concept is Business Web Hosting. You should change the default category to your key site concept. In WordPress, this is in Manage Categories, and my installation wizard will automatically pick this up and change it.

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Web Service Hosting Email Policy

August 14th, 2007 by Keith from shrewdies | No Comments | Filed in Old Web Business Posts, Phase 1, WordPress Hosting

My web service hosting email policy is simple – I do not publish an email address.

But communication is vital to a thriving web business, so how can I keep in touch with visitors.

The answer is my contact page. A vital early page for any website. Just a few details, and a form so you can get in touch with me.

I love to receive questions and opinions from all my readers. Standard WordPress allows comments by default, but sometimes (more…)

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