Feed Your Blog
When business owners plan a website to promote their company, sell products or just reinforce their brand, they disregard the most important benefit of WordPress. Yes, you can update it yourself by adding new photos, a slide show or edit text, maybe even update an...
Create a WordPress Website for your Family
Several of my customers have used WordPress for their club or hobby websites. One is the Framingham Garden Club. This group lists their seasonal activities and garden photos. They even have some instructional pages and a members only area. Another is a woman who loves...
Search Engine Optimization is not a mystery
Internet companies that specialize in raising a site's placement on Google have been charging a pretty penny for their services. They claim that without their expensive services, your site won't get in the organic area of search engines—the first page. Alternatively,...
Inner Source Website
The Inner Source Healing Center in Malvern, Pennsylvania is celebrating a new season and a new website this Fall. Perugi Design was delighted to work with a former high school classmate and her partner to create a website that they can update themselves. In business...
How to design a logo
Logos are probably the most difficult of all graphic design projects. Fortunately, there is a right way to go about designing one. Years ago, I took some independent graphic design classes with Dietmar Winkler at Southeastern Massachusetts University. I was living in...
Online based marketing software is here
I get a lot of calls from salespeople trying to sell me what I already know is going to be overly expensive and not worth my time. So the conversation stops before it starts. But recently, for some reason, I agreed to make an appointment to talk to a representative of...
The importance of a good portrait
I finally succeeded in having my husband take some decent photographs of me. I had several that I had been using: one for the website, one for Facebook and another for Twitter and Linked In. But they were mediocre at best. I'd been noticing great shots of my twitter...
Being strategic in a competitive environment
When business owners plan out their marketing strategy (and it inevitably includes redesigning their website), they are not sure where to turn. There are many options available to them in the huge marketplace of the internet. When they try Yahoo or Go Daddy website...
It’s Time to Update WordPress
Now that you are adding posts to your website on a regular basis, it's important to take notice of your plugins. On the side bar on the dashboard you will see the word Plugins and possibly a little black dot with a number inside. This tells you you have something to...
Two new sites to celebrate!
Fredia Woolf can celebrate today. She deserves it. She and I worked very hard to get her site just right. We used the same "Dotted" theme that I also used for DBM Catalyst, but in this case we added quite a few options in the design of the pages. The site is...