From the monthly archives: February 2009

Taking wordpress mobile.

On February 27, 2009 By

The growth of the smart-phone market has made mobile web surfing a part of daily life.  For this reason, it’s increasingly important that your web content is easily accessable for the mobile market.  If budget weren’t an issue, I would recommend creating dedicated mobile applications for the major mobile platforms (iphone, windows mobile, blackberry, [...]

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Installing WordPress for Beginners

On February 24, 2009 By

Today I though I’d walk you through a typical wordpress install, as well as a little about how wordpress works. Though some web experience and tech-savvy is helpful, I believe that virtually anyone who has any knowledge of how the web works should be able to figure out a wordpress installation.

Note: [...]

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WordPress Week!

On February 23, 2009 By

I’ve decided to dedicate this next week’s posts to my favorite website platform, wordpress. A few months ago wordpress 2.7 was released and I think that with the updates it has truly crossed the chasm into the mainstream.

I began using wordpress during the 2.6 release era and I was fairly impressed with the [...]

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WordPress – Everything you always wanted to know.

On February 16, 2009 By

What is wordpress?

WordPress is an open source website and blog management tool that is extremely popular right now.  WordPress was first released as a blogging tool in 2003, and has since evolved into a full featured content management system with amazing functionality. It is coded in .php and runs on a mySql database, [...]

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Stay the Course

On February 14, 2009 By

It’s sometimes hard being a serious blogger, especially if you track your traffic religiously.  I find that the old George H.W. Bush adage of ‘stay the course’ is the best advice.  I’ve learned to forgive myself for not always writing the most compelling content.  At the end of the day, it’s much more important to [...]

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Papa's Got a 'Brand' New Bag

On February 13, 2009 By

If you’re a regular visitor to Indy Awesome, you might have noticed that I’ve changed things up a bit with a new design.  I think a new look was a bit overdue.  When I put together the old theme, I had just begun learning the ins and outs of the wordpress platform (that’s the blogging [...]

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Is Dell hurting for 'search' visability?

On February 12, 2009 By

In a recent post in his ‘blogging best practices blog’ Chris Baggot discussed the issue of Dell Computer’s recent loss of market share to Heweltt Packard.  He suggested that focusing on a search-oriented strategy involving his company’s corporate blogging software would help them regain the lead.  He also claims that a social [...]

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The biggest reason you MIGHT need to join Twitter.

On February 10, 2009 By

Okay is everybody ready?  I’m giving away my best pearl of wisdom here so pay attention…

If they’re talking about you on Twitter, then you NEED to be on Twitter

It’s that simple.  Go to search.twitter.com, enter your name, your company’s name, your slogan; anything that might indicate that people are talking about you.  Then, [...]

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Blogworthy?

On February 10, 2009 By

I was thumbing through the Indianapolis Star last Sunday when I came across an Oscar Meyer add claiming that their new Deli Creations Flat bread sandwiches were ‘blogworthy’.  Interesting, I though.  A product that was worth writing about and talking about… or is it?

I was dying to find out if [...]

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Yahoo needs to think Socially

On February 6, 2009 By

I was reading Robert Scoble’s blog today and he was comparing the release of Google’s new service Latitude with Yahoo’s new service searchpad.  I’m not going to go into the specifics of what these services do (all the tech blogs are sure to cover it, this isn’t really a tech blog), but I would like [...]

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