by charliezegers | Apr 29, 2011 | Uncategorized, WordPress
As I often tell clients – one of the best things about developing with WordPress is the fact that there’s a free, publicly-available plugin for just about anything you’d ever want to do with the average web site. Of course, the developers that create...
by charliezegers | Apr 21, 2011 | E-commerce, SEO, Uncategorized, WordPress
One of the big phone companies in my area has been running an incessant ad campaign for their website builder service. The gist of it is, “Unless your company is on the web, it might as well be invisible.” Thing is, that’s not actually true. And the...
by charliezegers | Apr 4, 2011 | Services, Uncategorized
Sagamore Hill – the home of Theodore Roosevelt – is one of the prime field trip destinations for Long Island school kids. Between school trips and cub scout trips and other outings, I may have spent more time there than any member of the Roosevelt family....
by charliezegers | Mar 15, 2011 | Recommended Products, Uncategorized, WordPress
The good folks at Automattic have released a version of the Jetpack plugin – a suite of Internet goodies used by WordPress.org sites – for self-hosted WordPress sites. Running Jetpack on your own WordPress installation is a “best of both...
by charliezegers | Mar 15, 2011 | SEO, Uncategorized
Joost de Valk has an interesting post today on why it’s a bad idea to auto-generate meta-descriptions for your blog posts: The reason I hate this “auto generation” idea so much, especially for content sites, is that it makes people think that SEO is...
by charliezegers | Mar 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Sports nostalgia buff (and ctzdesign client) Jon Loomer – the brains behind PastKast.com – and the associated Twitter feed @Tweetsfrom1982 – were profiled this week by OnMilwaukee.com.
by charliezegers | Feb 28, 2011 | Services, Uncategorized
The latest-and-greatest version of WordPress is out, and according to the oversized odometer counter thingy, has already been downloaded well over 1,000,000 times. (Note to WordPress guys: Congrats… but The Social Network-style odometers are now officially a...
by charliezegers | Feb 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
World Autism Awareness Day is April 2. Spread the word by including one of these banner ads from Autism Speaks on your web site. Need a hand? Let me know – I’d be happy to help, and for this, there’s no charge.
by charliezegers | Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized, WordPress
Just assisted in the re-launch of The Savage Word – a news/politics blog. Because the site contains text — and little else — we looked for a WordPress theme that features really beautiful typography. We’re using Smooth by Benoit Burgener....
by charliezegers | Feb 15, 2011 | SEO, Services, Uncategorized
Until recently, JC Penney was the most dominant retailer in search engine optimization – SEO, in geek-speak – showing up in Google’s coveted number-one spot for all sorts of keywords, from “Samsonite luggage” to “area rugs” to...
