Posted on November 7, 2008 by optimizeitdesigns
It depends on what you want for your website. Free and simple or fabulous and advanced?
www.WordPress.com
Pros:
Free
No technical knowledge required
Takes care of spam for you
Takes care of SEO* for you
Cons:
Limited theme designs
Limited widget features
Bad for SEO (WordPress takes the credit instead of you)
www.WordPress.org
Pros:
Install a fabulous theme
Unlimited widget feature plugins
Lots more control
You take credit for SEO
Cons:
More expensive [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2008 by optimizeitdesigns
This is one of the most frequent questions I get these days.
Sounds like a simple question, but it can get really confusing and complicated. If you’re willing to fork in some money and time, you should be able to do it in no time.
But first, you have to decide what type of blog you are looking for. [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by optimizeitdesigns
If you want to learn how to make vidoes or media for your business, here’s a great program to sign up to:
www.messagemastery.com
You can check out their video on their website.
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Posted on April 6, 2008 by optimizeitdesigns
We all know that if you don’t rank on the first page in Google searches, most likely many surfers are not going to find your website, but how do you get on the first page of Google?
Search Engine Optimization 101
Well, there are lots of ways to do it that require hard work, but I’ll give [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2008 by optimizeitdesigns
(The photo is fuzzy on purpose! )
Have you ever come across an amazing photo on the internet and then try to use that on your sales literature or printed material? You paste it into your MS Word flyer and come to find out that it’s too small. So what you do? You stretch [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2008 by optimizeitdesigns
Do you wonder where I get these beautiful photos from? They are actually free on the internet and they come in handy when designing your website, flyer or postcard so I thought you might find this site useful:
www.sxc.hu
In sha Allah I plan to write some more soon so please check back. In the meantime, I added [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2008 by optimizeitdesigns
We’ll that would be easy to answer if there was such a thing as typical. But there’s not. Maybe in the fast-food industry. Or the music industry. But not in the web design industry.
So, the e-mails from random people go like this,
“I would like to have a website done. How much do you charge?”
It’s kinda like walking into Rogers [...]
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