Wordpress has to be the most popular platforms out there when it comes to websites. All of the sites I own run on Wordpress and most of the sites I design at Look Social are also run on Wordpress. Working in Wordpress is quite easy, but there are a few plugins that can make it even easier, especially if you are designing a website.
WordPress 101: Plugins & Themes
Welcome to my second post in a series I am calling WordPress 101. In my first post I went over why to choose WordPress. Now I had thought about doing a post on how to install WordPress, but they have that covered quite well already. Also many hosting companies like BlueHost offer 1-click installs for…
WordPress 101: Why Choose WordPress
Wordpress is quite known by now. If you don’t know what Wordpress is it is powering this blog! It is a content management system that was first released in 2003 and makes it extremely easy for anyone to start a website, manage content and more. Many of my previous websites were made using flat file systems or were hand-coded and that just takes a lot of time! Now every one of my websites are based off of Wordpress! So why should you use Wordpress? Here are a few reasons…
New Year, New Blog Design
Well as you can see I have a new layout here on my blog! The old layout was on the site for around 3 years, which is quite a long time. Over time it had got cluttered and just seemed boring and out dated to me. Also for a time I had thought about making…
Pittsburgh Bucket List Launched
I’m sure many of you have heard of bucket list’s. They are lists of things you would want to do before you die or before you move away etc. After doing some research I found there was not really a bucket list that was specific to Pittsburgh. So I decided to make a Pittsburgh Bucket…
I Hate My Roommate Gets a Facelift
It has been a little less than a year since I launched I Hate My Roommate with my friend Jack. The layout we had before was very simple and we only really put the site up as something fun and considering my current roommate situation at the time. The site has got some traction and…
Rethinking 2010
This year started off just like every year with the trip to Vegas for CES. That trip is a great way to start the year and gives me great motivation, but this year I didn’t seem as motivated from it. I’m really not sure why but starting in February I really started to ask myself the question, What am I doing with my life? I know running ThinkComputers is a full time job, but it just seemed like I could be doing more with my life. As I said before I started watching the Random Show and because of that I decided to pick up Tim Ferris’s book The Four Hour Work Week
My 2009 Year in Review
Wow it’s 2010! Not only a new year, but a new decade! This past year was a very good year for me, there were all kinds of ups, downs, and in between’s. If you have a blog you know how great it is that you are able to look back on things you have done and be able to see the good times, reflect on your mistakes, and just remember some things you may have forgot. So here is my 2009 year in review, hope you all enjoy it!
ThinkComputers now on WordPress!
You notice I have not updated this blog in quite sometime. That is because over the past 2 months I have been working on ThinkComputers like a mad man! ThinkComputers has been run on a flat-file system since I started it back in 2001. We used a simple PHP script to pull pages and help…
SEO 101 with Jami Broom
While at PodCamp Pittsburgh 4 this past weekend I was able to attend Jami Broom’s session on SEO for WordPress. Jami is an Internet Marketing Strategist at ClicksToMySite.com. I already know a lot about SEO, but I figured I would sit in on the session to not only learn more, but share what I learned…