Posts Tagged ‘wordpress websites’
search engine optimization meeting
I am working with Darlene Juliana who owns the Blue Ridge Manor Bed and Breakfast in Cana Virginia. We are going over some search engine strategies and she has fed me a delicious grilled cheese and roasted red pepper sammich with my favorite soup–New England Clam Chowder!
She has created many inbound links from various regional sources. Our main goal now is to get her blogging, facebooking and tweeting often.
Tune in for more later….and come to Cana and stay with Darlene at Blue Ridge Manor BnB. It’s in the country but only a few miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway and just a few from Mount Airy NC.
cool things….i feel like hot stuff
Maybe it’s my third cup of strong dark coffee. Maybe it’s the head-boppin’ hip hop rap I’ve got playing on my 50 Cent http://pandora.com station. Maybe it’s the four websites I made some headway on yesterday while my mom did me a solid and entertained my child all day. But I am feelin’ GOOD today. And it’s even cloudy outside. Usually rainy dark days send me spiraling into a quagmire of despair.
Yesterday I made some headway on a new project http://withoutperfume.com. You can’t see it now. It has an Under Construction message on it. At first when my client asked me to put up the UC message, I wasn’t sure how I would do that without taking down the WordPress platform and deleting all the design work I had worked so hard on. But I did a search for WordPress plugins and again I was so thrilled to find answers to my needs. There were actually plugins that can display a logo, and email collection and under construction message while I continue to build the site in the background! How about that!
Next I got all the info transferred over from http://trinklemansion.com to the site I am building at http://mitone.com/wptest/. See, Trinkle Mansion wants to continue hosting her own site. At first I didn’t know how I would build it and then transfer it all without losing all my work in the database. Lo and Behold tho, wordpress has an EXPORT SITE feature! How awesome is that? It’s like every need my customers have I am being able to answer and provide just because WordPress is that awesome! So, as soon as TM sees the work, hopefully we’ll be able to transfer everything around.
Then I updated http://terriajudge.com and created her email newsletter and print brochure. This is a regular monthly gig. Made all the easier with WordPress. LOL. Added some more info to http://wholesoulpshycic.com.
Then I designed a better template for http://spookyworldusa.com with some updated graphics. Should be putting that up later today. Have some more work to do on http://pacabella.com. Robin reports much love for her WordPress ecommerce site.
So bottom line….I finished the HOST brochure…coming to a close on some of these recent web gigs. It’s time to place your order for a website! I am also talking with Crossroads here in Galax about hosting a WordPress training seminar….so if you need a website and have been looking for something classy and easy to manage, it’s time to call me before I get too busy again!
Have a swell day!
Oh! Almost forgot. I have a Social Networking Tip of the Day. You know you need to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. But how much time do you spend posting a message at all three places? Enter http://hootsuite.com. It’s free. You make one post through the HootSuite platform. It posts to all of your Social Networking sites. OMG! AND!! Get this…will see if it works…I also entered my RSS feed from this blog and supposedly it will send an update to all my networks that I have made an update at this site. Now how cool is that?? And if you do want an upgraded version, it’s only $5.99 a month for the upgrade. Two hoots for HootSuite!
heading into the home stretch
I must have reduced myself to utter goofiness for I am now using baseball analogy to summarize my workload. LOL .Anyway, indeed, I am coming to the close of the great big Blue Ridge Host brochure. Putting final tweaks on the map today. Sending proof off for final approval tonight. Then its nose to the grindstone to finish out some of these websites on my plate. I love it! I went for several years not enjoying web dev as much as I did when I first learned how in the late 90′s. But now, man….can’t get enough of WordPress. Woo Hoo!! If you need a website, send me an email! I’ll be able to take on new projects in about 2 weeks. (Can you believe I am booked out for two weeks?! Man sometimes it’s time consuming to be by yourself.)
do blondes have more fun?
Well I am sitting here with tin foil in my hair, head stuck under a steam helmet. Do I take care of my hair so I appear more put together and business-like? Do I wait for two hours for such beauty treatment for professional image-or is it to catch the eye of the male of my species? Lol. Well maybe both. In the context of this post I am polishing my professional image as well as recommending another business. The girls at Raffles in Mayberry Mall in Mount Airy are awesome. Drop in and spruce up your own image!
On the flip side, I’ve been brunette for far too long and decided to go blonde again. Not getting my mani/pedi today. Going to wait till next week for that. I highly recommend the nail place beside of Raffles. Those guys are awesome.
Ok well time to go. This morning I practically finished http://terriajudge.com. Also worked on a menu for a new restaurant coming into Galax. Also did some more work on the Blue Ridge Host brochure. It’s almost finished! Speaking of the Real Estate Website development project for Terria, I am even more super pleased with WordPress. Developers have created Real Estate plugins..on Terria’s page, I have added in a whole section with mortgage calculators, interest rate reports and more, plus I have added in a plugin that manages her listings. It has specific areas to list the price, mls, bedroom and bathroom counts, acreage, address and I can even plugin a google map to map the address. WordPress is so easy to use, and still its value runs so deep. It seems for any business, there are plugins that help increase the usability of the website. And even with customizing graphics and adding in content, I can put together a website so much faster than when I used to hand code my own, that I can charge much less for my services than I used to. A site like http://terriajudge.com used to bill for about $1200, now I only charge $600. So if you need a real estate website, or a website for whatever business you’re in, I know we can create the perfect site for you. Give me a call!
UPDATE July 29
In other news, I took some self portraits of my hair. I know you were just itching to find out what it looked like! LOL.
training night!
Just got through designing an awesome WordPress layout for Vicky and Stephen who are moving here from Kansas!! Don’t have it up yet because the domain has not propigated, but tomorrow, check out Haven Farm.
new web customer: Trinkle Mansion B&B
Busy weekend at Trinkle Mansion B&B
Just got back from Wytheville, VA. Met with Patti, who owns the Trinkle Mansion Bed and Breakfast there. We will be converting her existing website from straight HTML to the wordpress platform. She practiced a wordpress post here on my website this morning. Uploaded the picture here and wrote:
“Full house this weekend and just getting started on laundry and readying rooms for tonight’s guests.”
She agreed wordpress is quite an easy backend management solution to her website needs. I’ll teach her how to do lots of other “stuff” so she can make quick updates to her site at any time, but the graphics she has at her existing http://trinklemansion.com can stay about the same. I’ll rearrange a few things and set her site up to look pretty much the same. Exciting stuff getting websites converted to wordpress! So easy to manage!
OMG y’all
Oh my, I am on cloud nine right now. About 2 weeks ago, I decided I would just forget about trying to find a boyfriend and just focus on my work. I think I hit a eureka moment….redesigning my own website. Finding all kinds of cool plugins to incorporate facebook, twitter, and my pics from facebook…social networking, photos and blogs oh my! Anyway, I haven’t been this excited since I had Lacy…course I was more scared and in pain then…okay haven’t been this excited since I lost my first tooth in kindergarten and thought the tooth fairy would bring me riches beyond belief!
new website started
Today I finished up the rack card for Wolf Creek Haven a primitive camping retreat in Ararat VA. We got started on the website as far as design discussion and name registration and installation of wordpress was concerned. Not bad for a days work. Will post again when I get the graphics finished.
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