I see many WordPress users mixing up the roles of a WordPress plugin with a theme (kind of like mixing business with pleasure) on a regular basis without knowing what they are doing. If you don't know why WordPress invented the concept of plugins and themes, then this article is for … [Read more...] about WordPress System Integration 101
A Bucket Full Of Objects — Amazon S3
Amazon is not just about books anymore. Since 2001, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has found ways of deriving income from the excess capacity of the network infrastructure used to run their own e-commerce business. One of these products, the Simple Storage Service (S3) allows users to store their … [Read more...] about A Bucket Full Of Objects — Amazon S3
Monetizing a Site Through AdSense
There is a lot of misconception about Google AdSense; many marketers see it as one of the most rudimentary ways to monetize your site. As such many markets prefer to build affiliate sites, spend an age writing sales driven content, building email lists to try and sell on the back end, but the most … [Read more...] about Monetizing a Site Through AdSense
CreAction: A New Formula For Blog Success
Action Trumps Everything is a book about a new principle called CreAction, which is how entrepreneurs balance thought and action in the face of an uncertain future. This principle can be used by anyone, entrepreneur or not, to help guide yourself though the good, the bad, and the unexpected in … [Read more...] about CreAction: A New Formula For Blog Success
How to Handle Negative Comments
If you run an online community service where others are encouraged to participate with their own thoughts, you're sure to come across negative comments throughout your blog or forum's life. While negative comments may be one of your greatest fears as a social media participant, they are a reality. … [Read more...] about How to Handle Negative Comments
6 SEO Strategies That Can Generate Highly Targeted Traffic
Developing SEO strategies that can drive an immense amount of traffic to your site within a month is not an easy task, especially if you want your site’s visitors to convert into profits. Generating highly targeted traffic or visitors that have the intent of availing the services or products that … [Read more...] about 6 SEO Strategies That Can Generate Highly Targeted Traffic
Playing In PayPal’s Sandbox
Hello, is this thing on? Many of us who have, or are in the process of launching, e-commerce sites have wondered about this at one time or another. The most common way of finding out is to make a test purchase of $1 or less, to see if everything works. At about 35 cents a try (in PayPal fees), … [Read more...] about Playing In PayPal’s Sandbox
JQuery: An introduction
As a web developer we all are familiar with JavaScript. Sometimes we need complex functions to implement our business logic. It is very easy to write complex functions with a few lines of code using JavaScript libraries. The JQuery library, referred to from here on simply as JQuery, is an … [Read more...] about JQuery: An introduction
Blogspiration: Finding New Blog Topics
It's easy to find blogs that are, for all intents and purposes, "dead." Plenty of people feel inspired to start using a blogging service or a social networking service (especially Twitter), then blow it in the follow-through; the blog gets a handful of posts, then the user loses interest in their … [Read more...] about Blogspiration: Finding New Blog Topics
Stress Management Tips for Online Shop Admins
I received the following question from one of my WP Membership Plugin customers the other night. I decided to write a post on this as I think this will equally help an online shop admin or a blogger in general. "I only have a handful of customers and my stress level goes through the roof from … [Read more...] about Stress Management Tips for Online Shop Admins