So you’ve designed and programmed a website, and you want to know how to get people to visit.  This is a common request from clients: “I want to be #1 on Google”.  These days, that is easier said than done.  SEO is definitely more work than creating the actual website.  This article will by no means be exhaustive, it is just a recap of what I have done for this site and what I plan to do in the future.  Hopefully it will give some of you some ideas.  Please …

I had been having a problem Digging articles on my WordPress blog using the Digg Me! button. I’d click the button and Digg would send me to a URL submission page with the error message:
“Please enter a properly formatted URL. Thanks.”
When I searched message boards, the solution was editing the the Bad Behavior plugin. Unfortunately, I was not using the plugin.
So I contacted the people at Digg, who were extremely quick and helpful. I was able to manually submit the URL to Digg after clearing my browser …

So you’ve downloaded the latest version of Wordpress and uploaded it to your site. You’ve looked through all of the included themes and you can’t find anything that’s to your liking. So you start looking for a theme elsewhere on the web. I’ll use a theme called Arthemia2 as an example.
Adding the theme to your server
Simply extract the theme from the zip file and upload it to the /wp-content/themes directory.  Then, head to the admin panel and click on the thumbnail for your theme by going to …

So as you may have noticed, I have added Twitter updates in the sidebar.  My twitter name is jay_wfu06, so feel free to follow my tweets, and I’ll follow you as well.
Like many people I have talked to, I was originally very skeptical of Twitter.  What are the benefits of twitter?  What makes it different from AIM, gmail, or Facebook away messages or statuses?
Here is what I came up with:

Instead of treating/viewing your twitter update as a status update, treat it as a miniblog.  You have 140 characters to say …

Now that I have switched my site to WordPress, I can finally concentrate on getting freelance work without worrying about my (lack of) portfolio.

I have read on several blogs that the hardest project for a designer is a portfolio.  I was determined to prove this claim to be false, but to no avail.  It really is easier to use a WordPress theme (especially this nice clean Arthemia2 theme - not quite a blog, not quite a magazine, exactly what I was looking for).
I am hoping that WordPress will prove to …