About

In the past I have made a living by picking grapes, catching chickens, tossing turkeys (frozen), cutting vinyl, designing logos, teaching college, writing manuals, taking photographs, giving lectures, pushing pixels, selling radios and flipping burgers.

For the past 15 years I have been a web technology specialist and a web master. In short, I help to make the Internet work better and faster for my clients. My job is to decrease costs, increase traffic and build better technology businesses

As a consultant, I travel throughout the world to work on IT projects. I am a Canadian citizen with authorization to work throughout the European Union and qualify for a United States TN work visa for consulting and employment in the US.

About Me

Christopher RossMy name is Christopher Ross, I am a web technology specialist. For the past 15 years I’ve been building web sites and consulting on corporate technology policies for businesses around the world. I’m not working on the web, I like to cycle and travel. You can find me on FaceBook and LinkedIn or hanging out with my two kids, my wife and our dim but adorable dog.

About My Web site

thisismyurl.com is my online home. The site is designed to be a central repository and resource for people with an interest in the Internet and those who like to make the web work. I built it (and manage it) using WordPress.

Consulting Services

Throughout the year, I am available as a consultant for organizations who want to improve their web presence or build better web sites.

Please feel free to contact me.

Pages of Interest

Using the power of technology and a randomization script, I've selected a few articles that may interest you:

Blog Roundup for the 16th of June 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 16th of June

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Blog Roundup for the 24th of January 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 24th of January

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Blog Roundup for the 16th of January 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 16th of January

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Can you put up a web site for less than $100?

As a web professional, I love nothing more than opening my email first thing in the morning and having somebody ask me if I can build them a web site for $100.

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Free WordPress Theme - A Night in Paris

A Night in Paris is a two-column WordPress theme with a three-column lower section.

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Blog Roundup for the 9th of October 2008

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of October

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Blog Roundup for the 12th of April 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 12th of April

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Blog Roundup for the 1st of July 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 1st of July

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Blog Roundup for the 8th of July 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 8th of July

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Getaway Graphics Business Cards

The Getaway Graphics business card design was created to be a cost effective marketing tool. I did this in the summer of 2005 for my own self promotion.

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WordPress SEO Tips - The Title Tag

Optimizing your Title tag will help increase your business.

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Blog Roundup for the 28th of April 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 28th of April

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Blog Roundup for the 27th of September 2008

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 27th of September

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Blog Roundup for the 11th of April 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 11th of April

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Blog Roundup for the 25th of September 2008

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 25th of September

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Using WordPress for Business

Ask an average IT manager the cost of a quality CMS you’ll hear numbers ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars.

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Loyal American Kids

Years ago, I had a web site called Planet Bush where I posted a lot of fun anti-Bush materials. After I got a job at DFAIT I thought it would be a good idea to take it down but I kept some of my favorite design pieces.

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Blog Roundup for the 27th of February 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 27th of February

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Blog Roundup for the 2nd of October 2008

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 2nd of October

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Blog Roundup for the 20th of December 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 20th of December

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How can you make $500 a month part time from the web?

Using the method below, I easily make $500 each month from my own web blogs and it’s really pretty easy. I spend about 10 hours a month working on my sites, you can do the math.

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Blog Roundup for the 29th of May 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 29th of May

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Reflective image effect in Adobe Fireworks

Because there’s more to the world than just Photoshop.

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Blog Roundup for the 4th of April 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 4th of April

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Blog Roundup for the 6th of November 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 6th of November

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Blog Roundup for the 28th of July 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 28th of July

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Top Ten Features of a Good Web Site

A great little article I found in my old archives.

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Blog Roundup for the 11th of October 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 11th of October

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Win an iPod Nano

Let me send you a brand new iPod from Apple, for writing about my web site.

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Blog Roundup for the 25th of November 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 25th of November

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Blog Roundup for the 23rd of February 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 23rd of February

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When will Google use the iPhone’s GPS for AdSense?

Frankly, I’m lazy and the ads served up from Google are great, they help me get what I want faster.

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Blog Roundup for the 26th of October 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 26th of October

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Directory Tips for Web Designers

Building a great web site is about a lot more than putting together a bunch of text or graphics on a page, it’s critical that a web site be manageable and expandable if you want it to work properly in the future.

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Adapting my holiday logo rotator for WordPress

Making my holiday rotating script work with WordPress.

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My Top Ten WordPress Plugins

There are a lot of great plugins out there for WP, many of which I couldn’t run a live site without.

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Blog Roundup for the 5th of September 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 5th of September

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Blog Roundup for the 17th of June 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 17th of June

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How to Run a Successful Web Site For Your Church

Church was the original social marketing complete with blogs, events and groups.

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Pissing off the neighbors, and other WordPress events today.

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 27th of October

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Blog Roundup for the 31st of March 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 31st of March

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Blog Roundup for the 6th of May 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 6th of May

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Blog Roundup for the 3rd of May 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 3rd of May

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A Very Bad Weekend of Blogging

This weekend I had a very bad error on the web site and now I’m going to have to spend a few days cleaning it up.

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Blog Roundup for the 9th of January 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of January

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Structuring your web site with Adobe Dreamweaver

The third part of a ten part series where we learn to build better web sites with Dreamweaver.

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Save Democracy

Yes, I know it’s easy to make fun of Bush now but I was doing it years ago :) I just came across this on my hard drive today and it cracked me up so now I’m sharing it with the world.

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Blog Roundup for the 9th of March 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of March

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Blog Roundup for the 22nd of October 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 22nd of October

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Adobe MAX 2008 Discounts, AIR, Events and More

Don’t forget to check out the great pumpkin tutorial for Illustrator!

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Blog Roundup for the 20th of March 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 20th of March

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Blog Roundup for the 29th of June 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 29th of June

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Blog Roundup for the 10th of January 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 10th of January

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Receiving orders without a computer.

A great little article I found in my old archives.

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Blog Roundup for the 26th of June 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 26th of June

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Blog Roundup for the 26th of September 2008

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 26th of September

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What is a domain name?

Domain names are used to help make your web site easier to find by visitors and can be anything you like, if you can get the name.

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Blog Roundup for the 6th of September 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 6th of September

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Blog Roundup for the 14th of October 2008

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 14th of October

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Blog Roundup for the 23rd of January 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 23rd of January

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Blog Roundup for the 10th of September 2008

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 10th of September

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Save Flash Video games from the Internet

Saving an SWF to your computer is simple if you take just a couple of minutes to understand HTML.

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Blog Roundup for October 25th

After a couple of weeks of wondering why my % of users using Internet Explorer was only 10%, I finally know why.

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Finding Free Photos for Your Blog

Photo Dropper is a WordPress plugin designed to help you find images available through the Creative Commons license.

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Justin Trudeau is my Liberal

Let’s be honest, watching the Liberal leadership race is probably as exciting as attending one of Dion or Ignatieff’s university lectures, which is to say that I’m bored already and the race has yet to really kick off.
The problem, as I see it, is that the two top contenders for the position are best described [...]

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Blog Roundup for the 5th of June 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 5th of June

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Blog Roundup for the 19th of September 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 19th of September

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Make Great Money Selling Online

Building an online empire might not be in your future but helping to pay the monthly bills is easy with the Internet.

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Blog Roundup for the 21st of June 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 21st of June

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Google Launches AdSense for Video Games

25% of Internet users play online games every week, which is over 200 million users worldwide.

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Blog Roundup for the 9th of April 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of April

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Blog Roundup for the 21st of October 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 21st of October

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Blog Roundup for the 9th of December 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of December

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Blog Roundup for the 24th of April 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 24th of April

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Blog Roundup for the 3rd of January 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 3rd of January

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Blog Roundup for the 9th of May 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of May

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Blog Roundup for the 23rd of September 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 23rd of September

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Blog Roundup for the 14th of November 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 14th of November

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Blog Roundup for the 23rd of April 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 23rd of April

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Blog Roundup for the 7th of July 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 7th of July

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Blog Roundup for the 9th of June 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of June

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Blog Roundup for the 24th of May 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 24th of May

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Blog Roundup for the 31st of August 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 31st of August

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Blog Roundup for the 14th of August 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 14th of August

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Blog Roundup for the 6th of February 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 6th of February

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Blog Roundup for the 9th of January 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of January

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Blog Roundup for the 1st of May 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 1st of May

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Blog Roundup for the 23rd of December 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 23rd of December

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Winter Wonderland Flash Animation Contest

Win a free copy of Adobe Creative Suite (Production) CS4 or up to $1,000 in prizes!

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Blog Roundup for the 29th of January 2006

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 29th of January

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Green Vase

This piece was created from an original photograph and heavily modified in Adobe Photoshop during the summer of 2005. For a while I offered it for sale as a printed piece. These days, it’s simply available online as part of my portfolio.

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How should you hire a web professional?

I was reading a wonderful article about hiring web professionals today and thought I’d share a few of my own comments and observations for people looking to hire a web designer or developer to work on their next project.

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Blog Roundup for the 22nd of June 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 22nd of June

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Blog Roundup for the 28th of January 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 28th of January

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Blog Roundup for the 13th of July 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 13th of July

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Blog Roundup for the 18th of September 2008

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 18th of September

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Why I use nofollow even though I hate it.

There’s an attribute that we can assign to the anchor tag called nofollow, it was introduced a while back by Google and has been stirring up trouble ever since it arrived. It’s designed to help stop comment spam but lots of people are not entirely sure that it works.

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Blog Roundup for the 27th of May 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 27th of May

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Blog Roundup for the 1st of May 2007

My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 1st of May

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Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site.

Operation Aborted.

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