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.
My 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.
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.
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:
My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 16th of June
Posted on: Saturday, June 16th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 24th of January
Posted on: Wednesday, January 24th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 16th of January
Posted on: Tuesday, January 16th, 2007As 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.
Posted on: Thursday, October 9th, 2008A Night in Paris is a two-column WordPress theme with a three-column lower section.
Posted on: Thursday, October 9th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of October
Posted on: Thursday, October 9th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 12th of April
Posted on: Wednesday, April 12th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 1st of July
Posted on: Tuesday, November 30th, 1999My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 8th of July
Posted on: Sunday, July 8th, 2007The 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.
Posted on: Tuesday, June 28th, 2005Optimizing your Title tag will help increase your business.
Posted on: Thursday, October 9th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 28th of April
Posted on: Saturday, April 28th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 27th of September
Posted on: Saturday, September 27th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 11th of April
Posted on: Wednesday, April 11th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 25th of September
Posted on: Thursday, September 25th, 2008Ask an average IT manager the cost of a quality CMS you’ll hear numbers ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars.
Posted on: Sunday, June 1st, 2008Years 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.
Posted on: Thursday, September 25th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 27th of February
Posted on: Tuesday, February 27th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 2nd of October
Posted on: Thursday, October 2nd, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 20th of December
Posted on: Wednesday, December 20th, 2006Using 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.
Posted on: Saturday, October 4th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 29th of May
Posted on: Tuesday, May 29th, 2007Because there’s more to the world than just Photoshop.
Posted on: Thursday, October 23rd, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 4th of April
Posted on: Wednesday, April 4th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 6th of November
Posted on: Monday, November 6th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 28th of July
Posted on: Saturday, July 28th, 2007A great little article I found in my old archives.
Posted on: Monday, October 23rd, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 11th of October
Posted on: Wednesday, October 11th, 2006Let me send you a brand new iPod from Apple, for writing about my web site.
Posted on: Saturday, October 18th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 25th of November
Posted on: Saturday, November 25th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 23rd of February
Posted on: Friday, February 23rd, 2007Frankly, I’m lazy and the ads served up from Google are great, they help me get what I want faster.
Posted on: Monday, October 13th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 26th of October
Posted on: Thursday, October 26th, 2006Building 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.
Posted on: Thursday, July 12th, 2007Making my holiday rotating script work with WordPress.
Posted on: Friday, October 24th, 2008There are a lot of great plugins out there for WP, many of which I couldn’t run a live site without.
Posted on: Friday, February 8th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 5th of September
Posted on: Tuesday, September 5th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 17th of June
Posted on: Saturday, June 17th, 2006Church was the original social marketing complete with blogs, events and groups.
Posted on: Monday, October 13th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 27th of October
Posted on: Monday, October 27th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 31st of March
Posted on: Saturday, March 31st, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 6th of May
Posted on: Saturday, May 6th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 3rd of May
Posted on: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006This 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.
Posted on: Monday, October 27th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of January
Posted on: Monday, January 9th, 2006The third part of a ten part series where we learn to build better web sites with Dreamweaver.
Posted on: Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Yes, 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.
Posted on: Thursday, September 25th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of March
Posted on: Thursday, March 9th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 22nd of October
Posted on: Sunday, October 22nd, 2006Don’t forget to check out the great pumpkin tutorial for Illustrator!
Posted on: Tuesday, October 28th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 20th of March
Posted on: Tuesday, March 20th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 29th of June
Posted on: Thursday, June 29th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 10th of January
Posted on: Tuesday, January 10th, 2006A great little article I found in my old archives.
Posted on: Thursday, October 20th, 2005My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 26th of June
Posted on: Tuesday, June 26th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 26th of September
Posted on: Friday, September 26th, 2008Domain 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.
Posted on: Tuesday, October 19th, 2004My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 6th of September
Posted on: Wednesday, September 6th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 14th of October
Posted on: Tuesday, October 14th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 23rd of January
Posted on: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 10th of September
Posted on: Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Saving an SWF to your computer is simple if you take just a couple of minutes to understand HTML.
Posted on: Wednesday, November 12th, 2008After a couple of weeks of wondering why my % of users using Internet Explorer was only 10%, I finally know why.
Posted on: Saturday, October 25th, 2008Photo Dropper is a WordPress plugin designed to help you find images available through the Creative Commons license.
Posted on: Thursday, October 16th, 2008Let’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 [...]
My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 5th of June
Posted on: Tuesday, June 5th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 19th of September
Posted on: Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Building an online empire might not be in your future but helping to pay the monthly bills is easy with the Internet.
Posted on: Monday, November 10th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 21st of June
Posted on: Thursday, June 21st, 200725% of Internet users play online games every week, which is over 200 million users worldwide.
Posted on: Thursday, October 9th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of April
Posted on: Monday, April 9th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 21st of October
Posted on: Saturday, October 21st, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of December
Posted on: Saturday, December 9th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 24th of April
Posted on: Tuesday, April 24th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 3rd of January
Posted on: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of May
Posted on: Tuesday, May 9th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 23rd of September
Posted on: Saturday, September 23rd, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 14th of November
Posted on: Tuesday, November 14th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 23rd of April
Posted on: Monday, April 23rd, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 7th of July
Posted on: Friday, July 7th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of June
Posted on: Saturday, June 9th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 24th of May
Posted on: Thursday, May 24th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 31st of August
Posted on: Thursday, August 31st, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 14th of August
Posted on: Monday, August 14th, 2006My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 6th of February
Posted on: Tuesday, February 6th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 9th of January
Posted on: Tuesday, January 9th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 1st of May
Posted on: Tuesday, May 1st, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 23rd of December
Posted on: Saturday, December 23rd, 2006Win a free copy of Adobe Creative Suite (Production) CS4 or up to $1,000 in prizes!
Posted on: Thursday, October 16th, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 29th of January
Posted on: Sunday, January 29th, 2006This 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.
Posted on: Thursday, September 25th, 2008I 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.
Posted on: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 22nd of June
Posted on: Friday, June 22nd, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 28th of January
Posted on: Sunday, January 28th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 13th of July
Posted on: Friday, July 13th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 18th of September
Posted on: Thursday, September 18th, 2008There’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.
Posted on: Sunday, June 12th, 2005My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 27th of May
Posted on: Sunday, May 27th, 2007My take on what’s happying in the world of WordPress today, the 1st of May
Posted on: Tuesday, November 30th, 1999Operation Aborted.
Posted on: Friday, October 24th, 2008