Web Site Advice
What Is a Web Master?
Welcome to my blog, please feel free to subscribe to my RSS feed or leave a comment.Though my career, I’ve often been asked what the role of the Web Master really is. I’ve always struggled with the answer because a Web Master isn’t really a programmer (although your Web Master should be able to program) [...]
Automatically Title Casing Titles in WordPress
If you’re anything like me, you’re a little lazy when it comes to title casing text in WordPress but as we all know, it’s really important to be consistent across your web pages, so what’s the answer? As I often comment … it’s time for technology to come to the rescue.
Add a Digg Button to Your WordPress Web Site
This tutorial is super easy and takes about five minutes.
Using WordPress to Manage Your Web Site
You may have thought DNS servers were the hard part but, it’s your content that’ll really be a challenge.
How Do You Put Together a Great Web Site Without a Web Designer?
All this week I’ve been posting about how easy it is for non technical people to register their own domain name and how to setup a web site using Blogger, WordPress.com or even BlueHost but what about the next step? How do you publish your own web page without hiring a web designer? More [...]
It’S Easy to Setup Your Domain Name You don’T Need to Be an Expert.
Setting up your domain is easy, let me walk you through the steps.
Anybody Can Register a Domain Name, it’S Quick and Easy.
Register your own domain name to save time, money and frustration.
You don’T Have to Be an Web Expert to Setup a Great Site.
I know somewhere out there, web designers are going to kill me for telling you this.
How to Make a Web Site Look Good in Multiple Browsers.
Why do web pages look different in different browsers and how do we fix it?
Search Engine Optimization Tip - Deep Linking
Deep linking your way to profit and better usability.
Obama Makes the Most of Facebook
Using new technology, Obama-Biden take control of FaceBook
Search Engine Optimization Techniques for WordPress
Optimization tricks and techniques to help your WordPress blog.
Why Your Search Engine Rank Depends on Your Competitors.
How those around you, including your competion can influence your ranking with Google.
Google Talks About the Myths of Dynamic URL’S.
The battle between dynamic and static URLs and how Google sees your web site.
Increase Your Web Traffic for Free
We all want to increase our traffic but how can we do it for free?
How to Run a Successful Web Site for Your Church
Church was the original social marketing complete with blogs, events and groups.
Five Tips to Ensure Your Search Engine Optimization Firm isn’T Scamming You.
Google takes a moment to post warnings to users about Search Engine Optimization cons.
Adding a Favorites Icon to Your Website Is Fast and Easy, So Why Don’T You Have One?
FavIcon’s help brand your business with very little effort, find out how.
Using MAMP and LAMP for WordPress Development
My FTP program is a time thief, it’s time to save time.
Adobe Dreamweaver Tip for Working With WordPress
One of the big problems I’ve had with WP over the past could of years however is a less than reliable WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor
Meta Tags That Kill Your Blog
Some SEO experts will tell you that meta tags are useless but that’s not true, they’re simply not as powerful as they used to be.
Three Awesome WordPress Designs
There are a lot of great WordPress blogs out there and some amazingly cool designs.
Rednecks for Obama
I’ve got to say, maybe as a Canadian I have had the wrong idea of Redneck all this time.
Google Launches AdSense for Video Games
25% of Internet users play online games every week, which is over 200 million users worldwide.
WordPress SEO Tips - the Title Tag
Optimizing your Title tag will help increase your business.
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.
Better HTML Helps Search Engine Results
For the best search engine rankings, you need to understand that search engine robots are not as clever as people.
Yahoo Launches Web Analytics Beta
In a weird twist of marketing, Yahoo! has decided to brand the web site to look a little like My Little Pony.
Simple Design Ideas to Increase Your Web Sales
How can a simple web design help increase your web sales?
How to Increase Your Web Traffic
When we talk about how to increase traffic to your web site, the first thing that we have to decide is what type of traffic we’re looking for.
Do Web Graphics Increase Sales?
How important are graphics to the success of a web site? There are a couple of schools of thought on this subject, the first is that content is what matters on a web site.
Five Techniques to Increase Web Traffic
Getting people to your web site is critical but those people have to be the right people.
Matt Mullenweg Previews WordPress 2.7
Here’s a great video of Matt Mullenweg going over the new feature set of WordPress 2.7. Some of the highlights include a lot of great attention being paid to the admin interface.
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.
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.
Search Engine Optimization and Dynamic URL’S
How dynamic URL’s can help increase Google’s understanding of your web site.
Increasing Website Traffic for Free
Everybody on the Internet wants more web traffic and we’re all looking for the cheapest way to get it. Here’s my personal take on how to do it, how to keep it and most importantly … how to avoid paying for it.
Web Sites for Artists
We had a great meeting of the Fredericton Designers Group in which I promised a number of the new members to post a little more details about web hosting, web sites and web marketing. This tutorial is meant as a high level introduction to the concepts of hosting a web site for artists.
Learning Web Design for Print Designers
For those who don’t know the dirty little secret of designers, here it is … there are web designers and there are print designers. Rarely do the two specialties cross but it doesn’t have to be that way, great print designers can easily learn to be wonderful web designers without having to know a lot of coding and technical garbage.
Making Images Print Friendly
Aaron Gustafson has produced a wonderful article on replacing web images with images suitable for printing, the iIR: img Image Replacement method allows web designers to create pages which look great in both web and print.
Web Design Services in Fredericton New Brunswick
Fredericton New Brunswick is located on the Saint John River in Eastern Canada, about an hour East of the State of Maine. It is home to both me and my business as a web consultant and graphic designer. From this sleepy little town, I create and consult with business and government leaders from around the world to produce exciting web sites using on standards based design.
Tips for Hiring a Good Web Designer
Trust me, your web designer can turn your ideas into magic but you have to let them do their job.
Helping Users Remember Their Email Addresses
I’m a strong believer that users shouldn’t have to think in order to use my products. In fact, I proudly sport my copy of Don’t Make Me Think to just about every party I venture to.
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.
Does the Meta Tag Still Matter?
Does the old Meta tag still make a difference? How we use it properly.
Top Three osCommerce Upgrades for Small Business
A great little article I found in my old archives.
Creating a Cache on phpWebSite
I’ve been going nuts for the past month or so, looking for a static cache for phpWebsite, a great CMS application.
In the end, I’ve hacked together a little something and it works perfectly, all you have to do is paste this code in your index.php file, and create a file called “staticindex.html” in your root [...]
How Much Should a Designer Charge?
Graphic Designers have asked this question in every forum and every meeting I have ever attended and the answer is surprisingly simple … Designers should bill the rate that their market considers fare and that they, as professionals are comfortable accepting.
That’s pretty simple eh? Well, it’s not really and I know that you’re looking for [...]
Could a Website Increase Your Profits?
Do you have all the customers and all the profit you desire?
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.
How to Hire a Web Designer
It’s no secret, the world has gone to the Web and nowadays, if you want to be in business you need a web site but how do you hire a web designer and should you hire a web designer here in Fredericton or from a big city? Before we begin, lets answer some basic questions.
Newsletters Are Great for Business
Building a loyal client base through newsletter marketing.
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.
What's my site about?
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My name is Christopher Ross, in the past I have made a living by picking grapes, catching chickens, working in a warehouse, cutting vinyl, designing logos, teaching college, writing manuals, taking photographs, giving lectures, pushing pixels, selling radios and flipping burgers. Jobs are like a pair of socks, if you don’t change them once and a while you get stuck in one place. Here’s my bio.
Need Help?
The web isn’t complicated, only web developers are. I take the mystery out of web sites and build online environments for business owners. Building web sites is a lot like tossing a frozen turkey, it’s all about getting a grip on the problem and being sure you know what to do next. My job is to make your business grow by knowing the tools, the tricks and the tactics for building a success business on the Internet. Learn a little more about what I do, or contact me if you’d like to talk about your needs.
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