9 Tips to Get Your LinkedIn Invites Accepted
Here's a fun fact about me: I have 245 LinkedIn invites that I haven't accepted yet. You may wonder if I'm connected with anyone on LinkedIn with a number that high, however, as of this moment, I have 623 LinkedIn connections. This means that roughly 28% of my invites...
Building Links That People (and Google) Trust
Links are how we share information on the web. They are how we connect one piece of information to another. Seems simple enough to link one thing to another, and essentially it is, but there are some guidelines that are important to follow if you want someone to trust...
7 Tools to Get Your Photos and Images Web Ready Without Using Photoshop
Have you ever been to a website where the images are distorted or grainy looking? Maybe you noticed that the images appear small, but take forever to load. This is usually due to the fact that people take a picture with their camera, upload it to a website, and adjust...
10 Steps to a Pinnable Blog
If you pay any attention to your site's analytics, you may have noticed by now that people are finding your blog on Pinterest. Pinterest is a visual bookmarking site where people share what they like by "pinning" their favorite sites onto boards. Other users can repin...
Rethinking Home Phone Service, Part III: Obi110 vs Ooma
I love my Obi110, but had a couple of issues that made me want to check out the Ooma Telo. Here's my comparison so you can decide for yourself which would be best for you. The first device I tried was the Obi110, available from Amazon (affiliate link). Great little...
Rethinking Home Phone Service, Part II: Getting Home Phone for “Free”
After lots of research, I found a way to get "free" phone service that works. This solution takes some work initially, but if you don't mind a little sweat, it's a great way to save some money. My goals: Keep my old phone number to forward to voice mail; Get...
Rethinking Home Phone Service, Part I
We closed on our new house Friday, and I'm reconsidering all of our services. Right now we have cable, phone, and Road Runner through Time Warner. Since we're moving out of the county, TW won't let us port our number to our new home. After really thinking about it, I...
3 Tools to Help You Select the Perfect Colors for Your Website
Everyone has a favorite color, but let's say your favorite color is Red. What shade of red? What's the hex value? RGB? RYB? CMYK? Pantone code? Is it a websafe color? My high school colors were gold and blue, yet one year the yearbook committee decided to make the...
Beef Up Your Social Media Profiles to Get Found Online
Everywhere you turn lately, someone is asking you for an online profile. It can be easy to overlook the importance of these little snapshots of who you are, however they are critical to how people find you online. While you may be limited to a 160 characters on...
Keeping WordPress in its Own Directory While Moving the Index File to Root
Here's the situation: WordPress has been installed in its own directory (i.e. www.your_domain_name.com/wordpress You want someone to go to www.your_domain_name.com and go directly to your WordPress installation A simple redirect will get them there, but the path shown...