How Does Your Business Look Online?
Here’s a good exercise to help you get motivated to update your site: Google your business name. I am in the process of updating a map for a site I developed and it involves googling almost every local...
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I went to a seminar this week at Salem State’s Enterprise Center about managing social networking for small businesses. Neal Advertising’s Neal Bocian, Chad Foster and Jesse Friedman were great at not...
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Spring is in the air…
-and I am itching to do some freshening up around here! This post by (Anti) Social Development is great for organizing your spring cleaning to-do list ! I really want to get out of this gloomy dark...
View ArticleWelcome To The New Site!
Ooh, I am so excited! I wanted to utilize the Sliding Door CSS theme by Wayne and incorporate it with a previous motif on the site which compared developing a site to the changing of the seasons. I’m...
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How to Use WordPress: Part 1
I feel like I haven’t posted anything new in forever! Mainly it’s because I’ve been really busy with new clients and now the result it that I have been to quite a few client meetings to tutor people on...
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Getting Your Company Listed with Bing.com
Bing.com is a new search engine that is being touted as the next big thing, at least that’s what Microsoft is hoping. They’ve pumped metric tons of money into marketing it as Google’s new competitor,...
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A Guide to Web Color-
-right in your own (WordPress) backyard! I was ready to do a search for a good online hexadecimal color guide for a client, when I realized that they have one right there in the Editing window! Step 1....
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Site Launch: Michael McCarthy Law
Michael McCarthy Law has been in development for a while now and readers will soon find that it was worth the wait! Meant to be much more than a simple “shingle site” for a Personal Injury and Estate...
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NextGen Gallery: The Missing Manual
UPDATE: Feburary 16, 2014- In light of NextGEN’s acquisition by Photocrati and subsequent UI changes I have created a new guide that you can find here. As much as everyone loves the NextGen Gallery by...
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How to Link to an Email Address in WordPress
WordPress has a very handy way to create links to other pages but did you know you can also use it to link text to an email address? It’s a question I get from clients fairly often so I thought it...
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How to Add an Editor to a Facebook Page
This comes up a lot for me. People start a business, they know that they should at least be on Facebook, and they start a Facebook Page. And then, life happens, things get busy and they lose track of...
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Web Site Maintenance and You
I have been doing this for a while. In fact, I remember creating my first WordPress site for a client and glancing at the list of plugins in the dashboard and thinking “Akismet? Jetpack? Who needs...
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Meet My Squad
Welcome to a new series on the Jenn Mears Web Design Blog called “Shop Local”! Last summer I took a deep breath, considered my options, and then made the commitment to join a new BNI chapter that was...
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WordPress 101: Welcome to your new site!
I have a WordPress site! Yay! ….now what? As someone who works with WordPress all the time, I have gotten very used to all the ins and outs of the dashboard and how WP works. Even with all that’s...
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WordPress 101: Let’s Create Some Content!
This is the second part in a series on how to use a WordPress site. After developing dozens of sites for clients that say they want to have a site they can edit themselves, I’ve come to realize that...
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How To Create a MailChimp Newsletter
Somehow, somewhere along the line, I have acquired a couple of recurring jobs as a MailChimp newsletter creator. Similar to Constant Contact, MailChimp has placed itself in a market position aimed at...
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Using The Smart Slider Plugin: Changing The Image
Sliders have been a really popular feature on websites for the past few years. When used for the right reasons they can be a pretty efficient way to use the “Above The Fold” area of the page. Being...
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Quick and Easy PayPal E-Commerce
It happens. You want to sell a few things as part of your website but you don’t quite feel like going through the entire process of setting up an e-commerce site. Besides, by the time I get through...
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How to Add an Admin to Your Facebook Page
Of course, if you are reading this a week from now, chances are Facebook has decided to change how this looks, but trust me-once you have the basics of how this is done, you will be able to muddle...
View ArticleFAQs About FAQs
Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind. Jiddu Krishnamurti via GIPHY One: What is a FAQ? FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Question. It’s something that...
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