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WordPress In The Enterprise – Article 5, Post Mortem

This article is article 5 in a series of articles about implementing WordPress in the Enterprise.  This article is about some of the aftermath of our big conversion of enterprise sites to WordPress.  In some ways  it never ends, the tweaking and upgrading and improving of WordPress sites.  This is both good and bad.  Good [...]

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From Regular Website To WordPress Website – Article 2

If you are getting ready to move from a regular old fashion html site to a wordpress site and you are doing the work either yourself or working with a developer, here are critical issues below:
1. Planning out the pages and posts.
2. Keeping a division between web pages and articles. (Do you still know the [...]

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From Regular Website To WordPress Website – Article 1

This article is in a series of articles about migrating from a regular website to a WordPress website…
Like many things on the web, whether you a 100% techie or 100% marketing or somewhere in between the day comes when you have to improve, change or modify your website.  I am about 50% techie and 50% [...]

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Anatomy of a Redesign – Pre Article

This series of articles are going to be about a site redesign.  While I am not a designer, and some say I am a hack programmer, I have been around the web enough and been a member of quite a few top notch teams on redesigning small sites to very big ones.  And trust me [...]

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WordPress In The Enterprise – Article 4, Upgrading WordPress!

This article is the 4th of a series of articles about WordPress In The Enterprise. This article is a work in progress, I am going to add to it as I go about this process, since I am tackling an issue that right now has no easy answer in the enterprise, and that is how [...]

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Websites.com $10,000 Site Design Contest

The reason I am pushing people to checkout the Websites.com website redesign contest, is I was one of the judges for the very first Websites.com best new site contests… Basically I felt that we did not get the showing that we deserved for the first contest.  This means if you enter, and entering is free, [...]

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SEO in Overdrive :)

Like may things in the web everybody is looking for the edge.  You can go and read the JimBoykin.com site and get some interactive agency to do an audit, but often it is the same SEO stuff over and over.
A couple of years ago, at the beginning of SEO, Search Engine Optimization, around 2001, I [...]

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Fixing Broken Links After Migrating To WordPress

This article is related to the first three posts about Implementing WordPress in the Enterprise Environment.  One of the lonely tasks following the migration of our website from HTML and Cold Fusion based files to PHP and WordPress was to fix several thousand incoming links from Google and other search engines.   Without these Redirection fixes, the [...]

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