By Mike McCready on October 7, 2009
If you ever need to change the URL for your WordPress installation, this quick tip will help you. I just recently went through this process with another blog and while it was relatively painless, it could have been disastrous. Make sure you backup before beginning. Changing your WordPress URL from www.oldwebsite.com to www.newwebsite.com is very [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged .htaccess, PhpMyAdmin, SQL, tips, Weblogs, Wordpress
By Mike McCready on August 13, 2009
In January I wrote a post titled, ‘Social Media… Is It a Fad?‘. In this post I started to address some of the reasons why I think Social Media is NOT a fad. This video there are some very interesting statistics about social media usage and predictions for the future. This video has a similar [...]
Posted in Marketing, Social Media, Twitter | Tagged blogging, blogs, Brand, Communication, Media, Social Media, Social Network, social networking, Statistics, strategy, Twitter, Web 2.0, Weblogs, YouTube
By Mike McCready on March 21, 2009
Image via stock.xchng I thought about how to write my blog with confidence and authority. I’m fairly new to the world of blogging, considering blogging has been around since 1993. But I’m no stranger to the world of web development, since I’ve been working in the industry for over 10 years. Writing with Confidence So [...]
Posted in Marketing, Social Media | Tagged Blog, blogging, chris brogan, Copyblogger, Social Media, Weblogs, Writers Resources
By Mike McCready on March 16, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been using WordPress for a couple of years now and would like to share my experience, tips and other interesting facts about WordPress in a new series of posts called WordPress Tips. I don’t profess to be an expert with WordPress, but I would like to share my own experiences from [...]
Posted in Tips & Tricks, Wordpress | Tagged Autosave, Blog, Weblogs, Wordpress, Wordpress Tips, World Wide Web
By Mike McCready on April 29, 2008
I came across an article called “Google Web Site Optimizer Tool: I Told You So” on Sitepoint.com that talked about a new tool from Google called the Web Site Optimizer Tool. You will need a Google Gmail account – but I imagine that you have a Gmail account already, if not, what are you waiting [...]
Posted in Marketing, SEO, Web Technologies | Tagged Analytics, Gmail, Google, google analytics, Tools, Web Optimizing, Weblogs