What is a CMS and do I need one?

Judy Vedder WordPress

CMS is an acronym for Content Management System.  Your website can be built upon a Content Management platform which allows you to modify your own web site content directly in a browser.  You just bring up your website in Internet …

Blogs & Spam

Judy Vedder WordPress

Unfortunately, blogs and spam seem to go together.  Whenever you have a form on your web site – such as the comment form on your blog – you are opening yourself up to spam. Blocking Spam Luckily, WordPress has a plug-in …

How to Embed YouTube Videos in WordPress

Judy Vedder WordPress

To keep your readers interested, it’s important to mix things up on your blog. In additional to text and photos, videos are a great way to add some excitement to your blog. It can be your own video or one …

Choose your blogging software wisely

Judy Vedder WordPress

You may have noticed a 2 month gap between this post and the last one.  Wish I could say I was on an extended vacation, but I wasn’t.  And I haven’t given up on blogging either.  The reason I stopped …

Adding a Blog to Your Web Site

Judy Vedder WordPress

As more and more people learn about the power of business blogging and how blog articles can help improve your rank in the search engines, a common request that I am getting these days is to add a blog to …

Adding Features to Your CMS

Judy Vedder WordPress

One of the wonderful things about a Content Management System is the ability to easily expand your web site with new pages and new features. Once your web site is built on a CMS, the options are practically endless – …

Too Busy for Social Media?

Judy Vedder WordPress

How do you keep up with blogging and social media when business is busy?  This has been a big challenge for me.  Unlike most years when business slows down around the holidays, this year business is booming.  On top of …

Take Control of Your Website with a CMS

Judy Vedder WordPress

Technology never stands still.  As the owner of a web design business, I have to keep on top of the moving trends in my industry or become obsolete.  This year, the technology I have embraced is Content Management Systems.  Once …

Blogging for Business

Judy Vedder WordPress

To Blog or Not to Blog: that has been the question for some time now.  Like most people, I have used every excuse in the book: I don’t have time to blog I don’t know what to blog about I’m …