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WordPress Mondays: 8 Things You Can Do to Speed Up Your Site and Get More Traffic
Jan 9th
Lately Google has mentioned that website owners need to be aware of how fast their site loads. Because they are aware how fast your website loads even if you are not. They also mentioned that if the site loads to slow that it could factor into your site’s search rankings. Image Source: Traffic Trails – Flickr
So with that in mind a few months ago I decided to work on speeding up Evolutionary Designs. Before Google mentioned load times, I always tried to keep the load time on the site as fast as possible. But the load times weren’t the best. More >
A Mashable Styled Social Sharing Bar – WordPress Plugin
Dec 12th
SEO is great for getting search engine traffic, but only concentrating on SEO isn’t the best strategy. You can get a lot of good referring traffic from social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and even the new Google+ can bring you traffic. But you won’t get any traffic if you don’t have an easy for your visitors to share your articles or even follow you on your social media sites.
There a lot of good social media sharing plugins available but many are not update with the latest social media sharing sites or they have to many options that end More >
jQuery Resources: Articles and Tutorials for Developers
Jun 3rd
As a designer and WordPresss user I learn early on that I needed to more than just design. I found very quickly when modifying WordPress themes that you needed to know PHP and knowing a little about jQuery was also helpful. Even if you do know coding but know how to add the code and where to place in your theme is a good idea.
I admit my coding skills are limited and I will never be a developer, but I understand PHP and jQuery. If I need something coded and I can find the code, I can add it where I need More >
Thursday and Friday of Our Trip to Kelowna B.C.
Sep 11th
Thursday and Friday was another busy few days, but for very different reasons. Thursday was busy, because it was the last day of site seeing and Friday was spent traveling 6 hours from Kelonwa B.C. to Spokane Washington. On Thursday we ending taking a hike on Knox Mountain that was several miles up hill, took a winery tour at the Gray Monk Estate Winery, and finished our night at an indoor water park.
Our first stop of the day was a mourning hike on Knox Mountain. Knox Mountain is a micro climate that is mostly arid and is the end of the Osoyoos More >
Day Three of Vacation in Kelowna B.C.
Sep 10th
Wednesday was another busy day of visiting the local favorites. As before, I won’t go into details about everything we did that day. What stuck out the most was, we toured Carmeli’s Goat Farm, St. Hubertus Estate Winery, Japanese garden, and boat tour of Okanagan Lake. If you are in the area visiting, I would highly recommend stopping by and visiting these places.
On the second stop of the day, we stopped by Carmeli’s Goat Cheese Artisan farm in Kelowna. One of my favorite tours was the making of the goat cheese. Anyone who knows me personally, knows I love cheese More >
Day one and Two In Kelowna B.C.
Sep 9th
Its now Wednesday night and we have packed in so much, that I haven’t had much time to post up all the great pictures and talk about a few of the places we stopped. Everything has been going well and we have seen a lot of Kelowna. During the first two days we went and visited a a Winery, tasted goat cheese from the local goat farm, visited the beach around the lake, visited one of the local wildlife parks, beer tasting at Tree Brewing Company, and walked the cultural district.
I won’t go into much detail about the individual trip More >
On Vacation For the Week
Sep 6th
Well its that time a year, when my wife and I head out of town to visit her parents. In the past this wasn’t a big deal. We normally would head over to their house that was down the street for dinner or to visit. But two years ago, they up and decided they wanted to move to Canada. Don’t ask me why, they never gave me a good reason for this move. For almost two years they have asked us to visit them and this is the week we finally had the time and vacation time off to do More >
14 Useful Articles for Bloggers, WordPress Users, and Social Media Users
Jun 7th
This week’s weekly round up is list of articles covering some of the best articles written over the last couple of weeks. The resources covered in this week is for bloggers looking for way to write more high quality articles, different ways to modify WordPress, and tips to be more successful at using social media.
BloggingAre You Networking? – Keith over at Hot Blog Tips wrote and did a great video about networking.
Writing a Business Blog: Five Things You Need to Know – A guest post on Web Tech Wise about writing content on your blog. By having good content you can More >
21 New Resources Covering Topics for For Designers, Social Media and Blogging
May 17th
Last week, was an interesting week for me. I finally got my domain and site migration completed. My new domain register and web host is great, but the company left not so much. Sometime I will do review of the company, but not right now. Because of these changes I did not make any changes to the site or post any new blog post for fear of loosing the new work.
Since I had some extra time, I decided to spend more time reading some of my favorite design, social media and blogging tips sites. Below you find a collection of links More >
21 New Resources for Designers and Bloggers – Weekly Round Up May 2nd 2010
May 3rd
Last week was a great week for catching up on some of the blogs I haven’t visited in the last few weeks. I was surprised at all the good stuff to read. There were so many great articles that I could not list them all. I have listed some of my favorites from last week. They are broken up by subject and I gave a short summary about each one.
Every week I try and post the “best of” on the internet covering a broad selection of New Media topics including design, social media, blogging tips, SEO, and WordPress. If More >
Site Going Down For a Few Hours
Apr 27th
Later today Evolutionary Designs and blog will go down for a transfer. The transfer will take place sometime this this evening and will down most of the night. You can follow site updates on my Twitter account; @Element321.
Correction, the Site will going down sometime tomorrow. I received word from my Current URL registry that I will be able to move the URL tomorrow. So tomorrow afternoon I will moving my URL to another URL registrar.
Famous Bloggers and CommentLuv Cash Prize Contest Is Over
Jul 16th
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Its finally over, I mean the Famous Bloggers and CommentLuv contest is finish taking new contest entries. As of Wednesday, July 14th, they will no longer except anymore entries. If you got your post in before the deadline, they will continue to post all entries until they have no more.
The good news is, they still have a lot of entries to post. So there is plenty of time to promote your entries. You can promote your entries by Tweeting about your entries, and writing about them on your blogs.
Deadlines for all things related to the contest: