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Wordpress and SEO basics for DIY small business websites

rlhcreative — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:40:55 +0000

Last night, I gave a presentation on “Website Basics: How to get your business online and promote it” to the local Licensed Massage Therapists group. They were a great crowd and were enthusiastic about learning to make or improve their own websites. I hope I was able to provide some basic info and at least make the topic a little less scary. Thanks to everyone who came out to listen!

I’ve shared the slides below, questions welcome.

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Website Basics: How to Get Your Business Online and Promote It (LMT Presentation 7-2010)

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Special offer in April Newsletter

rlhcreative — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:17:10 +0000

Check out my April Newsletter to receive the coupon code for 15% off your custom Facebook Fan Page!

Bitch Media’s redesign launches

rlhcreative — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:28:24 +0000

I’ve been working with BitchMedia and their Drupal development team, Quilted, over the last several months on the redesign of their website, which launched last week. I had a great time working with the folks at Bitch Media, in particular Kjerstin Johnson (web content manager), Brian Frank (operations director), and Briar Levitt, art director (also at www.briarmade.wordpress.com), whose excellent design made my part a delight to work on.

I did image production for the donate block on the sidebar as well as modifications in the CSS to change headline and link colors, search box positioning, replaced the logo with the new version and made other minor changes. I’m proud of the final result, and prouder still to have the opportunity to work with such an excellent organization. Check it out yourself at Bitch Media.

New client, Nancy Schwartz, of GettingAttention.org

rlhcreative — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:08:03 +0000

I’m thrilled to be working with Nancy Schwartz, of Nancy Schwartz and Company and publisher at GettingAttention.org on several web development projects. Nancy’s been blogging on Typepad for several years, but is eager to make the leap to Wordpress because it will be much easier to for her staff to update and to create new pages for product launches. We’re using the Thesis theme for the new blog and I’m enjoying working with it, although figuring out how to use the custom functions and hooks is a bit of a challenge.

Nancy Schwartz publishes the excellent Nonprofit Tagline Report every year, it’s a great reference, of course, but it’s also a good read. My favorite is the list of taglines at the end of the report–usually there are some great examples of how much help nonprofits need in this particular area.

Here are a couple from last year’s tagline report that, honestly, make me very glad I’m no longer required to sit through the kinds of meetings that produce gems like these:

Providing bicycles to improve access to healthcare, education and income generation opportunities.

To do that which otherwise would not be timely done.

Finding ‘fur-ever’ homes for the cats and kittens of Las Vegas.

Now, I didn’t include any names above because it’s not my intention to call anyone out–after all the whole point of the tagline report is to help nonprofits write better taglines, and what better way to learn than to see examples of what not to do.

You can download Nancy’s 2009 Nonprofit Tagline Report at GettingAttention.org.

Featured Q Center

rlhcreative — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:25:49 +0000

Q Center’s new website launched in January! Q Center is Portland’s LGBTQI community center and I’m proud to be able to help them reach more of the community through their redesigned site.