The Solopreneur Life’s “Friday Bits” Column #40
It’s the end of the week, and just like almost every Friday at The Solopreneur Life, I have a menu of information for you. This week’s “Bits” is being delivered late, because I had major Web site...
View ArticleThe Solopreneur Life’s Review of Headway Themes
Warning: I’m an HTML/CSS/PHP hack, so if you’re a Web designer, this review holds no value for you. This is a review for people who think they can build their own Web site but who actually should hire...
View Article22 Great Tools To Use When Building Your Web Site
Last weekend I scratched an itch and built a new Web site — a niched golf site. (I will reveal its URL at the end of this article.) Here are the tools I used. I hope this is helpful for you! I am an...
View ArticleReview of Premise, a WordPress Plugin For the Building of Landing Pages
In the summer of 2010, I needed/wanted an easy-to-use landing-page plugin for WordPress. I couldn’t find one. Oh, I found some plugins, but they weren’t easy to use and the pages they produced were...
View ArticleShould You Upgrade To WordPress 3.3?
On December 12, WordPress.org released WordPress version 3.3, also known as “Sonny,” after jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt. Countless solopreneurs, including me, use WordPress for their Web sites. Here’s...
View ArticleWordPress.com vs. WordPress.org: Which Should Solopreneurs Use?
Back when I was creating TheSolopreneurLife.com, I was new to WordPress and didn’t understand the distinction between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. It was very confusing. I came to learn that...
View ArticleUltra-Minimalism and Responsiveness Highlight Straight River Media’s New Design
The Web site for TheSolopreneurLife.com’s “parent company,” Straight River Media, has been renovated. I had three objectives with the changes to this WordPress-based site: 1. Achieve an...
View ArticleWebsite Visitors Using Mobile Devices Triples in 2 Years
I’m looking at the analytics of my golf website, GolfSwingGallery.com. In the past month, 35% of the visitors have used mobile devices. (Of those devices, 47% have been using iPads and 38% have been...
View ArticleOnline Business Software I Can’t Live Without
Check out the companion to this post, Customize Your Webstie! 12 WordPress Plugins I Can’t Live Without. I currently publish six websites. Two are established: TheSolopreneurLife.com and...
View ArticleCustomize Your Website! 12 WordPress Plugins I Can’t Live Without
This is a companion to an article I wrote last week, Online Business Software I Can’t Live Without. Plugins extend the functionality of WordPress, which is designed to be lean and flexible. Plugins...
View ArticleHow To Remove “No Comments” Link From Front Page in WordPress
I just spent 90 minutes trying to figure out how to remove the “No Comments” text that appears below the blog posts on my home page that don’t have any comments. I thought you’d like to know how I did...
View ArticleThe WordPress Plugin I Used To Resize GIFs
When writing the “21 Things We Love and Hate About Being Solopreneurs (In GIFs)” post, I ran into a problem. I have 400 pixels of width for my blog posts, but more than half of the GIFs used in the “21...
View ArticleInclude the Date of Publication on Your Posts
When you publish a blog you have the option of including — or not including — the date of the publication of your posts. My recommendation: include the date. If you’re not publishing on a frequent,...
View ArticleWooThemes Announces the Release of WooCommerce Bookings, an Online Booking...
This morning WooThemes notified customers that it has launched a bookings plugin for WooCommerce. (WooCommerce is a free e-commerce product for WordPress websites.) The new plugin is called WooCommerce...
View ArticleI’ve Completed a Massive Update to the ‘Tools That Work’ Page
After I launched TheSolopreneurLife.com, one of the first pages I created was the Tools That Work page. It’s a resource page for solopreneurs’ online-commerce and website needs. This is a heads-up —...
View ArticleHow I Improved My WordPress Website’s Speed by 60 Percent
One of the best things about the WordPress publishing platform is that it gives you endless customization options. Most of the customization comes via plugins, which are small programs that you install...
View ArticleWhy I Moved My WordPress Website to Rainmaker
This week I’m rolling out a new design for TheSolopreneurLife.com. It’s actually more than a new design. It’s a complete website overhaul: the exterior, the interior, a total engine replacement, new...
View ArticleThe Solopreneur Life’s Review of the New Rainmaker Platform
On Sunday morning I was sitting on the sidelines inside a domed athletic facility in the Twin Cities. I was watching my 16-year-old daughter play lacrosse. Sitting next to me was a good friend whom...
View ArticleHow to Change the Text on Mailchimp’s “Subscribe to List” Button
The old retail adage, “a confused mind never buys,” applies to online sign-ups, too. Here’s an example. Mailchimp’s default text on its sign-up buttons says “Subscribe to list.” But “Subscribe to...
View ArticleHow to Change the Copyright Date on Your Website
Happy New Year! Now, go and change the copyright date on your website. Visitors to your site judge you on everything, and the details matter to them. The copyright date is one of those details.The...
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