Hawaii Web Consulting » wordpress http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com Hawaii Web Design, Development, and Da Kine! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:38:14 +0000 en hourly 1 BlueHost running special: $3.95/month hosting http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2009/06/30/bluehost-running-special-3-95month-hosting/ http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2009/06/30/bluehost-running-special-3-95month-hosting/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:38:57 +0000 Mark http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/?p=315 bluehost_logoI’ve used BlueHost for several sites and client sites. They are a reliable, quality hosting company. Features include CPanel (for easy graphical access to your site), unlimited domain hosting, free domain, PHP/MySQL, easy site-script installation (used to be Fantastico), and many others. For $3.95/month it’s a great deal going on now, especially if you might be running a WordPress, Mambo, Joomla, or even ZenCart e-commerce site. Check BlueHost.com out today for the deal!

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]]> http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2009/06/30/bluehost-running-special-3-95month-hosting/feed/ 0 Podcamp Hawaii: Opening day http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2008/10/24/podcamp-hawaii-opening-day/ http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2008/10/24/podcamp-hawaii-opening-day/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:47:07 +0000 Mark http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/?p=170 Podcamp Registration

Podcamp Registration

Today was the opening day for the two-day Podcamp Hawaii.   It was a lot of great information, great variety of sessions, and plenty of wonderful people.   Here’s just a few of my notes from the day:

Opening blessings by Haunani and ‘Illima Kauka.  Followed by two lovely hula songs, danced by Kanoe Miller, and performed by The Casey Olson Trio.

Podcamp Blessing

Podcamp Blessing

Chris Heuer (www.chrisheuer.com) – Social media principles: tip — Be human, be personal.  Check out:  Filtrbox.com

Rob Farrow – Managing Online Identity: tip — chi.mp

Kristie Wells -Building Your Community: tip — socialmediaclub.org

Podcamp swag

Podcamp swag

Rob Halper – Johnson and Johnson health channel on YouTube: “equity marketing, not a hard ROI”

Dave Erdman – Podcasting Hawaii to Japan: tip — use lots of different media (YouTube, Podcasts, and “theme” web sites) to help Search Engine ranking

Overall, very interesting! I can’t make tomorrow’s session, even though there are some really good ones, including: Matt Mullenweg and Neil Abercrombie.  Try to make it if you can: PodcampHawaii.

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]]> http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2008/10/24/podcamp-hawaii-opening-day/feed/ 0 Web Weavers Workshop with Lorelle VanFossen http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2008/10/22/web-weavers-workshop-with-lorelle-vanfossen/ http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2008/10/22/web-weavers-workshop-with-lorelle-vanfossen/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:12:00 +0000 Mark http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/?p=155 Today was Web Weavers Workshop with Lorelle VanFossen, part of Hawaii’s Geek Week.   Lorelle had a ton of great tips to go along with the basics of setting up a successful WordPress blog site.   A large part of the information is in Lorelle’s book, but it was her discussions to student questions that often proved most helpful.  Some sample tips:

  • watch using pronouns in blog articles. Readers might be confused on what “it” is, along with the SEO problem related to keywords.
  • do “brain dumps” and THEN edit.   Unload your ideas completely and then go back and edit.   And edit, and edit, and edit some more. ;-)
  • and if you are using more than 400 words from someone else’s web site, be prepared to hear copyright problems.   In other words, keep your quoting of someone else’s material under 200 words or ask that writer for permission to use more.

Being a power-blogger, Lorelle had several shortcuts using Firefox, GreaseMonkey, and Google Reader, she even had tips on a great mouse that will power through web site scrolling.

It was a good class for anyone interested in learning about blogging, from beginners to those already blogging! Check out Lorelle’s web site for lots more information also!

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]]> http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2008/10/22/web-weavers-workshop-with-lorelle-vanfossen/feed/ 0 “How Has WordPress Changed Your Life”… http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2008/10/21/how-has-wordpress-changed-your-life/ http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2008/10/21/how-has-wordpress-changed-your-life/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:35:29 +0000 Mark http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/?p=146 During the opening event of Mactoberfest for Hawaii’s Geek Week, Lorelle VanFossen asked the audience, “How has WordPress changed your life?”   She showed some great videos of how lives have been changed by using WordPress as a blogging software application for helping people express their lives.  For me, WordPress has changed my life in two main ways, though not really because of blogging.

1) As a web developer looking to help clients solve their online needs, I’ve found one of the biggest requests I hear is, “How can I get a great looking website THAT’S EASY TO UPDATE for someone with no HTML skills.”   I’ve tried finding the perfect CMS solution for those kind of requests, but keep coming back to WordPress.

You may think of WordPress as a blogging application, but with it’s ability to do “Pages” — separate articles that live outside of your scrolling blog posts — it can be used a very effective CMS (Content Management System).   Pages can be those things that most static-HTML sites have; Contact Us, About Us, Resources, etc.   Those pages that don’t change all that often.   And, these “pages” can have sub-pages, just like static-HTML sites.  (In other words, About Us, could have subpages of; Mission Statement, and Organizational Structure, for example.)   Plus, the ability to use the “blogging” aspect of it as the company’s “News” section, helps balance the static with newer updates.

So, for a “blogging” application, WordPress works really well for clients needing a quick, easy-to-update website. And, WordPress’ user-friendly back-end makes even the most jaded clients WANT to try it.

2)  WordPress MU (Multi-User): I work for a large non-profit organization that is often called a “think tank on East-West issues” since we bring in researchers, educators, and leaders from around the world for discussions, lectures, and conferences.   I’ve found that WordPress MU allows me to quickly build a blog site for that conference group very quickly, where they can share their ideas before, during, and after the event.  And with MU’s privacy settings, I can have blogs that are only accessible to those involved in that conference.

These blogs might have the agenda for the conference, or readings for the educational program, or, photos of all the attendees enjoying themselves.   These things can be shared through email, though, having a common spot to post information and ideas which can be referred to later, is really beneficial to the participants.

In other words, WordPress MU provides a quick and easy way to build interaction within small groups of people as they get together, without the “fear” of having their comments and thoughts read by everyone in the world.  And, by having the posts come from the event organizer, the “thread chaos” that happens in forums (multiple conversations on the same topic within different threads) is eliminated.

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For me then, WordPress has been a great solution to help build interaction for both small business owners and small-group participants.   Thanks WordPress!  :)

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]]> http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2008/10/21/how-has-wordpress-changed-your-life/feed/ 0 Get Ready For Hawaii Geek Week: Mactoberfest and more! http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2008/10/01/get-ready-for-hawaii-geek-week-mactoberfest-and-more/ http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/2008/10/01/get-ready-for-hawaii-geek-week-mactoberfest-and-more/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:37:53 +0000 Mark http://www.hawaiiwebconsulting.com/?p=110

Love technology?  Thinking about starting your own blog site?   Curious about Macs?   Check out the Mactoberfest coming up on October 19th.  It’s part of “Hawaii Geek Week“.   Mactoberfest events include: Keynote speaker will be Lorelle VanFossen a WordPress blogger, swap meet, door prizes, and more! Free, on the University of Hawaii, Manoa campus.

And, that week there will be other events including:

See you there!

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