From the category archives:

Managing Websites

How to Change Your Navigation with the Thesis Theme

February 8, 2010
How to Change Your Navigation with the Thesis Theme

If you’ve been reading my posts then you know that I use the Thesis theme for the WebBriefcase website. The main reason I like it is because it makes it easy to optimize and monetize my blog. It also has many features that make otherwise  tedious tasks something to look forward too. Seriously.
In this post, [...]

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Choosing a CMS to Run Your Membership Site

April 9, 2009

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When I first started the WebBriefcase.net site, my first choice for managing content was Wordpress. At the time though, Wordpress was just not powerful enough for what I had in mind i.e. run a video tutorial membership site. So, I moved to Joomla. Although Joomla was simple enough to learn and [...]

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Easy To Use Online Password Manager

June 6, 2008
Easy To Use Online Password ManagerEasy To Use Online Password Manager

PassPack is an online password manager that allows you to store all your login details in one convenient place. Tools like these are definitely very useful for any webmaster since with a growing business comes more and more scribbled notes of paper that contain passwords, login details and lists.

With a true one click login you [...]

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Customize Your WordPress Blog

May 30, 2008

WordPress is the preferred choice blogging platform for a lot of bloggers these days. The other day, WordPress celebrated their fifth birthday and they have certainly come a long way since they started out.
When bloggers first download their WordPress theme, they often don’t know what to do to customize the looks of their blog [...]

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When Demographics Matter For Webmasters

May 13, 2008
When Demographics Matter For Webmasters

If you are anything like me you would probably wonder what our readers want to know from us. What makes them click, act, comment and interact with our blog’s community?

This is especially of importance for new webmasters and blog masters, since unless we know what makes our readers tick, it is highly unlikely that we [...]

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Building Link Clusters

April 25, 2008
Building Link ClustersBuilding Link Clusters

If you blog to reach amazing heights in the search engines you might be interested in this particular post about building link clusters. Link clusters are site wide links that point from older posts to newer ones and vice versa.
Before you start out, you will first need to know which keyword you actually target. It [...]

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Finding Good Content for Your Website

August 15, 2007

In order to keep bringing search engines and traffic your way, your website needs to boast good content. But that doesn’t mean you have to sit down for hours on end to write great articles for your web pages. Instead, try some of these popular content generating techniques and strategies.
Content Generation

Hire ghostwriters to help with [...]

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Ditch Your HTML Editor for a CMS

March 16, 2007

So, you have your own web site. Fantastic! What was that? You use Dreamweaver? Superb! No? Not superb? Let me guess. You’ve building web page after web page and your site now consist of 50+ webpages with the numbers going up. And you’re pulling your hair out trying to keep all that content under control. [...]

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Buzz-Monitoring and Tracking Tools

November 25, 2006

Smashing Magazine just posted what they call the best buzz-monitoring, observing and tracking tools a web-developer might be willing to use analyzing and monitoring his/her recent web-projects. Although targeted towards web developers, this list can be used by anyone who owns and runs a web site.
You’d like to improve the link popularity of your site. [...]

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Web Site Statistics with Google Analytics

October 6, 2006

Finally! I’m part of the group that checks my web site statistics with Google Analytics. It’s time to dive in and check out what the big hoo haa is all about. And I must say, my first impression is – Wow, this is a free web site statistics program taken to a new level.
I signed [...]

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