Cahill Solutions Group - Dev http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com Helping Small Business Grow Through Technology Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:15:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My New Post http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CahillSolutionsGroup/~3/ZbT8JoE6mEc/ http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com/2012/my-new-post/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:14:45 +0000 Dan http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com/?p=454 This is my new post. Check it out.

]]> http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com/2012/my-new-post/feed/ 0 http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com/2012/my-new-post/ WordPress – What Is It http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CahillSolutionsGroup/~3/EAETWkV80k8/ http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com/2011/wordpress-what-is-it/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:41:16 +0000 Dan http://cahillsolutionsgroup.com/?p=185 WordPress has become the choice of many small and large based businesses since its release back in May of 2003. Over the past eight years WordPress has proven itself not only with die hard bloggers but also with companies looking for a versatile platform which can grow as their business grows. It’s estimated that WordPress has been downloaded over 33 million times, which doesn’t include all of the times people have installed it through their web hosting cPanel.

Essentially WordPress is both a blogging platform as well as a full blown website.  This means it now has the functionality to provide anything from a simple blogging solution all the way through to a full blown content system or an e-commerce site.

Today people are using WordPress in a variety of ways all around the world:

  • Blogs
  • Full Web Sites
  • News, Magazine, Business, Portfolio and Multimedia Sites
  • Membership Sites
  • Landing Sales Pages
  • Squeeze Pages
  • E-commerce

WordPress uses a combination of Posts and Pages to allow users to generate content on their site.

  • Posts are displayed in chronological order and are commonly used for blog entries.
  • Pages are hierarchy in nature and mainly used for static content pages. Some people prefer to build their site only using pages, while others prefer a combination of both.

There are two types of WordPress found online, Self-Hosted and Hosted:

Self-Hosted
Available from the official WordPress.org website, WordPress can be downloaded manually and made available to the public through your domain and hosting server. WordPress.org is also the main source for themes and plugins as well as support through its thriving community.

Pros:
The advantages of hosting WordPress yourself through your own paid hosting are numerous but essentially it all boils down to “control.” You have a lot more control over your content, advertising and the appearance of your site than you do if you have it hosted by WordPress.com.

  • You have the ability to upload themes
  • Ability to upload plugins
  • Complete control over code if you want to change something

Cons:

  • You have to pay for hosting
  • It does require you to be a bit more technical-minded
  • You have to stop spam
  • You have to back up your site
  • You have to upgrade the software

Hosted
The second option allows a person to have WordPress.com take care of all the hosting for them for free, very similar to blogger.com, WordPress.com provides users with a URL which looks like this: blogname.WordPress.com and then stores all their content on their server at no cost to the user.

Pros:
Certainly there are a number of benefits to having someone else take care of the technical aspects of running a WordPress site:

  • It costs nothing
  • It’s free and easier to setup
  • Less technical as all setup, upgrades, spam management and backups are done for you
  • Your site is on a high-end server so the probability of it going down is slim
  • All posts are backed up
  • Possibility of getting increased traffic from WordPress.com blogs of the day

Cons:
Now there are more companies running their own self-hosted version of WordPress than there are companies who have chosen to have WordPress.com take care of it, for some of the following reasons:

  • Limited amount of themes
  • Lack of customization due to restrictions on accessing code
  • You cannot upload plugins which extend the capability of WordPress
  • Branding issues
  • Lack of control
  • Risk of content loss
]]> http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com/2011/wordpress-what-is-it/feed/ 0 http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com/2011/wordpress-what-is-it/ Evernote – Brain on Steroids http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CahillSolutionsGroup/~3/tbAbB5O04y0/ http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com/2011/evernote-brain-on-steroids/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:04:34 +0000 Dan http://cahillsolutionsgroup.com/?p=44 Evernote is one of my favorite tools.   It is my storage cabinet for everything that I keep everything in.

**  Lot’s of space

** Able to recall everything

** No more paper – the green way to go.

Everyone must get Evernote.

]]> http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com/2011/evernote-brain-on-steroids/feed/ 0 http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com/2011/evernote-brain-on-steroids/ Welcome to CSG http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CahillSolutionsGroup/~3/2CQRcjcE89s/ http://www.cahillsolutionsgroup.com/2011/welcome-to-csg/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:05:45 +0000 Dan http://cahillsolutionsgroup.com/?p=35 Welcome to Cahill Solutions Group blog.  This is where we will be highlighting new and useful technologies that we believe will help small businesses of all types.  The is so much technology out there it can be overwhelming for the small business owner who is trying to run his/her business on a day to day basis.

Here at CSG we have over 20 years of technology consulting experience helping businesses both large and small so we have seen what works and what doesn’t.  Please check back often to see what we have discovered that might help you.

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