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Speech Writing Pro

Bradley Charbonneau — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:45:40 PST

Kevin Ferguson wanted a new site for his professional speech writing blog. Step up to the mike: Speech Writing Pro.

Absolute Control

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:10:56 PST

Seph Paul wanted a site for his professional organizer practice. We found him a beautiful layout, customized the banner to his liking and colors and voila: he's up and running.

Adults on the Autism Spectrum

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:09:31 PST

Nancy Perry wanted a platform to help promote her book, "Adults on the Autism Spectrum." With design help from Tim Johnson, we created a clean, smart, and useful site for the author and her book.

iThemes

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:53 PST

I seem to almost go back to the drawing board every time I'm looking for a new theme (layout/design) for a client. Working together with Lauren Deane for a current client, we found a theme that the client was going to love.

Living Abroad in Costa Rica Blog

Bradley Charbonneau — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:16:09 PST

Erin Van Rheenen needed a blog site to work alongside her main site so she could easily blog from the road. With Laurie King at the marketing and strategy helm, we did just that.

Young’s Travel Services

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:04:04 PST

Ellen Young (youngstravelservices.com) needed a site for her travel services. Gil Zeimer, copywriter extraordinaire (zeimer.com) worked the copy and provided the far-away photos and Likoma put it all together with a one-way-ticket to WordPress.

Todd Coaching

Bradley Charbonneau — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:47:55 PST

Working together with The M-Line and Tim Johnson, we put together a beauty of a site for Todd Coaching (toddcoachingexcellence.com). From custom fields for thumbnails to pulling in certain categories pulled into a home page widget, this site has bells and whistles written all over it. But at first glance, you're not overwhelmed with the bells or the whistles, you just get: professional and elegant.

Collage Gallery

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:36:54 PDT

The Collage Gallery (collage-gallery.com) needed a site they could update easily but also show off the beauty of the work. Working together with John Muldoon (thewatermarkgroup.org), we gathered up Delisa's best shots from her gallery, stapled on an easy-to-navigate framework, glued it all together with a bit of WordPress and we were open for business.

Adding or removing members from Mailman mailing list software

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:12:09 PDT

Mailman (usually provided for free with a cPanel backend control panel on Unix hosting) does a good job with mailing lists. This is one-to-all email, not necessarily a newsletter that everyone in the group can use. Pretty simple software, but it works well. Here's a quick video showing how to add a new member to a list or remover an existing member from a list.

Manual WordPress install on cPanel

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:20:37 PDT

A how-to screencast on intstalling WordPress onto a UNIX server using cPanel. Set up the database, set up a user, add the user to the database, upload the zip file, unzip, go to the URL, done.

Julie Gorton

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:46:58 PDT

Julie Gorton (juliegortonsart.com) needed a simple site to show a gallery of her work. WordPress + SimpleViewer and done. SimpleViewer creates a beautiful slide show of images that are easy to update. It does a nice job of using a simple backend to still create a Flash slide show.

WordPress Tutorial (2.8.4) Statistics and Keywords

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:00:25 PDT

Overview of the dashboard stats and then deeper statistics provided by the wordpress.com stats plugin. Quickly go over the different areas of the stats (Referrers, Top Posts & Pages, Search Engine Terms, Clicks, and Incoming Links) and then a bit of analysis of the keywords. Finally, a very brief example of how to put those keywords to use in a particular post using the All-in-One SEO plugin.

WordPress Tutorial (2.8.4) Lifestyle Theme, Adding Images, Thumbnails, etc.

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:24:02 PDT

A quick overview of Brian Gardner's StudioPress Lifestyle theme. I walk through adding/changing the thumbnail images on the home page (resizing), adding text, image, and "featured text" to the Featured Content Gallery on the home page, editing some basic text formatting in a post and finally using the Random Quotes plugin.

Adding Photos to PhotoNexus WordPress Theme

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:47:23 PDT

In this WordPress tutorial, I’ll show you how to add photos to your galleries for the PhotoNexus theme for WordPress. I’ll also show you how to add a new gallery (category) and then sort the categories in the sidebar. Click image to left to view video.

ME’DI.ATE

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:29:17 PDT

Mediate needed a site that could let them easily post their video, have a smart design, and have a few content pages as well. They found the "Video" theme by Quommunication and we were on our way.

Thesis WordPress Theme

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:14:36 PDT

The Thesis Theme for WordPress is a high-quality template system that you can use to improve your site immediately.

Foster Travel Publishing

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:39:09 PDT

Lee Foster was looking to overhaul his travel writing and travel photography site. He had quite a complex set up with CNAME entries leading to custom URLs at PhotoShelter, a custom shopping cart that worked with PayPal, 250+ articles with loads of text, images, slideshows, and a blog at TypePad? Whew. Ready?

WordPress Tutorial (2.8.4) Your Profile (and Extended Profile)

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:30:08 PDT

Need to update your password, email address, phone number, business name or other contact information on your WordPress website? Here's how.

TheatreFIRST goes backstage for a makeover

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:38:49 PDT

TheatreFIRST (theatrefirst.com) needed a fresh new look. Creative Mint took the design lead and Likoma teamed up with Tim Johnson Design to put all of the design goodness into action.

Ugo Baldassari

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:13:53 PDT

Ugo Baldassari needed a professional site for his real estate practice. With Paschal Sabatella at the creative design helm and WordPress in the engine room, we together came up with ugo4homes.com.

How 2 Benefit

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:48:08 PDT

Julianne Howard needed a rebranding of her MLH Training site and marketing materials. Together with Lauren Deane Evans, we put up a new logo, a new site, and new brochures.

Straight To DVD Movies

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:01:31 PDT

Straight To DVD Movies (www.straight2dvdmovies.com) needed some video, some "Featured Posts" and David knows what he's doing, so he really just needed me to find a WordPress theme that was easy to use, looked great, and was flexible for the tons of content he's going to be putting up there.

Personal Checks with Your Own Photos

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:15:37 PDT

I needed some new checks (because I write at least 4 per year and I haven't ordered in six years ... ) but I went through the zillions of images of cute dogs and panoramic vistas and just couldn't find anything I wanted on my checks.

Sin and Syntax

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:55:49 PDT

Constance Hale needed a site to help promote her book and classes. She also wanted to able to write a blog and edit the content of her site.

Professional Photographers of the Greater Bay Area

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:30:30 PDT

The Professional Photographers of the Greater Bay Area (ppgba.org) needed a revamp because only a technical few could update the legacy backend software on the site.

The M-Line Blog

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:12:03 PDT

The M-Line Branding wanted a blog to match their site. Together we matched up their header, customized the sidebars to show the latest posts from selected categories, and they now have a seamless blog to supplement their site.

Spencer Rosen

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:34:31 PDT

Spencer Rosen needed a professional, clean and lean site for his strategic consulting practice. He had his Table of Contents/Sitemap ready to go, a PowerPoint with some layout directions, add a generous helping of WordPress and we're rolling.

Bay Area Travel Writers

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:34:57 PDT

Bay Area Travel Writers had been using a custom-coded website for many years and worked very well ... until the custom coder was too busy to help. Combining Memberclicks and WordPress, they're back in action and just about anyone with a browser and a knowledge of cut and paste can add content.

Northgate Chiropractic

Bradley Charbonneau — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:32:37 PDT

Northgate Chiropractic (northgatechiro.com) wanted the same look, but needed the ability to update their site easily — or at all. With Gil Zeimer at the copywriting and project management helm, it was 1, 2, WordPress = done. Before After

Moving WordPress from one sub-directory to another

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:30:30 PDT

I needed to move a site from the sub-directory /wordpress/to the new one /blog/. No worries: bit of an .htaccess file edit and I should be set, right? Not so fast.

WordPress Tutorial: Adding a Hyperlink

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:47:07 PDT

Using the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editing in WordPress, it's easy to add a link to your site's page/post/content. Watch the screencast to see it magically done before your eyes.

StudioPress Revolution WordPress Themes

Bradley Charbonneau — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:35:01 PST

Brian Gardner over at (what's now called) StudioPress has a beautiful collection of professional WordPress themes for sale. He updates them regularly and has a broad collection with a variety of applications (real estate, photo galleries, etc.).

Bob Cooper

Bradley Charbonneau — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:24:22 PST

Bob Cooper (bob-cooper.com) just wanted a "resume" site. Just a quick list of what he writes, some of his writing, and maybe a few articles posted here and there. Easy enough, right?