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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

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?

Jewel and Stoneman

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:22:39 PST

Jewel & Stoneman wanted to be able to update the content on their website. They liked the design of the site, but they couldn't edit the content. Meet Likoma and WordPress.

What’s Up Down Under

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:26:57 PST

Laurie King is at it again. What's Up Down Under is her latest site revival. Was an ancient HTML site, but we brought it back to life with WordPress -- and WAY back to life.

Erskine and Tulley

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:59:49 PST

For the longer-term strategy of future edits, additions, and general content control, we switched their site from a straight HTML site to a content management system using WordPress.

Setting up an email group (or forwarder) in Google Apps

Bradley Charbonneau — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:51:19 PST

Google Apps (for email) used to have simple forwarders, but now they use Groups as forwarders so you can email to more than one person. Lots of options to work with.

Setting up a new email address in Google Apps

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:38:54 PST

You're all set up with Google Apps, loving it, and want to add a new email address. Not just a forwarder, but a real account with POP access and webmail access etc. Here's a step-by-step video to show you how.

Jim Benning’s New Look

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:00:44 PST

Two years ago we did a site for Jim Benning and he wanted a new look for 2009: jimbenning.net. He had a site that he liked the look of in mind, sent me the URL and a few images, and we were off to the drawing board.

An Erotic Alphabet

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:27:36 PST

Laurie King needed yet another site (travelwritersnews.com, laurieking.com, hotflashessexystories.com, batw.org) so we whipped one into shape this afternoon: eroticalphabet.com.

The Young People’s Teen Musical Theatre Company

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:23:55 PST

They had a site and had some information on it The Young People's Teen Musical Theatre Company, but the people who were updating it didn't have much time and only those people knew how to make updates. Sound familiar?

Financial District Dental Care Gets a Cleaning

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:54:49 PST

Michael Hack's Financial District Dental Care first had a site, then a WordPress site, then a custom PHP site, and is now back to WordPress with Likoma.

“You won’t find a better site designer, regardless of your budget.”

Bradley Charbonneau — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:07:22 PST

Bradley designed my site on a tight budget, completing it in record time and with a great deal of strategic long-term thinking.

Prose Doctors

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:44:16 PST

"The Prose Doctors is a great group of editing professionals, and I'd trust my project to them for any procedure--from a basic check-up to a full colonoscopy." -- Jeff Greenwald

Mental Floss

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:14:29 PST

Together with copywriter Gil Zeimer, Likoma created a newsletter for Financial District Dental Care using Mail Chimp: Mental Floss!

WordPress Tutorial: Cleaning Up Microsoft Word Formatting

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:15:14 PST

If you paste content from Microsoft Word (or any formatted content) directly into the editing area of the WordPress backend, chances are a bunch of formatting code will come with it. Here's a video to help clean up the mess.

Mail Chimp

Bradley Charbonneau — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:02:19 PST

Great stats, easy-to-use editor to create your newsletter, love the backend interface, and, well, yeah, funny monkeys hanging around. Also, like Vertical Response, they don't force you to do a monthly plan, but you can pay per recipient only when you send a newsletter.

Erika Mailman writes new books, gets new website

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:32:45 PST

Erika Mailman (erikamailman.com) had new books out and needed a fresh look.

Redirection

Bradley Charbonneau — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:48:35 PST

As often happens, a client wants a link to an external site in a menu list. Sure, I could make a custom (manual) bullet list and make the page names and the links to them or the categories and their links and then just put the name and link to the external site in between. But that wouldn't be pretty.

Carbonite

Bradley Charbonneau — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:51:17 PST

I shied away from online backup because I have backup drives scattered around the house, the office, I make DVDs once in a while, I have portable backup drives, and ach, I'd only lose a few days' work anyway, right? Well, yeah, as long as you really do back up regularly. And as long as your house or office don't burn down or get robbed.

Overnight Prints

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:01:48 PST

I've been using Overnight Prints for years because of their thick business cards and high quality printing. Graphic designers I work with use Overnight Prints for business cards, clients have ordered business cards as well as postcards.

WordPress 2.7 Arrives

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:22:43 PST

Check out this preview video (suitable for all audiences) showing off some of the hot new features of WordPress 2.7.

A New Coat of Paint for Brush Fire Painting Workshops

Bradley Charbonneau — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:53:42 PST

Naomi Rifkin's Brush Fire Painting Workshops (paintbrushfire.org) needed a fresh coat of paint since its life from Dreamweaver to MovableType to WordPress and now to a fresh new look (still in WordPress).

Elegant WordPress Themes

Bradley Charbonneau — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:54:49 PST

You'd think, "Hey, Likoma, you're a WordPress developer, why are you promoting other themes on your site?" Well, in a word: WOW.

That 80’s Blog

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:41:46 PST

Kevin Smokler needed an outlet for his 80's trivia (that80sblog.com). I'm proud to have weaned him from TypePad (at least for this site) and brought him across the aisle to WordPress.

Paradiso Press

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:59:17 PST

Zander Sprague is at it again, this time with Paradiso Press (paradisopress.com). He needed a clean, simple site up and running for his new publishing company. Voila!

10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7

Bradley Charbonneau — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:24:13 PST

Like WordPress 2.5, the bulk of the changes affect the WordPress admin. Unlike WordPress 2.5, however, this is not merely an update of the backend but a complete rebuilding.