Smart Web Strategy, Web Design and Inbound Marketing in Ghana by @Okeros

A Quick Guide to Protecting Your WordPress Powered Website

obsdev — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:13:03 +0000

WordPress is now the open-source CMS of choice. But like any web platform, it isn’t perfect. The responsibility for keeping the installation secure falls solely to you, not to a faraway company. As a designer, I am occasionally asked to peek “under the bonnet” of other WordPress sites, and I tend to go pale when [...]

6 Simple steps to an Effective Web Strategy

obsdev — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:28:42 +0000

With a historic worldwide recession looming and unpredictable business climate a certainty; the most appropriate thing for most businesses to do; is to utilize the internet, but to do so requires an appropriate and correctly executed web strategy. An effective web strategy serves to provide real value for your company or you risk wasting time [...]

5 Smart Ways to Market Your Business on LinkedIn

obsdev — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:41:01 +0000

LinkedIn is the most powerful social networking site to help you grow your business. It makes Twitter, Facebook and YouTube seem like social networking sites for kids. If you want to hang with the big players—a place where connections are made, leads are generated, and deals go down—then you need to spend more of your time on LinkedIn. Although [...]

4 Ways to Get and Stay Noticed on Twitter

obsdev — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:42:19 +0000

Twitter is a dream tool for your business, but it will only work if you know how to engage its users. This is true for every other social media platform you are trying to dominate. 1. Use Twitter to share things that are worth sharing There is a big chance that you are completely consumed [...]

7 Components for a Successful Web Site Redesign

obsdev — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:17:48 +0000

Lately, we’ve had a flurry of clients contacting us about their latest redesign project, wanting to know what advice we can give them. We talk to them, discussing their team’s needs and what is driving the redesign effort. In many cases, we discover the team is thinking only in the short term. Of course, because [...]

Enabling Multi-Site option in WordPress 3.0

obsdev — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:25:31 +0000

WordPress 3.0 is when the big merge happens. The core of WPMU is incorporated in WordPress which means that you can now run multiple blogs from one installation of WordPress. This new feature is being called Network or Multi-site option. By default this feature is disabled. If you want to use this option in your [...]

Facebook deliver a trio of new chat features

obsdev — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:41:45 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg promised “something awesome” for Wednesday’s conference. What Facebook delivered is a trio of new chat features, including the earlier reported Skype-video chat integration. The new features include a redesigned chat interface, group chats, and the aforementioned video chat, all explained on Facebook’s blog. The group chat feature will let users chat with multiple friends at [...]

Why you need a good and secure password

obsdev — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:19:50 +0000

The majority of us are in the habit of committing two major online security no-nos: 1) Using the same password on multiple websites, and 2) Rarely changing the password. These two habits can leave you vulnerable to privacy intrusions and hacking attempts. Consider this: a large majority of websites use your email address as your [...]

Let every word prove their worth

obsdev — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:51:04 +0000

During a discussion with close business friend of mine, she made a comment which got me thinking about what value we really take from the words we read. She noted that many of us spend more than four years learning how to stand out with fancy words and improving our vocabulary, only to throw away [...]

Our new web site is now up

obsdev — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:54:21 +0000

Welcome to our newly redesigned website. please take a look around and get in touch, you will be glad you did.Welcome to our newly redesigned website. please take a look around and get in touch, you will be glad you didWelcome to our newly redesigned website. please take a look around and get in touch, [...]