Is your website or blog down and unavailable? If you don’t monitor you won’t know whether your site is up or down. You certainly don’t want to wait for your customers to tell you. http://mon.itor.us/ offers free and paid server monitoring. They offer a valuable service which I use to monitor the HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, [...]

Your website or blog is up and running smoothly and you should keep it that way. Here is one tool to make it is a little easier to keep your blog or website is running well.  This is the first in a series of posts. Domain Name Your domain name is the foundation. Without it [...]

February 5th, 2010 the following presentation was offered to an engaged audience of entrepreneurs at LaunchCamp Boston. The presentation covers four major areas Domain Names How to Choose How to Register How to Retain Why use WordPress for a website (even without a blog) SEO Key Word Research Local SEO Directories Citations and Links Website [...]

Don and I took an idea and turned it into a WordPress blog during one business day.  Here is how we did it. The Idea There has been a significant rise in the number of requests to move blogs to WordPress.  I was dealing with three clients in one week on this subject and figured [...]

How the IE6 beast was tamed There is no immunity to the folly of Internet Explorer 6.   You can even find a website devoted to the demise of IE6.  JBS Partner’s first Drupal project fell victim to IE6.  After the brand new website went live, we learned that the majority of the client’s visitors [...]

Wondering what’s needed to start your own web site? Thinking that a website will benefit your business? Here are the components of getting a web site on the Internet. Here is a quick summary. Define your purpose and target audience Domain Name Hosting Web Site design images text functionality Key Word Research Link Building Internet [...]