Back in 1999, I helped Dr. Thomas Naughton launch his first website to accompany his new Medicoloegal Consulting business, Abbygrey West Consulting. A busy Family Practice physician for over 15 years, Dr. Naughton thought he would take a leap and try his hand at self-employment and put some of his knowledge and expertise into some legal consulting to see how it would fly. It flew… indeed. 8 years later, I’ve re-launched his new look and format and brought him up to date by using WordPress to power his website. . . Keep reading

WPAssist.Com is a comprehensive WordPress resource site and companion site to the newly released book: WordPress For Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson. Yes, I designed this site myself and wanted to include it here on my Design Blog to bring attention to this new WordPress resource, news and information site. . . Keep reading

Wishing everyone a happy summer - are you able to get out and enjoy the great weather? Here in Wisconsin, I welcome the 80 degree weather after a long winter! Lots has been going on around here that I wanted to give you a few updates about - it’s been a pretty exciting year, so far! Let’s see…. Keep reading

As I promised previously on this blog, I finally have pre-sale information for the WordPress for Dummies book that I am currently writing for Wiley Publishing! Publishing day is still a few months off - however, the project is nearing completion and I am now beginning to actually see light at the end of the tunnel!… Keep reading

A while ago, I posted about some exciting things brewing around here. I’ve slowly crossed things off my to do list as we head into the holidays. My new year is about to become very exciting and very busy! I’ve been sitting on this little bit of news for the last month, until I was positive that it was offical… Keep reading

Folks already know about Google’s Blog Search service. A few months back, I started noticing a lot of hits coming from there to this site. See, Google’s Blog Search monitors some of the popular ping services … Keep reading

Recently, I’ve had several clients request information on monetizing their blog - - what’s “monetizing” mean? Basically - you can make money with your blog by doing a few easy things that I’m going to list out for you here in a minute…. Keep reading

We’re thrilled to annouce the launch of a new design at Blogs About Hosting! Along with the new look - we’ve rolled out our new and improved hosting packages, available immediately. We’ve up’d the ante on all the good stuff - while at the same time, kept the prices the exact same as before.

More stuff. Same cost. Gotta love it!

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We’re happy to annouce the launch of our newest venture: Blog Image Host. Simply, it is a image and photo hosting service that was born from requests from many of our clients looking to a.) save space on their current hosting account by having a free image resource available and b.) provide space to our Blogspot users to host… Keep reading

It’s no secret that the majority of our clients here at E.Webscapes choose WordPress as their Content Management System (Blogging Platform) of choice. I’ve been contacted by the developers of Movable Type and TypePad, who wanted to know why? Asking if it was because we persuade our clients in one direction, or another. … Keep reading

WordPress has released the stable version of 2.0. This much awaited release is definitley worth the wait!

WordPress.org has information on upgrading. The WordPress Codex has information on compatible plugins with 2.0… Keep reading

Many times, when we speak of web standards, we’ll questions about what that means, exactly. It can mean different things to different people… anything from cross-browser compatibility (ensuring your design looks the same in different types of browsers like IE, FireFox or Safair) to XHTML compliance within the code. … Keep reading