Ever noticed how when you published a post (you have published something, right?), a thumbnail and mini-bio of you, the author, shows up under the post? That happens either manually (which is not all that easy) or more automatically using a Gravatar. A what-a-tar? You mean blue aliens versions of my persona? Slow down, partner, [...]
About Bradley Charbonneau
Website development that empowers you to control the content on your own website. At Likoma, we build sites that are easily updatable so you can rank higher with the search engines as you regularly add new articles, case studies, or anything else new and useful, to your own website -- using just a login name and password.Does a blog help my website’s SEO?
Almost every time I build a new site for a business, I get the question, “Would having a blog help my website’s SEO?” The quick answer is, “Yes.” The long answer is “Yes, if it matters.”
21 Actions to Set Your Site Up for Massive Success
Here’s a sit-down-and-get-to-work post that holds nothing back, doesn’t make it sound easy, but gives you the guidelines, the tools, and the step-by-step processes to start getting some real traffic to your site
Add an article to the BNI Embarcadero website
Here’s a quick, less than two minutes, how to video that will walk you through adding content to the BNI site.
Looking for content for your site? Try your inbox.
If you can’t figure out what to write on your site, try looking at your inbox. What did your clients ask you over the past week?
What to Do When a Water Pipe Breaks
How to use backlinks to help traffic to your site. That, and an octopus and a dripping wet bathing suit. Intrigued? Read on.
Likoma Presentation (03/10/10)
Likoma shows some case studies from simple to complex websites.
I sent an email to the mailing list, but I didn’t get a copy of it myself.
If you send an email to the mailing list, you should get a copy yourself UNLESS you use an email service such as Gmail. Gmail, for whatever reason, doesn’t send you back emails that you send out.
Rooftop Elementary School Auction 2010
Your donation is a great way to target 600 Rooftop families, alumni and friends of the school who attend our auction each year. Your gift sends the message that you business is a caring part of a community that supports a whole generation of young learners and budding artists; students who will be the leaders of tomorrow’s San Francisco.
Adding or removing members from Mailman mailing list software
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.
WordPress Tutorial (2.8.4) Statistics and Keywords
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 [...]
Likoma Presentation (09/23/09)
Likoma (website design) presentation to BNI on 09/23/09. Some example clients’ sites, quick case studies, overview of WordPress backend (WYSIWYG, images, text, statistics, etc.).
Carbonite Online Backup
I’m done, it’s settled, I’m backed up online, all the time, no worries, no hassles, no baby pictures lost to the cyber vacuum.
Scam: Business Filings Division
Business Filings Division, Business Filings Division scam, Compliance Annual Minutes Board, statement of information, officers list
Your Extended Profile
Update your company information in just a few minutes by logging in and going to Profile in the left sidebar. It’s painless!
Case Study: PPGBA Switches to WordPress
Mischa Purcell’s 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.
Likoma Presentation (05/27/09)
Fritz shows another method to updating your website.
Tonight’s Party is at Dan’s, not Sharon’s. Do you know?
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Erskine & Tulley Website Re-Do Case Study
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.
I’ll Bring Referrals Now ‘Till I Die
Richard Swan, a BNI member from the UK Tower Hill chapter, is a prolific songwriter and arranger who has played at prestigious events such as the Democrats Abroad Inaugural Ball for Barack Obama, and has produced, arranged and played on songs for many other musical artists.
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Digital Printed Banner for Freaks!
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Service Team of Professionals (STOP)
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BNI Social: Leadership Party! Climbing the Filbert Steps
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James Power, CMT
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Digital Printed Banner for Freaks!
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Service Team of Professionals (STOP)
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BNI Social: Leadership Party! Climbing the Filbert Steps
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Gil Zeimer: Gret looking banner, Marty!!! So glad you take suc...
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