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Wordpress as a blogging platform is just about as awesome as it gets. The same thing goes for Magento and ecommerce platforms - it's second to none. But what if you need both ecommerce and a blogging platform? Magento has a variety of plugins that may work, but none of them are really as good as Wordpress.  The same goes for Wordpress - there are options out there that will work, but don't have the features or power that Magento has. So why not combine them? 

That's exactly what you can do now....

Building your website can be a lot like building a house:  Even though the initial construction may be finished, you're just getting started. I know this from my own experience building websites - not only for myself, but for my clients too.  And if you're doing it right it's really a labor of love, but it's still labor.  Getting off the ground is one thing but making your site awesome is entirely another.  

Today that's what I'm talking about on the show. Most of this stuff is from my personal experience ...

Websites can be a bit daunting when you look at what some of the huge ones out there are doing - Amazon.com, Yahoo!, MSN, etc., but they all have three elements in common and that is what today’s episode is all about. From the smallest site, to the largest every single website must address three issues: technology, design, and content.

Sure, you can talk about e-commerce, but that’s really a technology issue. And you might say that branding and marketing are core categories, but they’re really associated with content and design. Marketing? Sure, but on-site marketing is really...

As you may have noticed in the last couple posts I've been talking about how professionalism is a key success factor for any website. You want it to look good, be easy to use, and present your business as a competent, reliable company. Nothing new there, right? However when you're working on these projects on your own it's not quite as easy.  You can always buy a premium theme, but then you run the risk of having your site look exactly like every other site that purchased that theme and you don't really have that much control over it unless you are going to go under the hood and tweek the...