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From here on out until I’m satisfied I’ll be blogging through the process of revamping the WordPress Default theme into a new home for my blog.
WP Default has good bones and was based on Kubrick, another theme with good bones; it will provide a good foundation. If I keep to the same [...]

This is a tribute to all my “moms” and all my “kids,” and an encouragement to be the drop in a bucket that tipped the scales that helped someone know they’re good, good, good just as they are.
Sometimes kids are like visiting deer. Certain telltale signs show how connected we are, no matter how [...]

A massage therapist gets a phone call:
Hello. I was referred to you by my doctor. I work long hours at a desk and…
Before the massage therapist hears another word, he is anticipating a series of topics. He already has an idea of which complaints are likely, and which muscle and nerve groups [...]

I have a post in the works about trust and marketing, and I’m stuck.
I have issues. Specifically, I have issues with advertisers who don’t get that marketing is hand in glove with trust. I’m going to clear the air.
Yes, it’s true. I am going to rant. I’d put this [...]

Not so long ago I was trembling with trepidation over Twitter. It’s only been a few days, and I’m already hooked. Hooked and recommending it to others.
I’m Your Pushermom

I’m your Mama,
I’m your Daddy
I’m that blogger
In the alley
I’ll connect you
When in need
Want some clicks?
Have some tweets
You know me,
Get my feed
Your green thumbed
Stumble Mum
I’m your [...]

My nofollow comment status is coming down.
Dofollow Comments as a Linking Philosophy
A good conversation is worth fistfulls of gofollows or nofollows or any kind of follows. Why? Because people who have participated in or read a good conversation on a blog are likely to come back and do it again. Unlike Search [...]

How many dozen screens has this potato passed through since it was last touched by human hands? And yet, in our mind’s eye it’s touchable, as fresh as it was the day it was first “screened.” You can almost smell it.
Let’s Play Pass the Idea
Yesterday I passed on an IM about a Stumble [...]

Recent ups and downs in my RSS subscriber numbers are making me curious. I’m wondering if there is an unmet need for information that would help bloggers who combine “green” or cause marketing with the usual WordPress-and-content stuff.
Early in the morning on April 22nd I published Cre8Green: Small Steps for Big [...]

Whenever WordPress sends out notice that an update includes a security fix, I install it on my own blog right away, for two reasons.

That phrase security fix
I want to know how it acts on my blog, before I need to use it on someone else’s

The folks at WordPress are telling us that WP 2.5.1 includes [...]

Yup. That’s me. Empty nest and all, I am forever “Mom.”
::waves to a certain grown one who sometimes reads this blog::
I, the Mom afore mentioned, mentioned in my 101 Day Round Up earlier this month that I was up for doing a little documented WordPress theme redesign, starting with the WordPress default theme [...]

Yesterday Cre8asite had a brief fling with free beer.

I believe that the ability of a title tag and description tag to pull an unusual number of clicks in the SERPs is one of the most powerful parts of SEO. It can certainly yield traffic, put people in a certain mood… and the search engines might [...]

My measures of success are a little different than most blogs. Though I like traffic and subscribers, at least a little, at this point my priorities are more towards personal connection, enjoying writing and the occasional nerd post. I’m all about the personal value judgment.
I did promise some statly benchmarks, so here [...]

On Thursday last week I mentioned having a secret. By now you’ve probably figured out that my clue-comment about “cousin Cre8asite in the kitchen with the team” had something to do with cooking up the idea for Cre8Green Week.
A few days ago Kim Krause Berg, our fearless leader at Cre8asite Forums, had [...]

You know, life is fickle, or maybe it’s just me. All together now, “It’s just you, Elizabeth. It’s all on you. You’re the only one who hears the voices. Nobody understands. You are totally, uniquely, unintelligibly…”
Heh.
Ever had one of those weeks when everything feels settled, the hard questions are anwered-ish [...]

Question: What did I want from my 101 days?
Answer: A sense of direction. An orientation beyond web design.
Question: Why couldn’t I just pick some keywords to write about? Use that to form a bridge between my beloved web stuff and a prospective audience?
Answer: Because keywords are only a part of the picture. [...]

I’m here with you and the spirit of WordPress, writing away on a gorgeous Spring weekend, to sum up a little of what’s gone on here over the last 101 days, and get reader feedback for some plans I’m cooking up for this site’s theme.

My hope is to arrive at how the [...]

When an Internet marketing professional sees the phrase “blog post ideas” they’ll automatically think of two things: keywords and users. The hard core technology avoider lives on a different island; they are instantly lost. Only the hearty among them will ask, “What is a keyword, and what is a user?”
You and I know [...]

Nature fumbles all the time. Things break. Early sprouts freeze and die back. Erosion takes down hillsides, even hillsides where humans have not clearcut. In the long run, our trying to catch up with nature is what ends up looking more damaged. Nature has built-in ways to compost and recycle [...]

I have a friend who is not a fan of things computer. For a long, long time, I’ve been encouraging him to put his business online. He is very good at what he does, and he’s no dummy. After hearing two or three unfamiliar terms from an explanation of how a web [...]

I have a love-hate relationship with living in Western Washington. Six months of the year we’re wet and gray and I am a poster child for S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder,) unless I’m glued to my computer, and then I forget about everything. I emerge from my cave about this time each year, squinting [...]

I want this blog to be open-ended. I don’t want to make content for a defined goal, in the traditional sense of writing to serve the audience of a niche. I want my “niche” to be my fascination with how connections happen online… or basically whatever makes me think, and I’m a pretty [...]

Yesterday WordPress 2.5 became the latest stable release. I upgraded, and it was good.
If you want to get a sneak peek before performing the deed yourself, head on over to the WordPress 2.5 announcement. You’ll see that wordpress.org has a fresh new look, and that fresh new look is also the look of [...]

A while ago I noticed something slightly broken about the StumbleUpon toolbar. The send-to function doesn’t always make it all the way through to the recipient. It can take hours, or seem to vanish completely.

StumbleUpon Toolbar with a sent page waiting
Social Media, Social Testing
I got online with a few people I [...]

I’ve been reading and writing a lot about developing a personal sense of branding and identity since the first week of January. Before getting too busy with planned content generation for my new blog I wanted to feel out what matters to me on a gut level: inner mission first, then building a brand [...]

All branding that works is personal, because it makes some sort of personal connection.
Sometimes personal is manufactured. Betty Crocker was a creation that represented a corporate brand.
Sometimes, “personal” seems to spontaneously ooze from the people behind the brand. Joe and Mark, the two enterprising yard care teens who [...]

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