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Why traditional website publishing is dead (and why you should use Wordpress or similar CMS instead)

Summary: This articles discusses the benefits of using a Content Mangement System (CMS) such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, DotNetNuke, etc, for creating your website; and compares the new technology to the old way of creating a website, that involved using a web designer and a static html site that went through various stages (mockup, conversion [...]

How to find a good WordPress theme for your business or corporate website

This is an important decision for several reasons:

Your site’s appearance (“look and feel”) is determined by your theme.  A good theme will make the difference between a professional-looking site and one that isn’t.
You should choose your theme fairly soon after you begin your site, since it does have an impact on how you create your [...]

How to resize and and publish images (or other rich content such as video) to a WordPress blog in one step using Windows Live Writer

Summary: Windows Live Writer is a marvelous tool for creating rich content on WordPress offline.   It is much more powerful than the built-in web-based WordPress editor and is particularly useful when publishing text with a lot of images or video.  With Live Writer, you create your content offline and publish it using WordPress’s built-in XML-RPC [...]

Using FeedBurner or FeedBlitz for your newsletter (mailing list management system) on WordPress

Summary: This article discusses using the Feedburner or Feedblitz services, in conjunction with your WordPress blog, to publish / manage your company newsletter (mailing list management system).  It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this system, compared to competitive newsletter management systems such as Constant Contact, Emma, Aweber, Vertical Response, etc.

Installing/Integrating bbPress and a a script-install of WordPress into the same database, for sharing users

I found significant problems with the bbPress documentation on integrating bbPress into a WordPress site, which had me puzzling for well over an hour.  Here is what I did in the end: