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WORDPRESS WEBSITE OWNER’S CHECKLIST – Get the download!

After the Taking Care of Business Show today I remembered a check list that I often use for keeping track of client’s important site details. What is even more amazing… I found it!

I realized today after chatting with Judy, Bob Carmela & Roseann that EVERYONE should keep these details on file. This is confidential information that should be securely recorded in 3 locations. For example: A hard copy, a digital copy and a version saved or backed up on a back up hard drive. It should be updated whenever it is necessary. If your Web Editor is suddenly unavailable or you have a disaster of some kind these documents will be needed so that the lines of communication can be established with your customers and community as needed. When clients come to us looking for a new and improved site it is very helpful if they know their Host and URL details at the very least. Here is the downloadable PDF: WORDPRESS WEBSITE OWNER’S CHECKLIST , please have your current web designer complete this form for your records so that when the time comes for you or your staff to access your web site, you will be in complete control!
Maybe I should create one for Social media next? …tune in next week. Next week we are talking about social media – Let’s go Google+ Call us with your questions! You will be able to see my see my Guest Posts at FYI Business Consulting & Outsource Services.

Some Fun Racing Designs & Logos for 2013

Check out the graphic for The Bash 2013 10K trail race! The race directer always selects sport performance shirts and he keeps the logo smallish on the front. No sponsor logos on the T’s either. Very cool! It is a very challenging 10K race in Westwoods CT – a race and a running group very close to my heart! Go there now and sign up for the race… www.MrBimble.com

Here is a little preview of a version of my submission for Vermont 100… it is a contest so shhhhh! They usually use a lot of colors on their shirts and this logo is special for the 25th running of the epic event. I love this event and I even base my car purchase on it so that I can camp here, crew for my friends, see the horses, stay up all night, eat at the Vermont stores and just enjoy the vibe for an entire weekend. So fingers are crossed, but if my design is not selected I know it will still be a really fun time and a very special cause. Oh – did I mention the winning design has the option for a free entry into the race… 100 miles in under 30 hours – I wish? What?

One more to post here: This mother nature/tree design is from The Bluff 50K trail race 2012… seemed to be a popular design. Shirts, glass Pitchers and Pints were all included in the swag! The bright red shirts looked great with this imagery. Every year we include a detail of the red and white ribbons used to mark the course. The logo with the bird was from 2012 – it was featured on Navy performance racing shirts in white ink and was also created in a format for the finisher prizes that were metals. Awesome race with an outstanding RD and community, ok, I admit I am a bit biased but it is true!

We’ve got some new square business cards…

It’s a new year, we are developing a new website so, what the heck… new business cards too. I am creating business cards for clients all of the time here.

Check out an example of Global Sport Connection’s traditional shaped new cards (wait until you see the website!) and below see the studio’s new square cards. Custom business cards should be easy to read and yet engaging.

Winter Newsletter & Important Updates for Web Editors

Here is a link to view the 2013 Winter Newsletter, please forward it to anyone you know needs to update their web presence. I will be featuring some of the websites that have and are GOING LIVE this month on the blog. We are also making over this site. Look for a cool new responsive site to appear here over the course of the next 10 days. We are creating some exciting new web sites this season….

Thanks for checking out the Newsletter it contains the latest Guest Blog Post and some other interesting resume tips and video resources.
We have some cool new tools and we will be sharing them with you weekly here on the blog.

Big things are happening in 2013, let’s shake it up!

Cathi

Be The Kite! Book Signing – Kid’s Art Activities – Official Launch Event

Please join me at The Shore Line Trolley Museum for an event produced by The Shoreline Arts Alliance on Saturday September 22nd from 10-4.

We will be drawing with the kids, reading Be The Kite, publishing their artwork on the www.BeTheKite.com website, displaying our giant 3-D book, signing books, selling red diamond kites & books. Artists, Authors and musicians will be featured along with all the different trolleys – a fun day taking in the Arts, the outdoors, Trolleys, and more!

Friends please share this with families and friends that might be interested in this opportunity.

www.BeTheKite.com

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Historic Guilford Walking Tours & more!

We’ve got another LIVE one! Please help us to welcome www.HistoricGuilford.org to the internet. This group is really cool. Here is a little info about their programs…. here is some info from their web site.

“This website, Historic Guilford, is where the Guilford Preservation Alliance’s Heritage Tourism Initiative has its home and serves as a clearinghouse for information about the HTI, its programs and its evolving plans for developing a heritage tourism component to our local economy. This summer’s inaugural tourism program will be our Historic Guilford Walking Tours, which will feature several differently themed walking tours of Guilford’s historic town Green and its environs. The tours will be led by Guilford High School students trained to be thoroughly knowledgeable guides to downtown Guilford’s historic architectural styles, personalities and stories and will introduce interested residents and visitors to Guilford’s unique collection of house museums along its route.”

We are pleased to have created their web site, logo, collateral materials, Facebook page and Twitter page. We strongly encourage you to follow them via twitter so you can get a little tweet every time they update their blog. Lot’s of very interesting things to learn about this local and historically rich community. Thank you Guilford Preservation Alliance for all of your hard work – we all look forward to your blog posts!

Two websites get make-overs! Check it out…

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Often at the start of a new year, business owners begin to plan in terms of what they hope to do better or more of in the coming year. Often that means updating their web presence, adding features & functionality, refreshing the look of an existing site or just plain getting a web presence working for them in general. Here are 2 sites that we updated for the new year…

CELC – Connecticut Experiential Learning Center had a great a site that we created a few years ago including logos, graphics and everything – now their site has had a new theme and some much needed added functionality. Technology is always evolving and we help our clients stay up to date with the latest and the greatest. Check out www.CTexperiential.org!

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Also – we updated a site for www.BeeGreenFoods.com! Her old site had been severely compromised by a plug-in (mostly) with a security issue – plug-in issue was called Tim Thumb. She came to us with a site that was in need of an entirely new theme and some updates regarding content flow, a store and she needed some training so she could manage her site independently. All sites need to be updated periodically. That is best left to the designers and developers who can over-see the plug-ins and the latest versions of themes and WordPress installs. It is important to maintain a site carefully as the site can completely crash if an update is made too soon or if a conflict occurs with plug-ins and themes that have not been updated to play nicely with the latest versions of WordPress or each-other etc etc…. Check it out www.BeeGreenFoods.com!

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Milano’s Day Spa and Salon – GONE LIVE!!

Here is a look at Milano’s of Bloomfield, CT new web site. They wanted a site that was visually pleasing, one that they could synchronize with social medias and one that they could update regularly “in house”…. Their old site was a flash site, completely out dated and frankly it did not reflect the fun place that it is to be.

Check out Milano’s Day Spa and Salon – seriously, go there and treat yourself to a hair cut, manicure or some fun hair extensions! This group loves their work and they were amazing to work with. Special thanks to Carmela for her hard work and enthusiasm!!

When you visit their new site be sure to follow them with Twitter – if you do that you will get a tweet every time they post new content or specials to their blog.

Their social media links are at their new site www.milano-dayspa.com – congrats to Milano’s!!

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After……………… Congrats to Bee Green Foods & the soon to follow Queen Bee Chocolates!

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