If you’re one of the millions who travel 2 hours to work each day and the same amount of time back, you’ve doubtless occasionally envied those who work from home. I certainly did. I’ve now worked at home for more than 2 years, and I love it. But it does require some self-imposed discipline that [...]
I love flying, but I hate travelling by air. The entire process becomes more unpleasant every year. So when I had to travel to the UK recently for a family emergency, I determined to use a different approach: instead of taking a direct flight with mediocre service and uncomfortable seats, I decided to break the [...]
The economy has changed, fundamentally and forever. The consumer driven economy that grew through the early 2000′s came crashing down in 2008. It was a debt-fuelled growth and, as always happens, the chickens eventually came home to roost. Since 2008 a lot of us have felt a lot of pain. Consumer spending has been slashed [...]
I often see questions asking how to convert an HTML website to WordPress and, back here, I covered some of the things you need to think about before doing so. Anyway, I recently converted an old HTML site to WordPress so I figured I’d set out the step-by-step process – so here it is: Overview [...]
I wrote back here about why I started using Gmail as my email client (instead of Outlook or Thunderbird) and here about how to set it up. But I didn’t cover how to set up a professional signature. If you’re running your own business, having a professional email signature is a necessity. Not only does [...]
I wrote back here about moving my email to Gmail and how, by setting it up correctly, no one will ever know. You can make it absolutely transparent (so it appears to be coming from your own servers) and it’s easy to set up and link an effective signature. But I didn’t describe how to [...]
I’m currently working with a client on the second version of an eCommerce site. The first version had a clean, attractive design, but it suffered from a slow load time and numerous little glitches. And sales have been extremely disappointing. A large part of the reason for the poor performance of the site is the [...]
Update: If you’re looking for the step-by-step process for migrating an HTML site to WordPress you can find it here. Original article starts here: Just recently I’ve seen a few questions in a couple of the forums asking about moving an existing HTML static website to WordPress. As big a fan as I am of [...]