Rob McGuire Online — The mind of Rob McGuire, now in bite sized pieces

I Have Been Busy

February 25, 2010

I’ve been crazy busy for the past several weeks. Well, I’ve been pretty slammed with work since the start of the year, hence the sudden lack of any new posts. I apologize for that and should be getting back to posting regularly very soon.

{ 0 comments }

The Awful Truth With Vendor Client Relationships

February 4, 2010

in Marketing

This video is true in every way possible. If you own or operate a business then this is for you. And this is especially true for freelance web designers/developers. Enjoy!

{ 0 comments }

New Wordpress Hack On The Loose

February 3, 2010

I received an email from someone this morning asking me to correct a problem on their Wordpress site. This in of itself is not unusual, but what I found when I went to their site was unusual. In fact, it was cause for alarm.
The design issue was easy enough to fix, but I received warning [...]

Read the full article →

How To Get Your Website Text Images Indexed Just Like Real Text

January 29, 2010

Many times when you are designing and building a website you will want to use an image of text instead of actual text. You do this because many times the fonts used for the web just don’t look the way you want them to. This is a common and proper way of doing things but [...]

Read the full article →

Backup Your Wordpress Blog Or Pay The Price Later

January 25, 2010

Being the resident computer expert in the family, I found myself over at my father-in-law’s house yesterday with the purpose of ridding his home PC from the icy cold grip of a few computer viruses. What I had hoped would be a quick process turned into a lengthy and frustrating procedure that lasted until the [...]

Read the full article →

It Is Better To Have Your Own Blog

December 21, 2009

I ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a while this weekend and he expressed to me his plan to start a blog and jump into this “new blogging thing”. He sounded pretty enthusiastic about it and we talked a little about how he was going to go about getting into blogging. He had [...]

Read the full article →

5 Quick Tweaks To Improve Your Wordpress Blog

December 18, 2009

Wordpress is great right out of the box, but the default setup leaves many areas for improvement. Here are just 5 things you could do to boost performance, SEO or usability.
Boost your page serving speed
You can use a caching plugin to speed up your blog, but you could also add a snippet of code to [...]

Read the full article →

Persistence Is Required For Blogging Success

December 17, 2009

Over at Salemites the other day the one and only Salem Man made a great point on what it takes to build a popular blog and that is persistence. Persistence is the underlying key to so many things that go into turning a blog that only your mother reads into something that is read and [...]

Read the full article →