How complicated can web hosting be? Hosting is a commodity, right? Not so fast... While it's true you can get website hosting for $5 a month (sometimes less), just because you can doesn't mean you should. In the following video, taken from the 1st OpenCamp Meet Up, John P. explains the different types of website hosting, the costs associated, and the good and bad of the different options. Web hosting is one of the single most essential aspects of running a website and is the foundation ... Read More →
Remove “Category” From WordPress URL’s with WP No Category Base – Plugin Review
Well-formed URL's are important to usability and SEO. WordPress permalinks give us awesome control over the structure of our base URL's. Combined with well written headlines, we can create catchy, easy to remember, user friendly URL's across our site. However, the base install of WordPress will add the word "category" to your url structure before the actual category name. Having "category" in the middle of your URL is not particularly useful, certainly not pretty and can make URL's longer and ... Read More →
Own Your Website Or Someone Else Will
Own your content, your domain name, your links. In fact, Own Everything I have worked with a number of clients that didn't own their domain names, hosting account, and in some cases didn't even know their credentials. Many of you don't own your own content or assets related to your online presence, and that's a HUGE mistake. While the idea of truly "controlling" anything online is a bit of a misnomer, to the extent you can exercise ownership you should. Your Domain I've recently worked ... Read More →
WP Engine – Rock Solid WordPress Hosting
As vsellis.com has continued to grow the need for a very solid hosting platform has become increasingly important. After maintaining my own server for a few years, and not being particularly good at it, I started looking around for managed hosting. About that time, friend Aaron Brazel started work with a specialized WordPress host, Austin based WP Engine. WP Engine, as described on their site: "We created WP Engine because we needed it ourselves. WordPress is the best blogging software and ... Read More →
The Secret of Building Successful Business Relationships
Every business owner can tell you the importance of differentiating your business. In social media circles, we talk about "building relationships" and "building trust." We know doing those things will rock our business but we get stuck on the "how." And execution is what really matters. The one way sure way to do all of the above.... be a problem solver. If you improve one skill, resolve to do one thing or empower employees in one way, problem solving should be it. Seems painfully ... Read More →