Carolyn E. Cooper Communications

4 Free Guides to Online Marketing Planning

carolyn — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:36:52 +0000

Acutually, this for planning online and traditional small business marketing. You really need to integrate your small business marketing efforts for maximum effect. What will it take to have “job security” in the future? Here’s a terrific Op-Ed by Thomas L. Friedman about what has changed in the New Economy and the skills needed to feel financially [...]

Making Money Online for Everyone

carolyn — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:17:08 +0000

Say what you will about the Newsweek slipping in its standards for political and general news reporting (and I certainly do at times), it still produces fine writing on business and social trends. Here’s a wonderfully insightful article the buyout of Mint.com, a small 2007 start-up, by Intuit, makers of Quicken (and financial bully-boys). It’s [...]

How To Change Your Wordpress Background Image

carolyn — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:32:10 +0000

hi, thanks so much for the tutorial above. I have a further question on the same lines. I figured out how to change the color, but i want to change the background color to an imge that is on my desktop, a jpg file saved on my desktop. I havent been able to figure out [...]

How to get rid of the blog title and description in the Wordpress header

carolyn — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:46:13 +0000

Thanks for you very helpful tips and informative answers to questions. I am in the very early stages of building my WordPress blog and with your help I was successful in replacing the default header with my own. The problem I now face is that my new header contains my blog title, so I want [...]

Wordpress 2.8 upgrade problems reported

carolyn — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:23:10 +0000

I’m in the process of testing some problems with the upgrade to Wordpress 2.8. I’m not the only person reporting them, but I think I’m one of the few who can test on 3 different hosting services with 3 different server configurations. Quick Summary of Wordpress 2.8 Issue It appears that some people are reporting problems with [...]

The No BS Guide to Online Marketing

carolyn — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:10:49 +0000

I’m keeping this short for now. There are some changes coming to the site later this week, however, I promised the wonderful members of the Peninsula College Massage Therapy program that I’d get the edited version of The No BS Guide to Online Marketing up by today. So here it is: No BS Guide to [...]

Review of Dreamhost Hosting for Wordpress Sites

carolyn — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:56:09 +0000

I have a client who has had some amazingly horrible web site hosting experiences. To say these folks are a little gun shy now, is an understatement. They have been through the wars from web “developers” who provided hosting and then held their site for ransom when they tried to move because the site was [...]

OPTC Draft Designs

carolyn — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:03:14 +0000

Peter McKinnon has prepared three variations on a base concept for consideration by the OPTC Web Team. These are subtle changes on a basic theme. I then took the base concept and created a rough draft of what the Home page might look like if some of the features and elements from the RFP were [...]

How Adding Live Plants to Your Environment Can Help You Breathe!

carolyn — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:11:00 +0000

I’m not adding my favorite TED presentations in any order (and I have a lot more to add as I get time. If you’re in a hurry by all means head over to TED and start watching them for yourself). But this simple 4 minute presentation by Kamal Meattle presented at the 2009 conference on [...]

How to Exclude Specific Pages From Your Page Navigation

carolyn — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:06:46 +0000

Your page navigation menu uses the Wordpress wp_list_pages tag to display all of your Pages. There are, however, some Pages that are necessary, but you would prefer not to include in your navigation menu such as “Privacy Policy” or “Thank You for Shopping With Us” or “Legal Disclaimers.” How do you tell Wordpress to exclude [...]