Here is the second one in the series of projects I’ve had on the backburner. If you’re looking for a Halloween costume, go check it out!

Work Completed: Wordpress Website

Description: Best Star Trek Costumes is an affiliate website setup to market Star Trek costumes. In order to facilitate ease of updating, this website was created using Wordpress as a content management system.

I don’t get very many opportunities to play around with personal projects, so I’m very glad to announce the completion of this website. If you’re looking for a Halloween costume, go check it out!

Work Completed: Wordpress Website

Description: Best G.I. Joe Costumes is an affiliate website setup to market G.I Joe costumes. In order to facilitate ease of updating, this website was created using Wordpress as a content management system.

Just finished a website for my church, Family By Faith Worship Center. It’s a Flash movie that defines what adoption means to them. Go check it out!

Work Completed: Flash Website

Description: Wanna Be Adopted is an additional website to announce the mission and vision of Family By Faith Worship Center. It is meant to catch the attention of visitors who will stay and watch the Flash message before moving on to the church’s main website. To keep visitors entertained while reading the message on adoption, a song from the music ministry leader, David Glenn, is incorporated into the Flash movie.

reCAPTCHA is a free service that takes CAPTCHA one step further. If you’re not familiar with a CAPTCHA, it’s a program that helps control the amount of spam received through web forms by generating tests that humans, but not computers, can pass. For example, when you visit a blog to comment and you are asked to type out a set of words, numbers, or phrase in order to submit your comment, that is a CAPTCHA.

What makes reCAPTCHA different is that they are using these web forms to help digitize material like books, newspapers and radio shows. By having humans process words that current computers find difficult reading, they are processing internet archives and old editions of the New York Times, for starters. I think this is one of the neatest ideas I’ve heard all week.

Check out this ScienCentral video explaining reCAPTCHA:

They have application plugins for WordPress, Movable Type, and Joomla among several others. Go check them out!

Have any other spam control plug-ins or addons I should consider? Let me know below!

One of the services I’ve recently started providing is what I like to call “Blog Management“. Basically, you send me your original content in whatever format you have it saved – be that a Word document, a PDF file, an Excel spreadsheet, the restaurant napkin, whatever. I then scour through it for editing and split it up into blog posts that I leave scheduled on your blog according to your posting schedule.

With that service, I also keep an eye out on what is going on with your company on the Internet to supplement your content with other information related to you or your business. This works well for many companies, especially small business owners who are wearing more than one hat, if you know what I mean.

Since I provide this service of reading through documents and creating blog posts from my client’s content, you would think that when it comes time to blog on my own web sites, it would be a piece of cake. Let me tell you…that is far from the case.

After hemming and hawing regarding content, I usually end up not writing a thing. (Hence my lack of blog posts, but that’s neither here nor there.)

But have no fear! I ran across this excellent blog post for those of us having trouble coming up with new content. You can check it out here: Creating New Blog Content – A Simple Guide. An excellent way to approach content for your blog or web site for those times you are just stuck on writing your next words.

Or do you have other ways you break your blogging stop log? Share them with me in the comments…I need all the help I can get!

Thank you to our troops who serve for our freedom!
May yours be safe and happy!