William Bay Photographic Arts » Blogging http://williambayphotography.com San Diego Wedding Photography, Family Photojournalism and Fine Art Portraiture. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:32:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Come See Me Talk About WordPresshttp://williambayphotography.com/wordpress-talk/ http://williambayphotography.com/wordpress-talk/#comments Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:41:23 +0000 William http://williambayphotography.com/?p=1339 I’m very excited to be putting together my very first speaking gig. I will be speaking to the Professional Photographers of San Diego County on December 7th from 9am-5pm. I’ll be covering a lot of information about blogging in general, … Continue reading →

William Bay is a Come See Me Talk About WordPress.

]]> william bay wordpress professional photographers of san diego countyI’m very excited to be putting together my very first speaking gig. I will be speaking to the Professional Photographers of San Diego County on December 7th from 9am-5pm.

I’ll be covering a lot of information about blogging in general, how to get started, the benefits to WordPress as your blogging and website engine, search engine optimization, and quite a bit more.

I will also provide a critique and comment period on the attendees websites and how they can improve their site, blog and search engine rankings with easy tweaks.

Whether you are a wedding photographer, portrait photographer or anything else, you won’t want to miss out on this event.

To register, go over to the PPSDC website and pay online. Space is limited and we expect to have a full house. So sign up early.

The cost is $25 for PPSDC members.
And $35 for Non-members

William Bay is a Come See Me Talk About WordPress.

]]> http://williambayphotography.com/wordpress-talk/feed/ 0 Ahh… A breathe of fresh airhttp://williambayphotography.com/ahh-a-breathe-of-fresh-air/ http://williambayphotography.com/ahh-a-breathe-of-fresh-air/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:07:43 +0000 William http://williambayphotography.com/?p=31 Quite some time ago I used WordPress for my Rebuilding Thailand blog. It was strictly a blog site that chronicled my year as a volunteer after the 2004 tsunami, and the adventures that went along with it. When it came … Continue reading →

William Bay is a Ahh… A breathe of fresh air.

]]> Wordpress logoQuite some time ago I used WordPress for my Rebuilding Thailand blog. It was strictly a blog site that chronicled my year as a volunteer after the 2004 tsunami, and the adventures that went along with it.

When it came time to building a professional level site (this one) I ended up looking at ModX. For what it was worth it was a very rich content management system, but I found that it took a lot of time to learn the system, and in some circumstances even learning a new code structure. And the blogging software was rather clunky.

And now I find myself jumping ship back to the familiar platform of WordPress. But this time in a much more robust application than before, and I couldn’t be more happy. Along with the thousands of available plugins to make it super powerful, the interface is just simple enough to do no more than what you really need to do.

For other WordPress users here is a short list of some of the useful plugins I am currently using:

  • Skype Online Status: Display’s when I am online on Skype and allows Skype users to directly start chatting with me.
  • Google XML Sitemaps: Essential tool for SEO geeks like me. Automatically rebuilds your Google Sitemap with every new blog post.
  • Clean Notifications: By Mike Davidson who’s blog I read. Makes the email notifications very pretty.

These are just a few, but they make the experience of blogging and adding new pages so nice.
I hope that you enjoy navigating and viewing the site as much as I enjoy writing and updating in it.

William Bay is a Ahh… A breathe of fresh air.

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