Systems Cowboy

I love WordPress.  I don’t bother “designing” or “programming” sites anymore.  There are too many great templates for WordPress, it’s too easy to use, and there is a plug-in for most anything I need to do.  A WordPress site doesn’t have to look like a blog, and it’s perfect for creating “mini-sites”.

Now, this subject has been covered alot online, but I’m going to talk about what I do when I set up a WordPress blog since it’s on my mind as I set up this blog today.

The first thing I do is set up Permalinks.  Under settings > Permalinks > Custom Structure, I pretty much always put /%postname%.html

That makes the URL of all your posts look like www.myurl.com/my-subject-matter.html instead of www.myurl.com/?p=123.

Next, I take a couple of minutes and install several key plugins…

For a while, I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to do with this site.  For many years, it’s been dedicated to my business creating & programming websites, but since I dismantled that business a few years ago, it’s been languishing.

What I’ve decided to do is to do some talking about matters related to the business of internet marketing, since that is where I’ve been making my living for the past several years.  I get so many questions about it all the time, and it’s a deep and endless subject.  In the past, I’ve found it difficult to keep blogging on a regular basis, but we’ll see how it goes.