Well, I’ve been dabbling with WordPress and editing Themes. The new version (2.0) seems pretty cool and the theme or “Presentation” manager is much easier for selecting your theme. I also found the theme editor much easier than the original version.

Reading:
I’ve just finished reading and highlighting practically every page of Tom Antions book, “The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business”. I read a review a friend posted and was intrigued. I have to say, even knowing he’s a motivational speaker and that some of his web sites have the “One Single Long Page” Pitch-y, Sales-y look/feel, the practical information seemed pretty straight forward. Obviously, he’s not a technical person and I cringed every time he mentioned doing this or doing that with Front-Page, amateur hour. Many of the techniques and marketing ideas were very informative for a techie like me. Keyword management and understanding page ranking and how to monitor keyword trends could very well pay for the book.

Software:
I’ve been playing with WebCEO and WebPosition and man, what information at your finger tips. I’m dabbling with a site I setup for our ski team that could potentially be a money making fund-raiser. The keywords I’d used in the pages were way to basic. They’re now changed and I’m going to see if the page ranking gets better.

More reading… I’m now working on “The e-Code” by Joe Vitale and Jo Han Mok. Two writers I’d never heard about. When ordering Tom Antions book, it was recommended at a discount and so I gave it a shot. So far, it’s been refreshingly honest and some interesting ideas. Where Toms book was more, do this and do that and here’s a ton of links to go check out, this one is a little more phylisophical and thought provoking. Also, it was written by a bunch of other sub-authors and they state it up front on how they published the book and are now making money on it. Pretty honest.

Posted: January 14th, 2006 under Personal.
Comments: none