Introduction

• Do you need to take the Websitetology seminar?
• The Websitetology seminars
• Why your site should be a community- not a brochure.
• Your website won’t do this- your blog will.
• Smart Website Secrets
• Why you want a blind friendly site
• Web 2.0 explained in video
• Businesses using social media and blogs- to, gasp, sell!
• If your web developer insists on using Flash- have them read this…
• Keys to “Social Media”- the ground floor of WordPress
• Ten days to a great website.
• Proof that this works.

Content Management Systems

• What’s a Blog?
• Why a blog equals a website
• Distinction between forums and blogs?
• WordPress Makes Sense For Many Non-Blog Websites
• Want to look at the blogging landscape?
• Lifehacker Poll says WordPress is the best
• WordPress isn’t the only option
• How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog)
• Learning HTML and XHTML for Beginners

WordPress Tips and Tricks

• Where to begin with WordPress
• Press It, the semi-secret WordPress content generating tool
• WordPress 2.1 – extra tools for your editor
• Using Image and File Attachments
• WordPress 2.0 Image management
• Trackback, Permalinks, Pinging or how to make your post connect to other blogs
• What keywords should you include? Keyword Selector Tool
• The new improved link tool in WordPress 2.0
• How to: Upload themes and plugins for WordPress using FireFTP and our server
• Making WordPress even easier
• Shopping carts for WordPress
• Best WordPress plug-in ever? The Subscribe to Comments Plugin
• WordPress Plugins for Images, Photographs, and Graphics « Lorelle on WordPress
• WordPress Plugin Database
• Write better posts!
• When to use a Post or use a Page
• Using WordPress collectively
• Everything you want to know about tags- and then some
• Bad WordPress themes aren’t always obvious

Troubleshooting

• Breaking your WordPress theme- sidebar moves down?
• WordPress displaying odd characters?
• WordPress Visual Rich Editor (WYSIWG) stops working?

Site Design

• WordPress sites that don’t look like WordPress

Stuff that should interest you

• How high does your site rank on a subject?
• The bigger they are- the harder they fall.
• Tools for searching blogs
• How blogs and e-mail are changing news
• Want to learn about Google and SEO?
• Interesting article on blog content structure and RSS
• GeoCoding and blogs- the future that will replace phone books
• The 12 reasons why not to blog
• How to use blogs to launch a new product
• How to get traffic- well, sort of…
• Blogosopher featured in Dayton Daily News
• Why your website may soon be viewed on a phone
• The “most important inventions” of the last 50 years?
• Company e-mail- are you proactive?
• Confusing technology with content
• The answers are all in Google.

E-mail

• The Effective Emailer
• Paying to send e-mail?

RSS

• A website without RSS is like a phone without a ringer