Setting up Professional Email Addresses in Gmail

Many of our clients use Gmail for their everyday email system. For small to medium size businesses we believe that Gmail is a better choice than using Microsoft Outlook. In fact, we use Gmail as our corporate email system at SlipFire.
Gmail is Fast, Reliable, Accessible from around the world, and you never have […]

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Using WordPress as a CMS: Example 1

Probably one of the most undervalued features of WordPress are its category structure and commands. The category feature of WordPress can change a blog into a powerful CMS (Content Management System) tool.

One of our clients, Gotta Knit, didn’t want to use a real calendar for events since many of them are general, like “Fall 2008″, […]

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A Quick Lesson on SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

If you have a website or are thinking of getting one, than you need to know about SEO, or Search Engine Optimization.
Wikipedia defines SEO as: “Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results”.
Essentially this […]

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Creating a Lightbox Subscription Form in Wordpress

We received a lot of emails on how to create our Lightbox subscription form, so we decided to post step-by-step instructions.
Our Lightbox form will do the following:

Automatically load a subscription form in a lightbox when a specified webpage is called.
Give the user the choice of signing up for our newsletter, or opting out.
If the user […]

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