Every now and again, I’ll get a note from someone from the island of Likoma (from which the name of my company is derived). I’ll post their notes from so very far away below. Every note brings me back to the island I love.
The Itinerants Unplugged
The Itinerants grouse and gossip about making it in the cold (or sometimes steamy) world of travel writing, at the monthly meeting of Bay Area Travel Writers. Among the unvarnished truths they promise to tell: how to critique each others’ work without breaking into catfights where to find inspiration how to think about marketing without [...]
The 50 Most Important People on the Web
From LAist: Last week PC World named Matt Mullenweg the 16th most-important person on the web (two slots above the of the founders of Yahoo!), which isn’t bad for a 23-year-old who gives it away for free. He’s the co-founder of WordPress.
WordPress in the News
Here are a few articles about WordPress that I found interesting. 10 SEO tips for WordPress Create a small business website on a small budget
Likoma Interviewed for Writer’s Digest Article
Barbara DeMarco-Barrett of Writer’s Digest says, The time is nigh: If you don’t have a presence on the Web, you’re going to get left behind. Here’s why your website can be the key to your writing career, and how to do a site right. She quotes Bradley Charbonneau, If you hire someone to do your [...]
No more forwarding to Hotmail / MSN accounts
Due to the increase in complaints, effective February 10, 2007, we will no longer allow forwards from our accounts to Hotmail / MSN accounts. Update: Yahoo too.
WordPress And CMS: How To Make It Work
Fantastic article singing the praises of WordPress (WordPress And CMS: How To Make It Work). Simply put, WordPress has sophisticated features that make it a powerful content management system. The article goes into why a CMS is a better idea (if you ever want to update your site) over the more traditional Dreamweaver sites (not [...]
WordPress Overview
I created a WordPress Overview video that walks through some of the features of WordPress (version 2.0.4). WordPress Overview Help Video The video covers: adding a category, adding a post, pasting content (as Plain Text and from Word using (modified) Advanced WYSIWYG Editor plugin), inserting (and editing) an image (using Image Manager plugin), adding (and [...]
Client Access
Now that I’m switched back to WordPress, I’m going to take advantage some new features–and let you in on some, too. If your site isn’t in WordPress, we probably haven’t talked in a while. There are some great new capabilities and they just keep on coming. Keep an eye on this News section for more.First [...]
Likoma Finally Switches (back!) to WordPress
After a long struggle with Drupal, I’m back to WordPress.
Server Down, PayPal Phishing, and WP 2.O
Happy New Year! I’m using a new newsletter feature from my new website (www.likoma.com), so could you let me know you got this email? Just a blank reply is fine, thanks. I won’t be using this newsletter to bombard you with junk mail, so please don’t unsubscribe. I’ll try to keep it relevant to you [...]