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I've been using Overnight Prints for years because of their thick business cards and high quality printing. Graphic designers I work with use Overnight Prints for business cards, clients have ordered business cards as well as postcards.
Check out this preview video (suitable for all audiences) showing off some of the hot new features of WordPress 2.7.
You'd think, "Hey, Likoma, you're a WordPress developer, why are you promoting other themes on your site?" Well, in a word: WOW.
Like WordPress 2.5, the bulk of the changes affect the WordPress admin. Unlike WordPress 2.5, however, this is not merely an update of the backend but a complete rebuilding.
Thord Daniel Hedengren says that people say he's crazy to use WordPress when there are obviously some more "powerful" applications out there. His response, "I know WordPress." I have to agree. I'd also add, "I know and LOVE WordPress." Also, I want to do one thing and do it well. I don't want to learn [...]
WordPress 2.6 brings some speedy features as well as some I've been waiting for e.g. image captions!
Randfish over on SEOmoz.org says that if you don't have the cash to hire an SEO company on a regular basis, go with WordPress (or Drupal). Here's a snippet. Let's say I have $5,000.00 available to spend on SEO. It's not enough to hire you guys, but what or whom would you recommend to spend [...]
Holiday shopping anyone? ;-)
Litquake, San Francisco's Literary Festival, is headed into its 8th year this fall. As always, there will be many once-in-a-lifetime moments as we continue to showcase hundreds of authors, most from here in the Bay Area including a glittering 2007 opening night on October 6 at the Herbst.
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Kevin Smokler's start up BookTour.com got a write-up in the New York Times. Here's an excerpt: "When you're not in the book business you think, of course they're going to send you around," she said. Chances are, unless an author is especially high-profile or promising or willing to pony up for expenses, they're not. Fortunately [...]
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 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 [...]
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.
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
