I’ve been using Akismet for quite a long time now. Akismet is the spam control plugin that comes installed by default in WordPress – but it’s not free. Well – let me clarify. It is free for personal or hobby sites, but that’s probably not what you’re doing if you’re reading this, is it? Akismet…
Need a bit of a refresher course on how to use your WordPress site? Or perhaps you’re adding staff and need to have a training session to get new editors up to speed? We can help! Red Kite provides a thorough WordPress training experience for all our project clients. Typically what we’ll do is schedule…
Red Kite’s hosting company, NOCO Hosting, is making some big changes this week. We’ve just increased the monthly bandwidth allotments to 4x the previous limit – good news for our photography and video clients. The new account sizes are: Micro: 250MB disk space and 10GB bandwidth Basic: 1GB disk space and 40GB bandwidth Standard: 3GB…
Fort Collins-based Farm Bureau insurance team Rich and Deb Davis were working with our recommended SEO pro, Laurie Macomber of Blue Skies Marketing, on content for a new standalone website for his agency. We worked with Rich, Deb and Laurie to design and develop a new WordPress site that really puts the focus on them,…
WordPress released a critical update (3.1.1) today that fixes approximately 30 issues, including some security and performance issues. If you’re a WordPress user, take a moment and upgrade the next time you log in (don’t forget to backup your database first).
Do you request testimonials from your clients? If you don’t, you probably should. Recommendations from satisfied customers are a very compelling way to demonstrate the good qualities of your services or products. Asking for them may be awkward at first, but believe me, it’s worth the effort and it gets easier. Promise them something in…
Fort Collins-based consulting engineer Mike McRoberts came to Red Kite earlier this year looking for a new site to promote his new consulting company. After meeting with Mike and discussing his project, he hired both Red Kite (for web design and development) and our recommended SEO expert, Laurie Macomber of Blue Skies Marketing, with whom…
Custom email templates are nice – they can be designed to match your website (and other marketing tools) and most all the major email newsletter sites allow you to use your own, rather than choosing one of their pre-designed templates. It looks much more professional than using a generic template that doesn’t quite match your…
You’ve made the effort to get a free Google Analytics account and added the tracking code to your website or blog. You’re collecting data about every visitor and visit to your site. Now what? A client asked me this morning how to best use Analytics to figure out what was happening on her website. Here…
BAT owner Eric Carlson came to us about 3 weeks ago looking for a website redesign for the Breckenridge, CO outfitter company he bought in December. We made it happen. BAT’s new WordPress site has a custom design, photo gallery, and a slideshow he can manage simply by adding photos to the gallery (and removing…
Animal Medical Center of Brooksville, FL approached Red Kite about replacing their older website. I met with practice manager Charles Sorensen and together we determined that WordPress would work nicely for them, since they were looking for a small site that would be easy for them to maintain on their own. They also liked the…
Need a grammar/spelling/style reviewer for your blog posts? There’s a plugin for that. Actually there are a few. One of the more popular is After The Deadline; it’s a comprehensive tool that does all the above. Besides the plugin for WordPress.org sites, it’s also available as a Firefox addon or Chrome browser extension. Give it…