Fort Collins-based Atlas Roofing needed a new website. Owner Rob Godin is a friend of both mine and SEO partner Laurie Macomber of Blue Skies Marketing and we were hired for the project. We designed and developed a new custom WordPress site that will let Rob and his staff control the content as well as…
If your site is built on the WordPress platform, there’s a plugin (of course there is) that can save you some headaches, especially if you already have lots of outgoing links and/or are actively adding new links in blog posts or pages. Broken Link Checker is a plugin I install on all client sites. Install…
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…
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).
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…
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…
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…
Last night WordPress released an update, here’s what WordPress.org had to say: WordPress 3.0.5 is now available and is a security hardening update for all previous WordPress versions. This security release is required if you have any untrusted user accounts, but it also comes with important security enhancements and hardening. WP SecurityLock says: As far…