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A Website Realignment: Day 9: Branding Berchman

August 25, 2009

I’m picking up where I left off on the previous post. So far I’ve gathered adjectives 17 friends, family, and clients perceive as my personal brand. I’ve also identified adjectives I would use for my personal brand. But what else is there that might have an influence on my personal brand? My opinions, likes, and [...]

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A Website Realignment: Day 8: Branding Berchman

August 24, 2009

Since writing the first post in this series I read a great article on A List Apart that spoke volumes to me about the process I am embarking on and documenting here. If you do not read alistapart.com I suggest you check it out. To summarize–I am not so much “redesigning” berchman.com as I am [...]

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WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom Google Search Engine

August 20, 2009

One of the things you always want to provide visitors to your website is a good search tool. The default search tool that comes standard with WordPress is adequate. However, if your website covers a topic, or area of topics, or you have a Google AdSense account, you can take advantage of Google’s Custom Search [...]

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Working on Spec (aka Working for FREE!)

August 13, 2009

I had a client of mine—one of my first when I struck out on my own—email me about a conversation we had a while back. The conversation was about some new ideas regarding a website. It was a great talk and the brainstorming was fun. We left the conversation open-ended and, from my perspective, we [...]

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A Website Realignment: Day 0

August 12, 2009

Here is the beginning of what I hope to be a great series of posts. This series will chronicle—in as much detail as I can provide without driving myself or you crazy—the process of reinventing my brand and transforming this website in form and function.

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Paying the price. One way or another.

July 27, 2009

Today I was reflecting upon a common occurrence among people that I talk to with regard to their website(s). The people I talk to either want a new website or they have one and want to update/add/delete a design or function of the site. These conversations either happen through email or in person and become [...]

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WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

June 30, 2009

One of my frustrations when developing WordPress websites (separate from Thesis) is trying to have a “coming soon/under construction/under development” page so that the public gets the message that things are coming while I and the client can work away in the background. Why would you need this? Well in most cases you have a domain name [...]

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Thesis Tutorial: Sidebars However You Like Them

May 25, 2009

One of the things I learned from creating multiple custom page templates within the Thesis framework was how to create and modify sidebars. WordPress and Thesis provide you with a simple an effective way for implementing sidebars on your website with the use of simple syntax, options, and widgets.

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