Nikole Gipps is the face behind the superhero character at That PHP Girl, a web development company that specializes in Wordpress, Premium Wordpress Themes, and PHP Programming. She posts non-tech small business tips over at her blog, Small Business Essentials. A California native with a degree from the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Ithaca, NY), she now lives in Oregon with her husband, 2 children, dog, cat, and the garden that she loves.
In case you have never heard of Wordpress, it is the backend content management system (CMS) that runs sites such as CNN, the WSJ Magazine, and even these StartupNation Business Blogs. With the release of...
Today, Yahoo! sent announcements to all of its MyBlogLog account holders to announce the shutdown of MyBlog on May 24, 2011. This is not a surprise to anyone who caught Yahoo's announced plans to "sunset"...
If you are a business with a Facebook Page for your business, Facebook's news of changes to Facebook Pages might sound important to you, whether or not you know what it all means. I have...
In today's climate of social media marketing, business owners are encouraged to get word out about their company in as many formats as possible. According to Michelle Carroll of 1stop Marketing Solutions: "Companies are looking...
I recently received an email from Guy Kawasaki about Nononina's new venture, Alltop, and specifically the Alltop Business Section. Alltop is a collection of stories from all the top sites on the web in a...
Your personal productivity can have a huge impact on the success of your business. If you are an entrepreneur, your personal life and professional life probably jumble up into one big pile for you to...
Sometimes an idea comes along that is so simple yet so brilliant, I can't help but talking about it. Today, that idea is sketchcasting.What is sketchcasting?Sketchcasting takes the concept of giving a presentation at the...
This is a quick gem for today: I don't have a landline. (Yes, in our house, we have 3 Nextel cell phones, in 3 area codes, but not a single landline.) So when a client...
With all the advice I could possibly give you about your website, the one thing that is most overlooked is QUALITY CONTENT. If you make a bad product, you can't expect anyone to buy it....
I had always thought CEOs were really busy people—at least too busy to be wasting their time on internet chat board. But apparently I was wrong! John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, proved himself to...
It seems like everyone is an expert now. So how do you stand out from the crowd? By proving your knowledge in key places on the web so that you can be seen by potential...
A common problem we see here on StartupNation is bootstrapping entrepreneurs without the working capital to get their company website set up properly. Having a web presence is crucial for today's start-ups, but what do...
Welcome to Web Technology for Entrepreneurs! The goal of this category is to bring entrepreneurs news of web applications and technology that they can start using today to help their businesses. I'll bring you the...