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Theme Framework & Child Themes 101

We are designing almost exclusively on Genesis theme Framework with custom Child Themes these days. Genesis is similar to other theme frameworks out there for WordPress. The reason we use a framework and a child theme is that you can upgrade your code (the framework) without loosing your custom … [Read more...]

10 Proven Strategies to Increase Traffic

For the business person, we put content online to lure you into our web of products and information. For the mom blogger, we put a lot of love and sweat into our writing. And we love, love, love it when people read and comment! But for every popular blog on the web, hundreds more are read by … [Read more...]

One of my blogging heroes: the Big Mama

Melanie is one of those bloggers that I'll never be - consistent! She blogs every single day and she has the following to prove it. If you want to see an active following and what its like to actually get comments on your blog posts - you need to see Melanie's blog. Read one post and you'll … [Read more...]

The Argument between WordPress and Thesis for the Lay Person

There's a big kafuffle going on right now in the tweet/ wordpress/ social world. Have you heard? Dave of ThinkDave.com summed it up the best:Bill Erikson sent out a Tweet explaining that WordPress had dropped him as a developer because he suppports Thesis (they feel Thesis violates the … [Read more...]

Sunday Section ~July 4th~

Finally a pretty to-do list & project manager in oneI'm happy to report that Desperately Seeking WordPress has been growing this year again thanks to wonderful hard-working clients like yourselves. Along the way, we've experienced the usual growing pains and some mountains (at least they … [Read more...]

Kelly shares how she organizes her life to work at home full-time

During the course of my day, I meet some pretty amazing people. And this week, I was in need of some organizing advice. I asked Kelly of Faithful Provisions for a few minutes to run some questions by her.This is longer than I usually post, but I know a lot of us are currently trying to … [Read more...]