Bradley

About Bradley Charbonneau

I've done the big corporate thing. I've done the creative writer thing. Now I'm happily in the middle. I like to help small businesses who are interested in "working their website before their website works them." I'm also interested in creating beautiful sites with powerful WordPress themes. Google+

Adding or removing members from Mailman mailing list software

Mailman (usually provided for free with a cPanel backend control panel on Unix hosting) does a good job with mailing lists. This is one-to-all email, not necessarily a newsletter that everyone in the group can use. Pretty simple software, but it works well. Here's a quick video showing how to add a new member to a list or remover an existing member from a list.

Manual WordPress install on cPanel

A how-to screencast on intstalling WordPress onto a UNIX server using cPanel. Set up the database, set up a user, add the user to the database, upload the zip file, unzip, go to the URL, done.

First-time writer leapfrogs to book, press kit, and marketing

Kathryn Abajian (kathrynabajian.com) went from no book and no website to book and website and marketing plan and PR kit and events and postcards and business cards and more. The more she used her website, the more she realized it could do. She used it as an event calendar, as a newsletter, as a press [...]

Julie Gorton

Julie Gorton (juliegortonsart.com) needed a simple site to show a gallery of her work. WordPress + SimpleViewer and done. SimpleViewer creates a beautiful slide show of images that are easy to update. It does a nice job of using a simple backend to still create a Flash slide show.

WordPress Tutorial (2.8.4) Statistics and Keywords

Overview of the dashboard stats and then deeper statistics provided by the wordpress.com stats plugin. Quickly go over the different areas of the stats (Referrers, Top Posts & Pages, Search Engine Terms, Clicks, and Incoming Links) and then a bit of analysis of the keywords. Finally, a very brief example of how to put those keywords to use in a particular post using the All-in-One SEO plugin.

WordPress Tutorial (2.8.4) Lifestyle Theme, Adding Images, Thumbnails, etc.

A quick overview of Brian Gardner's StudioPress Lifestyle theme. I walk through adding/changing the thumbnail images on the home page (resizing), adding text, image, and "featured text" to the Featured Content Gallery on the home page, editing some basic text formatting in a post and finally using the Random Quotes plugin.

Adding Photos to PhotoNexus WordPress Theme

In this WordPress tutorial, I'll show you how to add photos to your galleries for the PhotoNexus theme for WordPress. I'll also show you how to add a new gallery (category) and then sort the categories in the sidebar. Click image to left to view video.

ME’DI.ATE

Mediate needed a site that could let them easily post their video, have a smart design, and have a few content pages as well. They found the "Video" theme by Quommunication and we were on our way.

Thesis WordPress Theme

The Thesis Theme for WordPress is a high-quality template system that you can use to improve your site immediately.

Foster Travel Publishing

Lee Foster was looking to overhaul his travel writing and travel photography site. He had quite a complex set up with CNAME entries leading to custom URLs at PhotoShelter, a custom shopping cart that worked with PayPal, 250+ articles with loads of text, images, slideshows, and a blog at TypePad? Whew. Ready?

TheatreFIRST goes backstage for a makeover

TheatreFIRST (theatrefirst.com) needed a fresh new look. Creative Mint took the design lead and Likoma teamed up with Tim Johnson Design to put all of the design goodness into action.

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