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+

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Great tool for making fav icons here. Here's the code you need for the header.php file: [code] [/code]

Domain Name Registration: My Real Address?

The governing body of domain names, ICANN, says you should have "not false" information about yourself as the domain name owner (see article on GoDaddy website here). My guess is that it's so when they're tracking down spammers they can find the information about the guilty party and go after them. It basically says this: [...]

Why to Not Have Your Email on a Website

I reluctantly have my email listed (plain text [email protected]) on a business networking site I'm a member of. Here's what happened. My email is listed on the site in regular text, so it's easy for the spammers to collect and add to their databases. Now spam is no fun, but "phishing" is potentially dangerous. See [...]

Drupal :: Photos, Galleries, and Modules

Here's an update on photos, photo galleries/albums, easy uploading, photo resizing, etc. in Drupal. 1.) Image Module The basic Drupal module, together with Image Assist. :|: Pros Very integrated with Drupal; so easy to insert images into regular entries Easy to upload (one at a time) Sidebar integration ("Random Photo") :|: Cons No multiple upload [...]

Blacklist or Whitelist?

There are probably as many strategies to stop spam as there are to send it. For the article below, I'm only talking about working with YOUR email address ([email protected]), not blacklisting or whitelisting THEIR email addresses ([email protected]). Here are two main strategies. Blacklist Allow all mail to come in to any email address with your [...]

Melanie Lacki

WordPress and Gallery2 to show off Melanie's beautiful watercolor paintings.

Website Slant: Professional or Personal?

Summary: It's your website, make it what you want to be. Robin Sparks (www.robinsparks.com) couldn't decide whether to have a professional site for her published writing and a separate personal site for her not-yet published writing or to merge the two. Unless you wouldn't want an editor to see your non-published/journal/blog writing because it was [...]

Website as Central Command

Summary: Established writer creates a media centerAsma Hasan's site (www.asmahasan.com) is a working warehouse of everything she's done, is doing, and is going to do. She's a hot topic on the news shows and reporters can get the information they need quickly and easily from her site. A few extra bells and whistles give her [...]

Website as Press Kit

Summary: First-time writer leapfrogs to book, press kit, and marketingKathryn Abajian (www.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 [...]

” … many solutions up his electronic sleeve … “

Bradley is a dream come true. A Web designer with excellent taste and a strong design sense. He’s willing to work collaboratively and has many solutions up his electronic sleeve that make Web marketing easy and seamless. He’s really good and gets the work done with lightening speed. I can’t say enough good things about [...]

” … as a promotional tool for my book … “

I’ve recently moved into a new home for my writing -- my website! It’s a place I can furnish, decorate, and reorganize whenever I want. Every day I see more potential for the site as a promotional tool for my book, First Sight of the Desert. The more I learn about marketing my book, the [...]

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