PDQ Digital Media http://pdqdigitalmedia.com Our Name Says It All Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:10:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Top 7 Reasons Why You Need a Personal Website http://pdqdigitalmedia.com/top-7-reasons-why-you-need-a-personal-website/ http://pdqdigitalmedia.com/top-7-reasons-why-you-need-a-personal-website/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:46:11 +0000 PDQ Digital Media Marketing Team http://pdqdigitalmedia.com/?p=605

Having a website of your own equals entering into an invaluable communication environment. There are at least 7 reasons why it is highly advisable for you to be present online:

1. Represents your personal profile

A website can be your virtual portrait, showing off your personal self to the world on a 24/7 basis.  Among the most popular ways of presenting your personality online is keeping a webblog (otherwise known as online diary) or a photo gallery, where your friends can stay up-to-date with your daily living.

2. Spreads your voice across the world

A website can be your global “tribune” where you are able to share your knowledge, experience and enthusiasm with people who have common interests, but with whom you might not otherwise have crossed paths. A very popular idea-voicing tool is the discussion board, better known as “forum”. You can also have a guestbook on your site, where people can discuss your postings.

3. Lets you be in touch with people at a distance

A website can be a meeting place for making new acquaintances with people of different religion, nationality and age, as well as for keeping in touch with friends who may be on the other side of the world. Thanks to the almost unlimited online communication possibilities you can conduct one-to-one conversations with many different people directly from your website.

4. Broadens disabled people’s interaction with the world

A website empowers people with limited access, due to handicap or illness, to broaden their communication with others. A website can be a physically disabled person’s door to the dynamic world, allowing him/her to bridge over the difficulties of having a “different” everyday life. It can even be their office, where they can present and deliver certain home-made products/services directly from their living room.

 

5. Creates a web skill development environment

A website can introduce you to the secrets of www. The contemporary web design technologies have brought the art of creating a website just a few clicks away from the inexperienced user. Thanks to the popular WYSWYG (what you see is what you get) web design tools, absolutely everyone (irrespective of age or education degree) can build their own web page without any previous experience.

6. Makes extra profit for you with minimum investment on your part

A website can make residual profit for you, while you are sleeping or enjoying your free time. Thanks to the up-to-date techniques for bringing traffic to your website, you can earn easy money by simply having visitors click on certain product/service promos or links that are relevant to your site content pages (e.g. Google Adsense/Adwords ad solutions) without any initial investment.

7. Makes you a member of the biggest community of the world

A website is a must-have personal attribute nowadays, just like mobile phones and computers are. The fast developing technologies have converted having a website from a whim into a modern necessity. As of today, almost everyone has a web site, whereas twice as many people are expected to be having their own personal space in the global World Wide Web cosmos in the near future. Be forward-thinking, join this trend now.

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As is also true of other Packt publications in its “WordPress” series, notably Heather R. Wallace’s WordPress 3 Site Blueprints, Tessa Blakeley Silver`s WordPress 3.0 jQuery, and Brandon Corbin’s WordPress Top Plug Ins, Silver again provides about as much information, insights, and advice that I need to in order to work effectively with my website team. Our shared objective: To co-create professional (i.e. “commercial strength”) themes.

  • WordPress plugin basics for both Macs and PCs
  • About those that focus exclusively on 100% free and open plugins
  • Screenshots for each plugin that are organized by complexity to install and manage
  • Search Terms for automatic installation of plugins
  • Instructions on configuring and setting up the more complex plugins
  • The eBook available as PDF and ePub downloads and also on PacktLib

You can obtain even more information about this book by visiting
https://www.packtpub.com/wordpress-top-plugins/book.

In another review, I will share what I learned from Tessa Baker Silver’s Word Press Theme Design, a volume that provides a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes.

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As is also true of other Packt publications in its “WordPress” series, notably Heather R. Wallace’s WordPress 3 Site Blueprints, Tessa Blakeley Silver`s WordPress 3.0 jQuery, and Brandon Corbin’s WordPress Top Plug Ins, Silver again provides about as much information, insights, and advice that I need to in order to work effectively with my website team. Our shared objective: To co-create professional (i.e. “commercial strength”) themes.

  • WordPress plugin basics for both Macs and PCs
  • About those that focus exclusively on 100% free and open plugins
  • Screenshots for each plugin that are organized by complexity to install and manage
  • Search Terms for automatic installation of plugins
  • Instructions on configuring and setting up the more complex plugins
  • The eBook available as PDF and ePub downloads and also on PacktLib

You can obtain even more information about this book by visiting
https://www.packtpub.com/wordpress-top-plugins/book.

In another review, I will share what I learned from Tessa Baker Silver’s Word Press Theme Design, a volume that provides a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes.

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As is also true of other Packt publications in its “WordPress” series, notably Heather R. Wallace’s WordPress 3 Site Blueprints, Tessa Blakeley Silver`s WordPress 3.0 jQuery, and Brandon Corbin’s WordPress Top Plug Ins, Silver again provides about as much information, insights, and advice that I need to in order to work effectively with my website team. Our shared objective: To co-create professional (i.e. “commercial strength”) themes.

  • WordPress plugin basics for both Macs and PCs
  • About those that focus exclusively on 100% free and open plugins
  • Screenshots for each plugin that are organized by complexity to install and manage
  • Search Terms for automatic installation of plugins
  • Instructions on configuring and setting up the more complex plugins
  • The eBook available as PDF and ePub downloads and also on PacktLib

You can obtain even more information about this book by visiting
https://www.packtpub.com/wordpress-top-plugins/book.

In another review, I will share what I learned from Tessa Baker Silver’s Word Press Theme Design, a volume that provides a complete guide to creating professional WordPress themes.

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