Presentation at WordCamp Detroit 2011

2.  Share tips to help your site on its way
 Share some resources/ tools to help give
your site a leg up
 Inspire you to think outside the box with
WordPress

3. For those not so new to WordPress imagining
what it use to be might be a bit strange to
digest. WordPress USE to be a blog platform,
with no ability to create pages…. Only posts.
You had to make your own static pages and
implement a theme.

4. In May 2004, WordPress 1.5 Strayhorn happened, allowing
users to finally create and manage pages.
Believe me, moving 150 static pages over to WordPress was
tedious at the time, BUT… in the long run, it has been the
best move my own site has made. 
Finally WordPress moved out of the “just a blog platform”
and into the full content management system it is today.

5.  Easy to use
 Updated regularly
 Great community support
 Easy to develop sites with
 Easy to teach clients
 Of course, the SEO aspects are nice
 Build own community and connect with
others
 Make money

11. Use your imagination when creating your site!
WordPress can do it!

12. Being memorable is important. Be active in the
design of your site and make sure that while you
want your site to be accessible, you want to like
your site and be proud to show it off.
 Do research in your niche and
outside to get ideas of what you
want
 Brainstorm how you want to
organize your site, especially for
attracting and converting visitors.

13.  Make it clean and easy to navigate
 Do put in conversion elements (content sliders,
featurette areas, subscribe forms)
 Be aware of web accessibility & validate your
code (validator.w3.org)

14.  Write good content (I keep saying this at
every WordCamp)
 Good clean and organized code code
 WordPress SEO by Joost de Valk
 Webmaster Tools (Google, Bing, etc…)
 Be concise on what you want to optimize

15. Most major search engines are gearing more
toward the social aspects rather than just the
old algorithm rules. (You know, those “so and
so likes” or “so and so recommends” this
feature you see in the search results)
So… guess what, you will need to consider
engaging and encouraging your
visitors/clients/whomever to share your site

16.  Contact form 7 or Gravity Forms (premium)
 Subscribe2, MailChimp, Aweber
 Commentluv (reward your visitors that leave
comments)
 Share tools (Digg Digg, Sociable, or
manually coding in social network and social
bookmarking icons)

18. Stalk me at:
Nile Flores
http://blondish.net
http://twitter.com/blondishnet
http://fb.com/NileFlores