Comments on: [TPIAP] Show #14 – How To Start A Faux Painting Website – Step 1

By: Marc from MyCraftBiz.com

Marc from MyCraftBiz.com — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:53:15 +0000

Wordpress on your own site is great because if you use good keyword titles the seo benefits are good. This combined with the blog pinging system all helps greatly in getting your content found. We use a wordpress blog in a subdirectory of our main site at MyCraftBiz.com and it not only provides a lot of free craft planning info for people, it then allows people to click through to our regular website with all the benefits that a normal website has re layouts etc that a blog does not have.

Wordpress on your own paid hosting can work well and as mentioned above godaddy has worked for us for years now.

By: niki

niki — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:43:52 +0000

I agree with the general consensus here about Wordpress.it a real platform for all of us ….guys! check

By: Dan The Marketing Man

Dan The Marketing Man — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:37:49 +0000

I totally agree with Baby Sam. I started out with Blogger but then moved over to wordpress because it was a lot more customizable.

By: Social Bookmark Service

Social Bookmark Service — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:35:02 +0000

The website is absorbing! And the wordpress suits like nothing else!
Great job

By: Baby Sam

Baby Sam — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:47:27 +0000

Wordpress is my choise and I can recommend hostgator with a wordpress blog hosting. Use GoDaddy for a domain registration and you never have to worry a thing. You should try blogger or wordpress before you make a purchase because then you what you can and can’t do with free blogs. That is the way I have used them.

By: Joan - Cheap Stretched Canvas

Joan - Cheap Stretched Canvas — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:01:35 +0000

I agree with the general consensus here about Wordpress. It’s a great platform to build a site on for someone who is just starting out. Both simple enough to quickly get the hang of using and robust enough to give you the ability to transform your site into just about anything that you want later on.

By: Marketing Ideas

Marketing Ideas — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:31:46 +0000

I agree with Artist Easel, Wordpress is def. the way to go for a site like that. Wordpress is such a versital tool and is always being updated. I have seen awesome business website setup on WP and nobody is the wiser.

By: Internet Marketing Blog

Internet Marketing Blog — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:32:07 +0000

Wordpress hosted by wordpress is very unprofessional, although hosting wordpress yourself on your own host is great. From the custom themes, plugins, and everything else! It’s a fantastic CMS system….

By: Web Design

Web Design — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:22:43 +0000

Patricia,

Would you mind telling us if you have used any 3rd party plugins for WP and your experinces with them ? Good, bad the ugly ?

By: Artist Easel

Artist Easel — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:03:28 +0000

Wordpress is definitely the right choice for a site like this

By: Make your own Website

Make your own Website — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:40:54 +0000

Well done for helping a new startup with inexpensive solutions like Lunar and WP… so many web designers charge an arm and a leg and suggest things that are just right out of the ballpark for a new business person.

By: craft

craft — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:37:55 +0000

Yeah, I think using free hosting like wordpress or blogspot only good for beginner or learning. If someone want to be serious in blogging, they must use paid hosting. Besides, there are so many host offering cheap price.

By: Learn to Draw

Learn to Draw — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:16:28 +0000

The website looks great. We have an art related website too. In regards to getting traffic I would suggest taking lots of video and pictures of your work and submitting them to youtube, digg, stumbleupon, and all the other social media networks out there. Currently that is where 50% of 20,000 visitors a week come from!

Good luck!

By: eric ember

eric ember — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:52:46 +0000

looks like the site is going to be commercial and product driven for that I suggest using typepad, you have to pay for it, but it gives you way more control over your blog.

Mission Renaissance

By: Amy - just another web designer

Amy - just another web designer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:18:21 +0000

The next best thing you can do is to check out all the handy plugins for WordPress like Akistmet which automatically filters spam comments for you. Just Google: wordpress plugins, or best wordpress plugins to get started. I use about 20.

By: Craftzine Interview With Made by Tess About Starting Her Own Craft Business - Home Based Craft Business.com

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:30:15 +0000

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By: Patricia

Patricia — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:47:35 +0000

I checked out her new website and it looks great! I know from experience how hard it is to come up with a good looking website, and all the work that goes into it. So I just wanted to say it looks great!!