New look – New host and new plans

You might notice (if you visit my blog often enough) that today, we’ve upgraded the theme and look to provide:

• Cleaner look with a more positive image.
  Any site with a dark color scheme and dark graphics is sure to help promote doom and gloom.  I certainly want people who visit my blog feeling warm and cheery and so hopefully it now accomplishes that.




• Whitespace!
  I’ve preached this to many clients over the years and even asked this of the designer who built the first theme we ever used, but he wasn’t the greatest listener and didn’t totally understand what I was asking for. This theme
  Totally accomplishes just that.




• Server Speed – yum!
  I’m addicted to speed, and the host BCWebNet that I was using provided that because they were local to me, but the down time can’t really count as “speed” and that bothered me. So did the unanswered phone calls and support tickets. <argh> so we’re now on a new server and that should help everyone.

On a side note, I realized during the time my site was down just how much I appreciate having the voice to discuss the marketing and web related thoughts that go thru my head during a day and so you may see a burst in new material here. It’s like you don’t know what you have until you no longer have it. Folks, I plan to blog like crazy… Often short snippets but useful content. If your not subscribed to the RSS or newsletter, you may not receive updates and these updates can mean money in your bank account and strategies you can use… So be sure and do that.

Warning!

Based on my enjoyable time with BCWebNet (sarcasm) – I invite and remind all using WordPress to frequently backup their databases, I don’t just mean thru the wordpress program itself, but i mean in PHPMyAdmin or similar. Loosing your site can mean revenue loss and SEO rankings loss and that’s serious stuff!