7 Reasons to Build your Contractor or Small Business Website in WordPress

7 Reasons to Build your Contractor or Small Business Website in WordPress

By on October 6, 2010 in SEO, WordPress

If you’re an independent contractor or run a small business, but you don’t have a website, why not?

Let me guess. To you it doesn’t sound like it’s worth the money, effort or time to create one. For many of you, this might’ve been true in the past. But not now.

It’s 2010. More people search online for what you do than you think. Websites are much easier, cheaper and quicker to create than even just a few years ago. It very likely may take only one or two people to find you online and become your customer to make this effort worthwhile.

What you need to use is WordPress. There are hundreds of frameworks out there to build websites, but in the 15 years I’ve been developing for the web, I believe WordPress is by far the best platform for independent contractors and small businesses.

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April 2010 Fresno-area .NET user group wrap up

By on April 16, 2010 in ASP.NET MVC, Tech in Fresno

I haven’t been able to make it out to the Fresno-area .NET user group in a while, but I’m glad I did for the one this last Wednesday (held at Fresno State).

The topic of the night was NHibernate (and several related technologies) given by Jeff Doolittle. Jeff’s the CTO of Lotpath (built on ASP.NET MVC), so he and his company are definitely eating their own dogfood with what he presented. The slides and code are available which will be great for review for anyone diving into it.

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Agile Zen, a web app built with ASP.NET MVC 2 and jQuery

By on March 19, 2010 in ASP.NET MVC, jQuery

I was fortunate enough to attend Microsoft’s MIX conference for the first time this year. I learned a ton, jotted down hundreds of ideas for my projects, and had some valuable discussions with a lot of smart people.

Obviously you have to attend in person to network, but fortunately all the videos and slides are being made available online. Even for attendees this is great for review, but also because you inevitably miss a ton of sessions because of the schedule.

At the very end, I attended a great session by the co-founder and developer of Agile Zen, Nate Kohari. It’s a unique project management web app written in ASP.NET MVC 2 and jQuery.

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Announcing 59 Days of Code (a Fresno-area web & mobile app competition)

By on February 25, 2010 in Tech in Fresno

I’m excited to announce the CVBI is officially kicking off a web & mobile app showcase/competition for the Fresno area:

59daysofcode.com

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Out of Eggs, a web app built in ASP.NET MVC, jQuery & jQuery UI

By on November 10, 2009 in ASP.NET MVC, jQuery

I’m excited to announce outofeggs.com, a web app I’ve been working on for a while. It’s built on the techniques I’ve gone through in my Categorized Item List series (using ASP.NET MVC, jQuery & jQuery UI). Just create a list and see for yourself. The back end is SQL Server 2008.

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