The official website of The Vancouver Convention Centre is designed using WordPress as a CMS. This is a great site and an even better example of what you can do using WordPress.

To set up your own WordPress site, visit my step-by-step tutorial

Setting up your blog for the first time can be a little intimidating. If you are holding off because you’re uncertain of where to begin, not to worry. This post will get you through the process unscathed. It really is painless, I promise!
Step One – Decide on a domain name (web address)
The first step to setting up your blog is deciding what you want your web address to be. To find out if a name is available, go to the GoDaddy homepage and use their domain search. Don`t buy your …

Most professional WordPress blogs allow for sharing on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin & such. You see retweet icons and social bookmarking buttons on most of your favorite blogs and you might be wondering how you can add these tools to your site too. After all, if we’re going to take the time to write quality content, we should make it easy for our readers to share it with their network.
Try using these plugins to make your blog more social:
Note: the first four plugins – ShareThis, Sociable, AddThis …

One of the greatest benefits to using WordPress  is being able to tap into the open source community. WordPress themes are everywhere – a lot of the time, for free! So, if you’ve decided that WordPress is your blogging platform of choice and you want to make your new site all pretty and whatnot, read on. This blog post will introduce you to some of my favorite sources for WordPress themes.
Free WordPress Theme Resources

WordPress free theme directory is the first place I go to look for themes. This extensive directory …

WordPress is the blogging platform of choice for a large percentage of professional bloggers. Whether you’re just starting to blog or you’ve decided to move from Blogger to WordPress, you’ll need a reliable place for hosting.
This is a list of the top rated hosting sites for speed, reliability and pricing. I’ve had the opportunity to try most of these hosting companies and my current hosting company of choice is FatCow. I like FatCow because, as their slogan says, they provide you with “great webhosting, no bull.” I also really like …

Google Webmaster Tools is a program used to gather information about your site’s visibility on Google. With it you can:

Learn how Google crawls your web pages and diagnose specific problems that Google is having accessing the site.
Discover how many external links are pointing to your website from other websites.
Learn more about your  internal links by seeing how many links within your own site are pointing to other pages on your site.
Learn what keywords Google is sending you traffic with and also where you rank for those keywords.
Register your site’s XML …

The easiest way to add an XML sitemap to WordPress is to use the Google XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress.
Here are the steps to follow for installing and setting up your XML sitemap:
1) Login to your WordPress Admin account.
2) Click on the Add New link in the left hand column under the Appearance tab.

3) Search for Google XML Sitemaps.

4) Click the Install link located in the far right column titled Actions.

5) A window will pop up asking you to install the plugin. Click Install Now.

6) On the next page, …

There are so many different options for new bloggers that it can make you dizzy trying to choose the right platform. If you are looking for a solution, you’re probably asking questions like:
‘Should I host my blog with Blogger.com or use WordPress?’
‘What is the difference between a hosted blog platform and a self hosted blog platform?’
‘Will it cost me anything to run my blog, and if so, how much?’
Let me begin by saying that there are two different types of blogging platforms – hosted and self hosted.
A hosted blog …

Here’s a list of recommended plugins for WordPress.
These plugins can help with everything from search engine optimizing your WordPress blog to improving the load time of your websites pages. If  you’re starting a blog, I highly recommend adding these tools right away.
Askimet- This nifty plugin helps eliminate comment spam on your blog. If you’re tired of sifting through spammed comments on the latest miracle pill or porno site, this is a must use tool -  Visit plugin site
All in one SEO pack – A plugin to help optimize your blog …

Just as the title says: this post is about adding Google Analytics to your WordPress Site. With no further ado, here is how you do it.
1.) First, visit your Google Analytics account to give Google some information about your site. Once you login, click the add a new profile link like the one below:

2.) Fill in the required information as seen in the image below.

3.) When you click continue, Google will give you a snippet of code to add to your WordPress template. Copy that code and login to your …