Website In A Weekend Guest Authors

(Reading time: 14 – 22 minutes)

Website In A Weekend relies on guest writers to provide both depth and breadth of material, and to help build community.

A Website In A Weekend guest writer contributes his or her unique point of view. Topics range from adventures in SEO, the trials and tribulations of just starting out, to deeper, more complex subjects in WordPress customization.

Each person is listed in order of appearance:

Holly Jahangiri

Holly Jahangiri is a professional writer with over twenty years’ experience in technical writing, freelancing, fiction, poetry, and editing. Holly blogs at It’s All a Matter of Perspective: Mine (http://jahangiri.us/news)

1. September 23, 2009: Do-It-Yourself SEO Using Microsoft’s Bing Toolkit: Bing SEO toolkit provides a surprising amount of advanced data in a form easy to understand and act upon for getting better search engine results.

Josh Kohlbach

Josh Kohlbach, is a professional freelance programmer and web designer based in Brisbane, Australia. Josh’s blog Code My Own Road is packed with small business tips and technical tutorials for Do-It-Yourself entrepreneurs.

Josh has three articles published:

1. October 12, 2009 found Josh’s WordPress Gotcha! Find Out If Your RSS Feed is Helping or Hurting. Is your WordPress RSS feed giving you some trouble? Take a few minutes to make sure you it under control… Josh Kohlbach shows you exactly how to do it.
2. December 7, 2009: Playing The Host: A Quick Intro to Wordpress MU. Josh Kohlbach nails it again with fresh content, information about WordPress MU that’s hard to find anywhere on the web. Find out if WordPress MU will help you.
3. March 15, 2010: A Simple Guide To Wordpress Theme Installation. Installing a theme in WordPress is extremely simple, and Josh Kohlbach takes you through it one step at a time. Read more in this short, easy article.

Find Josh on Twitter: @jkohlbach.

Larry Herrin

Larry Herrin is a consultant, author and web entrepreneur. One of his eCommerce websites sells Palm Pre accessories He has owned and used three different Palm/Handspring smartphones since 2001. He is hopelessly addicted.

On October 19, 2009 Larry contributed the Top 10 Reasons why WordPress is the Future of the Internet. WordPress is just about ready to rule the internet. Here’s 10 reasons why you should use WordPress for your next small business (or personal) website.

Gabe Young

Gabe Young is a business professional with an entrepreneurial spirit. Gabe has an MBA and managed IT departments in the Fortune 500, creating strategies and tactics for some of the most popular websites. Visit Gabe at Free Blog Help dot Com.

On November 2, 2009, Gabe gave us the Top 5 Biggest Lies About Blogging for Money. Some people make a lot of money blogging, you could be one of them, just done believe the hype! Read more to make sure you aren’t falling into these 5 traps.

Andrew Caldwell

Andrew Caldwell – Self proclaimed leader of the free world, recently embarked on a quarter life crisis and has resigned from the employed working world. Recently started leadersofthefreeworld.org, giving you an insight into the mind of the free, cynical, entrepreneurial and passionate.

November 9, 2009: I’ve Just Wasted $53 on Hosting and a Domain, s***, What Now? HELP!?: You really can create your own self-hosted WordPress blog, Andrew lays it all out: the fear, the loathing, the thrill of success!

Blake Waddill

Guest author Blake Waddill is “leveraging” his education in Chemistry at Props Blog dot Com; resources and reviews site with addicted gamer twists. When he isn’t blogging, he’s hanging out with his wife and 3 year old step son or cheering for the Mavs and the Patriots.

November 16, 2009: DIY WordPress: 3 Reasons You Should Learn To Code: WordPress coding isn’t for everyone… but it might be for you! If you’ve ever wondered – or just need an excuse to start – Blake Waddill gives you the scoop.

Find Blake on Twitter: @propsblog.

Clicking Chick

The Clicking Chick rules the PPC world! CC has worked in online marketing departments for well-known brands. CC is adept at both writing and number-crunching; PPC uses both those skills. The Chicking Chick blog helps business owners succeed with PPC campaigns.

November 23, 2009: Stop It! Three Things to Stop Doing In Your PPC Campaign. If you aren’t getting great results in your PPC campaign, the Clicking Chick will set you straight. You owe it to yourself: save money, increase profit.

Kip Praslowicz

Kip Praslowicz has spend the past five years doing web development within the powersports industry. During his free time he is a film photography advocate, and is currently working in the discipline of night photography.

November 30, 2009: DIY WordPress: Creating Sidebars On-the-Fly in WordPress. Custom sidebars demystified! Kip Praslowicz reveals killer technique for custom “programming without programming.” Faster, better design: less money!

Walter Yu

Walter Yu is a practicing civil engineer… a professional engineer, in fact, licensed to practice engineering in the State of California. Walter also has a passion for technology and social media. I think you’ll agree Walter is also a damn good writer as well.

December 21, 2009: 7 Tips for Producing Snackable, Factual Content. Writing “snackable” content – short, interesting blog posts – effectively engages readers and increases traffic. Here’s 7 easy tips for writing snackables.

William Muncrief

William Muncrief spent most of his life as a millwright & building contractor. In 2006, William tackled internet marketing to sell chainsaw sculptures, and was quickly sucked into the world of web design. Visit his company Logisitics Studios.

January 4, 2010: Where Good Design Begins: Getting to know your customer. Take your time before starting with a customer to learn who they are and what they need. William Muncrief has some excellent tips for getting you started.

Mr. John

Mr. John is far from a media mogul but he does write on his weight loss blog and occasionally about making a secondary income online.

January 11, 2009: Search Your Blog Network With Google Custom Search. Once you have several blogs, you need Google Custom search to find articles in your network, and direct readers within your network. See how easy it is.

Gordie Rogers

Gordie Rogers is the founder and editor in chief of Lifestyle Design For You. Gordie came to Tianjin to teach English in February 2003 after teaching for a year in Korea. He plans to retire from teaching in June 2010 and move back to New Zealand to start his own business.

• February 1, 2010: How Moderating Comments On Your Blog Destroys Conversation. Are you making it difficult for people to comment on your blog? Inspiring discussion requires making it easy for people to participate; Gordie tells you how.

Carlos Velez

Carlos Velez is a writer with a full-time job on the side (for now!). He blogs about achieving goals and making change. Carlos’ blog, Conscious Me, allows readers to not only observe a journey to success in progress, but to participate and grow themselves.

1. February 8, 2010: Pre-Writing Is Your Friend – With Benefits (Part 1). Carlos Velez shares critically important experience for beginning – and experienced – bloggers: 7 vital benefits for writing well in advance of publishing.
2. February 10, 2010: Pre-Writing Is Your Friend – With Benefits (Part 2). Carlos Velez gives you 5 excellent reasons to develop a stash of blog posts you can use at a moment’s notice, and 5 easy ways to get your stash written.

Julie Angelos

Writing since she found a crayon in her hand, Julie is currently working as a Special Aids and English teacher at two Middle Schools in Italy. She has lived in Italy for more than 15 years, is married, has two young children and writes JBulie’s Blog.

• February 22, 2010: How Julie Became Successful Without Even Trying. Our friends and loved ones support us. Out teachers inspire and challenge. Read Julie’s challenge & how she developed habits of success with love of learning.
• February 24, 2010: How Julie Became a Published Writer (And you can, too). Your love of writing is a critical factor in being successfully published. Read how it happened for Julie. It can happen for you as well.

Marshall Craw

Marshall’s Interests include alternative power generation, Linux, and caring for cats, dogs, llamas, sheep, goats and chickens (with family help). Drop by at http://www.genverters.com to sign up for the Craw family list of tips for making your off grid move!

1. How to Read Your SEO Metadata Like Google (really fast). Search engines will display your metadata. Ensure it’s well-written “teaser” copy with relevant keywords. Marshall shows you how to quickly check your result.

Dave Thackeray

Dave Thackeray writes for love and beer, switching the importance of each indiscriminately. Dave adores making people smile, by documenting his writing career, or with impromptu tickling. Tell him your saucy gossip at wordandmouth.com.

1. March 8, 2010: Atahualpa Theme – Pixel Perfection, No Inca Required. Get a feel for the Atahualpa theme, and what it’s like to use for WordPress blogging. Killer guest post from Dave Thackeray.
2. April 12, 2010: Super or Total? Money Talks But Cache Rules. Super Cache? Total Cache? What’s the difference and you should you care? Dave Thackeray spills the beans, choose one or the other, but do choose.

Kelley Diels

Kelly Diels plots World Domination from her secret lair in the wild suburbs outlying Vancouver. She Is A Force Of Nature. Visit her blog Cleavage for the best writing on sex, money and meaning.

1. March 16, 2010: Not-So-Secret Blog Alliances – Kelly Diels bares (almost) all. Are you in a blog alliance? If not, maybe you should be. Secret alliance or open, helping others helps you.

Ricky Buchanan

When's not hanging out with her Seekrit Blog Club, you, can find Ricky Buchanan hanging out at iTalk Magazine, a site dedicated to brand new iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users. Stop by and say hello.

1. March 18, 2010: A League of Ordinary Bloggers – Anyone can do this, so few do. Ricky Buchanan explains how you can do what her group did: find blogging success by mutually supporting each other. Anyone can, that’s the extraordinary part.

Heather Craik

Heather writes The 3D Student providing video tutorials, reviews, and advice for 3D students. She loves working with light and texture for animation and modeling, writing, drawing, film and playing video games. Visit Heather at The 3D Student.

1. March 20, 2010: CommentLuv – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Saturday Morning Surfing. Heather Craik speaks the unspeakable about CommentLuv, we love it for it’s links, yes we do! Are you in the closet with CommentLuv? Come on out and visit.

Ben Henry

Ben Henry is an engineer, designer, farm/food activist, reader of literature, appreciator of good/clean/fair foods, urban beekeeper/gardener, pretend musician, professional music appreciator, consumer of great films and aspiring Olympic lifter. His day job is at Moto.

1. Why Apple’s iPad is Dead On Arrival. Apple’s iPAd has some compelling features – as well as some real limitations which may prevent it’s success. Find out more from a professional programmer.

Eleanor Edwards

Eleanor Edwards writes for UK registered charity Give A Brick (i.e., £1). Each brick helps pay for projects improving life for children, young people and elderly. Eleanor is also building a community for sharing experience. Listen and be listened to, safely, non-judgmentally.

1. March 29, 2010: How to WPTouch Your Way to a Mobile Friendly Wordpress Blog. WPTouch is an easy to install plugin for self-hosted Word Press blogs. Discover the benefits of WPTouch and learn how to add a custom logo to your header.

David Hutchison

David Hutchison is the editor of inGoal Magazine. Together with a team of writers and photographers who share his commitment and passion for goaltending he is building a leading site for the most important players on any ice hockey team. And he does it at night after the kids go to bed.

1. April 19, 2010: Hostest With the Mostest – Being a good neighbor on shared hosting. Are you a good neighbor on your shared host? You know you’re not when they send a nastygram. David Hutchison shows you how to overcome hosting limitations.

What about you?

Would you like to be a guest writer on Website In A Weekend? It’s pretty easy. Just shoot me an email and explain what you have in mind. If we can make it fit, you get the next available Monday!

The guest post guidelines are pretty simple: As long as you write more or less about WordPress, we can probably fit it in.