So I got the all-clear that my eyes are healed, yay! For those who are a little late to this party, I recently suffered corneal abrasions on both my eyes that covered the majority of my corneas. They were chemically etched. Yikes is right! After 4 days completely blind, then another week of just ok vision I now have my vision back and eyes are healed. That is a lot to celebrate!

I’m passing on my excitement with a big blog sale! Its my opinion that business web sites can benefit immensely from blogs being incorporated. Any web site for that matter! To celebrate being back to designing and to also help raise funds to cover the cost of expenses related to my eye injury I’m having this sale.

When you purchase a web site design package and add a matching blog design to your order I will take %50 off that matching blog! I’ll design a theme to match the web design you ordered and install it to the associated WordPress blog on your new site! You’ll have a fresh new blog to chronicle all your excited about your fresh new web site.

How do you take advantage of this sale? Simply add your design package using the package picker (Get Started @ top) and check the “Add a Matching WP Blog Theme” option. After you add that to your cart you can use the coupon code: BLOGTASTIC at checkout to get your discount.

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That’s it, its that easy! So check out the design packages and get your BLOGTASTIC savings on your matching WordPress blog theme.

A while back I posted that I don’t offer SEO, the reason behind that I feel Search Engine Optimization is a long term relationship between the site owner and the web site. SEO is a process that not only includes the basic set up, but also the continual attention of the site owner. Its not something you can just “do” as a one time thing and forget about. With that said, I’m getting a lot of requests to help with SEO type services. I’ve decided its time to make these services available for those who need a bit more help getting started.

What I’ve decided to offer are starter services that will jump start the SEO process for the web site. I still encourage site owners to learn more about how to optimize their site and work towards reinforcing the optimization with long term efforts. In the Add Ons – A la Carte category of my online ordering area I’ve added some basic SEO services to help get you started.

Some of the services listed include adding meta tags or pages and products, keyword research, full product optimization, site map creation and submission, search engine submission, Analytics creation and integration, social networking setup and integration (including Twitter and Facebook) as well as various Wordpress social networking plugin setups.

A few of these are offered as stand alone add ons and the rest are part of the SEO services customized package where you can pick and choose which services to add.

All SEO services are for sites and blogs designed by me, Web Savvy Mama. If you have a site designed by someone else please contact me using my custom quote form to inquire about the cost for your SEO package.

Some examples of blog templates I’ve done to match web site designs. Some of these are pretty old and these are just a few of the many I’ve done.

You may have noticed, or not, that there is a floaty box in the upper right corner of the Web Savvy Mama blog now. This is the status window for the Facebook Connect plugin I’m trying out on this blog. What is Facebook Connect? Its a plugin that you can add to your wordpress blog to allow your readers to login and comment using their Facebook profiles. Not only with they use the same login, but their avatar will be the one from their Facebook profile as well.

The good part is that if you use Facebook as a marketing tool and login as your business, it can be a great way to promote. It also keeps the various logins to a minimum and makes it easier for your readers to post.

The bad part is that, so far, I haven’t found a way to implement a nickname instead of displaying your full name as it does on Facebook. Crossing my fingers that they fix that in a future release.

Brave enough to post from your Facebook? Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Web Savvy Mama has been creating custom matching blogs for web designs for awhile now. I specialize in creating WordPress blogs that match the current website design.

Why is a blog so important for my website?
Blogs are an excellent way to bring readers and potential customers to your website! Its an easy way to keep your content fresh and up to date. Blogs are also a great way to highlight a product that may not normally get noticed or to announce an awesome sale you plan on having! Want an easy way for visitors to stay up to date on on your site’s activities? Add a blog. Want to share a find you found on the internet your customers may enjoy? Blog about it! Maybe you want to do a link swap with another person in your niche business area. A blog post is the perfect way to announce your affiliation or show your love of the other shop.

Above all, blogging on your website increases your textual content and gives a medium for you to post your desired keywords and link to your products. Search engines love blogs and when your blog is indexed, so is your website along with all those valuable keywords and content!

What blog platform should I choose?
Web Savvy Mama has a soft spot for WordPress. I love the flexibility, the integration and the enormous amount of plugins available. WordPress is also FREE and can be hosted right on your website with your domain.

How can Web Savvy Mama help?
I specialize in custom matching WordPress themes. If you have a website, chances are I can create a theme to match it. If you have a Web Savvy Mama designed theme even better, just tell me you want a blog theme added to your design package. Matching blogs from an existing design start at just $80! Feel free to contact WSM to get a quote for your blog project.

Old Man Pickles is the creation of my highly imaginative 9 year old son.

He’s a spit fire of an old man with lots to say. He can’t help but stick his nose into other people’s business and is always anxious to pass on the tid-bits he finds interesting!

What better way to celebrate my son’s birthday than by bringing his favorite character to life? Happy 9th Birthday Andrew!

Old Man Pickles will bring his readers random quirky news blips all while demonstrating that blogging doesn’t have to be hard and scary.

If Old Man Pickles can do it, surely you can too! Read about Old Man Pickles and his quirky blog here. This blog demonstrates some of the out of the box creativity WSM likes to implement when it comes to blog and site format.

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