Relaunch of Community Home Health and Hospice Working with Pinnacle Marketing Group, we launched a redesigned web site for Community Home Health and Hospice (chhh.org). Besides providing information for CHHH’s services it allows staff to add and manage job openings. The site also facilitates volunteers and charitable donations. About Community Home Health and Hospice Community Home Health > Click Here
What is WooCommerce? WooCommerce is a robust, free, scalable plugin that allows you to integrate an online store into any WordPress web site. WooCommerce allows you to manage almost any eCommerce web site along with your other site content. More Info about WooCommerce extensions WooCommerce Pricing The WooCommerce toolkit is free. No license fees, no > Click Here
If you have an idea for a new business or just want learn more about interactive marketing, sign up for Phoogoo’s first ever FREE Small Business Seminar. The seminar will walk you through the steps of setting up and managing a wordpress-powered web site as well writing content, search engine optimization (SEO) and social media. > Click Here
SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. What it does: SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. Further SEO Smart links allows you to set > Click Here
Magic Action Box is an easy to use but powerful lead generation plugin that lets you create a focused and high converting action box in minutes. What it does: Features: Easily add an action box before or after a blog post or page Easily add opt in forms – with stunning designs – to your > Click Here
Scribe is a professional content marketing application designed for online content creators. What it does: Once you have performed your research, Scribe’s Content Analysis provides a fast yet intuitive way to check the alignment of your writing to the content on your site – helping you quickly insure that your content and site are focused > Click Here
Social Author Bio automatically adds an author bio box along with Gravatar and social icons on posts. What it does: New Features Fully integrated Google+ authorship (shows Google+ Avatar in search results) Added custom field (check box) on edit screen providing the ability to disable of author box on individual pages/posts New shortcode [social_bio_icons] which > Click Here
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) allows you to see which plugins are slowing down your site. This plugin creates a performance report for your site. What it does: This plugin creates a profile of your WordPress site’s plugins’ performance by measuring their impact on your site’s load time. Often times, WordPress sites load slowly because of poorly configured > Click Here
Editorial Assistant finds related posts and related images while you write your post. What it does: Add related posts and related images to your blog. You save time, increase your SEO, and become a member of our network of over 120,000 bloggers! Related posts from your own blogs and the network. Related posts can have thumbnails too! Increase > Click Here
Advanced Excerpt offers Sseveral improvements over WP’s default excerpt. The size can be limited using character or word count, and HTML markup is not removed. What it does: Features Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included) Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or > Click Here
Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate your thumbnails after changing the thumbnail sizes. What it does: Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments. This is very handy if you’ve changed any of your thumbnail dimensions (via Settings -> Media) after previously uploading images or have changed to a theme with > Click Here
WP Super Cache is a very fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static html files. What it does: This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts. The static > Click Here
Events Made Easy is a full-featured event management solution for WordPress. What it does: Events Made Easy (formally called ‘Events Manager Extended’) is a full-featured event management solution for WordPress. Events Made Easy supports public, private, draft and recurring events, locations management, RSVP (+ optional approval), Paypal, 2Checkout, Google Checkout and Google maps. With Events > Click Here
Event Espresso a WordPress event registration and ticketing manager plugin that allows you to create and manage events, track rsvps, take payments, create custom registration forms and emails, seating limits, multiple price options and discount codes to printable tickets and seating charts. What it does: Event Calendar Customizable Event Designs Multiple Ticket & Pricing Options > Click Here
Strength & Flexibility WooCommerce is built using WordPress best practises both on the front and the back end. This results in an efficient, robust and intuitive plugin. Smart Dashboard Widgets & Reports Keep a birds-eye view of incoming sales and reviews, stock levels and general store performance and statistics all from the WordPress dashboard or > Click Here
The Disqus comment system replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus. What it does: Disqus, pronounced “discuss”, is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community. The Disqus for WordPress plugin > Click Here
WP Touch automatically transforms your WordPress website for mobile devices, complete with ajax loading articles and smooth effects when viewed from popular mobile web browsing devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, Android mobile phones, BlackBerry OS6+ mobile devices, and more! What it does: The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, > Click Here
With Buddy Press you can build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community. What it does: BuddyPress lets users sign-up and start creating profiles, posting messages, making connections, creating and interacting in groups, and much more. A social network in a box, BuddyPress lets you easily build a community for > Click Here
Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com. What it does: Features include: Simple, concise stats with no additional load on your server. Previously provided byWordPress.com Stats. Email subscriptions for your blog’s posts and your post’s comments. Social networking enabled comment system. Likes, allowing your readers > Click Here
Kwayy HTML Sitemap will generate HTML (not XML) sitemap for your sitemap page. The plugin will not only show Page and Posts but also your other Custom Post Type like Products etc. You can also configure to show or hide your Post Types. You just need to create a page for Sitemap and insert our > Click Here
Tiny MCE Advanced allows you to use advanced HTML editing capabilities within pages and posts. What it does: This plugin adds 16 plugins to TinyMCE: Advanced HR, Advanced Image, Advanced Link, Advanced List, Context Menu, Emotions (Smilies), Date and Time, IESpell, Layer, Nonbreaking, Print, Search and Replace, Style, Table, Visual Characters and XHTML Extras. Features Imports > Click Here
Twitter Widget Pro is a widget that properly handles twitter feeds, including parsing @username, hashtag, and URLs into links. It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how log ago it happened (about 5 hours ago, etc). More Information Plugin Url: http://bit.ly/130au6B Cost: Free – Donation Supported > Click Here
Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This is particularly useful if you are migrating pages from an old website, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation. What it does: New features include: 404 error > Click Here
Simple Page Ordering allows you to simply drag and drop the page into the desired position. What it does: Order your pages, hierarchical custom post types, or custom post types with “page-attributes” with simple drag and drop right from the built in page list. Simply drag and drop the page into the desired position. It’s that > Click Here
WP Clone allows you to move or copy a WordPress site to another domain or hosting server and easily make and restore backups. You can also use it to move your site to/from local server hosting, to create copies of your site for development or testing purposes, to backup your site, and to install pre-configured > Click Here
Advanced Custom Fields allows you to fully customise WordPress edit screens with powerful fields. Boasting a professional interface and a powerfull API, it’s a must have for any web dev What it does: Features Visually create your Fields Select from multiple input types (text, textarea, wysiwyg, image, file, page link, post object, relationship, select, checkbox, radio > Click Here
The Google Analytics plugin adds the required javascript for google analytics. What it does: Connect your wordpress site with your Google Analytics profile to allow the site to report statistics. Simple set up by pasting the UA code. More Information Plugin Url: http://bit.ly/ZUfLoo Cost: Free – Donation Supported Phoogoo Evaluation: Recommended How to use it: Coming soon
Simple Add Pages and Posts allows you to simply add multiple posts or pages at once by entering their titles. This is a handy tool when setting up the initial site architecture or when adding multiple posts to a blog or other custom post type. What it does: Add multiple pages or posts at one time > Click Here
TablePress is a free WordPress plugin that enables you to create and manage tables on your site. No HTML knowledge is required, as a comfortable interface allows to easily edit table data. Tables can contain any type of data, even formulas that will be evaluated. An additional JavaScript library can be used to add features like sorting, > Click Here
Gravity Forms allow you to quickly build and design your WordPress forms using the form editor. Select your fields, configure your options, and easily embed forms on your WordPress powered site using the built in tools. Set up custom notifications, store and export entries, and take advantage of numerous extensions for added functionality. What it does: Multi-Page > Click Here
WordPress SEO by Yoast allows improve your site’s SEO on all needed aspects by allowing you to visually see and edit the search result snippet for each of your pages and posts. WordPress SEO forces you to choose a focus keyword when you’re writing your articles, and then makes sure you use that focus keyword everywhere. What it does: > Click Here
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen. Akismet is a “must have” plugin for preventing comment spam. What it does: A comment status history, so you can easily see which > Click Here
Blubrry PowerPress brings the essential features for podcasting to WordPress. Developed by podcasters for podcasters, PowerPress offers full iTunes support, web audio/video media players and more. What the Blubrry PowerPress plugin does: HTML5 video support: Add both mp4 and webm media to each episode for maximum platform compatibility Full iTunes Support: Adds iTunes compliant podcast feeds > Click Here
This great plugin allows you to install multiple plugins at a time rather than going through a process of searching, installing and activating multiple plugins. All you need to do it put the names/url/path-to-zip of the plugin the text box and press install button and all those plugins will be installed for you. This is > Click Here
For many businesses mobile optimization adds yet another level of complexity to their decision making. One common area of confusion is understanding the difference between a responsive web site and a mobile version. Responsive Web Site A responsive site is one that detects what device the user is on (PC, Tablet, Smart phone) and displays a different set > Click Here
Now you can watch the rough and tumble sport of roller derby from the comfort and convenience of your home computer or mobile device. The new site is called WFTDA.tv. Phoogoo teamed with the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) and Blaze Streaming Media to launch the new ite. The site allows visitors to buy > Click Here
1. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars (see fig 1.) Fig. 1 2. Click Add Account… 3. Scroll to the bottom and choose Other (see fig 2.) Fig 2. 4. Click Add Mail Account (see fig 3.) Fig. 3 5. Enter the following settings: (see fig 4.) Name: [Your Full Name] Address: [you@yourdomain.com] Password: [password] Description: [description] Fig. 4 6. Change from IMAP > Click Here
Summary: This post is about using Google Ad Words as a tool for Keyword Research. If you are unfamiliar, Ad Words is a tool that allows you to buy advertising on Google. Today, however, we are going to use this as a tool for keyword research. Watch the video and follow the steps below. > Click Here
Data, stats, analytics – oh my! These are a few of Apprise Health Insight’s favorite things. As the premier resource for hospital and health system data and analytics in Oregon, health care executives and policymakers rely on Apprise for analysis on critical topics such as: • Financial effects of Medicare/Medicaid policy changes • Hospital quality > Click Here
Here’s a handy video from InterMarketing Smarts on how to use Google’s Ad Words tool to do keyword reasearch.
We launched a new site for GSI Water Solutions and it is pretty snazzy! GSI Water Solutions is a specialized consulting firm that provides innovative solutions to groundwater, environmental contamination, and water resource problems for municipalities, water districts, agribusiness, and industries in the Pacific Northwest, California, and overseas. GSI has been solving water resource problems > Click Here
Some like it hot and some keep it cool. Badcock Vodka found a way to please them both.Their Horseradish flavor radiates a subtle heat, while the Cucumber is truly cool and refreshing. Both flavors are the brainchild of our new client and Portlander, Josh Badcock. His vodka is handcrafted and bottled in Bend. Distilled from American grain, Badcock > Click Here
We are pleased to announce the launch of MyBike.com, our most recent Phoogoo creation. Founded in 2005, MyBike first began operations in Boston, MA. The company started as a college bike rental concept with a 10 bike fleet. Quickly, word spread about MyBike and the company grew organically. Today, their services include; monthly rentals, bike > Click Here
Social Marketing is probably not new to you. Perhaps you have a Twitter account or you know how to stalk your kids on Facebook, regardless, just about every American adult has had some form of Social Media exposure. The height of the buzz came in 2011, but it’s popularity has not slowed and brand’s are > Click Here
Phoogoo and sushi, a match made in heaven. When we were approached by Bamboo Sushi to build a new website for them, it felt like Christmas. Now the site is live and it feels like Christmas again! Bamboo Sushi is the first certified, sustainable sushi restaurant in the world. Daily, they strive to bring you > Click Here
At this time of year, Phoogoo is usually bowling away, every Thursday night, on a mission to bring home the 6 foot tall Ad League Bowling trophy. Sadly, that is not the case this season. With a growing office, a growing client list and too many commitments on the calendar – we had to skip > Click Here
As stated in their mission statement, “The August Wilson Red Door Project is a social change agent, using the arts as a catalyst for creating a lasting, positive change in the racial ecology of Portland.” This is our client, consider us proud. Phoogoo launched a new site > Click Here
We solve problems for our clients. Prior to their work with us, D’Vine Wine Distribution was managing 400+ wines on their website through static HTML pages. Every time that a wine was added, removed, or altered in any way – their staff was forced to make every adjustment through their HTML tables. Not only that, > Click Here
Another day, another site launch! This time for our client, Portland Candle. Portland Candle is a family owned business that specializes in providing decorative table lighting to the hospitality industry. Some of their products include; clean burning liquid paraffin fuel cells, wax candles, decorative candle holders and chafing dish fuel. They primarily market to restaurants, hotels > Click Here
What’s that? You would like your burger turkey, with SPAM, mustard, and fried pickles on top? Not a problem! That disgustingly awesome creation can be found at one place and one place only, The Original WOW! Burger. This build-your-own burger joint is the original “have it your way” place. Every detail plays to their uniqueness, all > Click Here
Residents of Portland can make themselves heard in a socially-focused web site called Portlandharborpartnership.com. We built this site under the direction of Metropolitan Group, a Portland -based agency that specializes in excellent non-profit and public-sector agency work. We also collaborated with Daryl Freier of fine-counsel.com who designed the web site. The site features an interactive map of > Click Here
Hot on the heels of the New York City Marathon version of our ASICS microsite (supportyourmarathoner.com), is a new site geared toward the Honda LA Marathon. We worked in conjunction with San Diego-based Vitro, and our development partner, Gauged2.com, to launch this site. Supportyourmarathoner.com allows supporters of marathon runners to post video messages that will be played at the > Click Here
If you have a WordPress-enabled site you can access the admin panel of the site by going to http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/wp-admin. Then type the username and password to access the site. Once you log in you will see the WordPress Dashboard where you can add/edit pages and posts. If you do not have a username and password > Click Here
The following are the steps to access web mail on a Phoogoo-hosted POP account Step 1: Receive your email settings Your POP account will contain the following settings. Please save these settings in a secure place that you can reference, but that others cannot access. Email: you@yourdomain.com username: you+yourdomain.com password: password Step 2: Access webmail 1. > Click Here
The following are the steps to updating email settings for an existing account to a Phoogoo-hosted POP account in Microsoft Outlook Step 1: Receive your email settings Your POP account will contain the following settings. Please save these settings in a secure place that you can reference, but that others cannot access. Email: you@yourdomain.com username: > Click Here
The following are the steps to configuring a Phoogoo-hosted POP account in Microsoft Outlook Step 1: Receive your email settings Your POP account will contain the following settings. Please save these settings in a secure place that you can reference, but that others cannot access. Email: you@yourdomain.com username: you+yourdomain.com password: password POP Server (Incoming): mail.yourdomain.com > Click Here
The following are the steps to configuring a Phoogoo-hosted POP account in Mac Mail Step 1: Receive your email settings Your POP account will contain the following settings. Please save these settings in a secure place that you can reference, but that others cannot access. Email: you@yourdomain.com username: you+yourdomain.com password: password POP Server (Incoming): mail.yourdomain.com > Click Here
It’s a nightmare scenario for any business owner. They type in their domain and instead of seeing their site they see an ominous warning message from Google saying that their site contains malware and it will infect your computer if you visit it. What do you do? Who do you call? 1) Make a note > Click Here
In my experience most clients who choose to do the Request for Proposal (RFP) process invite specific agencies to bid on the project. So they do a bit of research to narrow down a list of agencies they’re interested in working with and send them the RFP. It’s a bit of a balancing act. It’s > Click Here
Vitro Agency posted a nice case study video of last year’s ASICS 2010 New York City Marathon ‘support your marathoner’ project we collaborated on. The video demonstrates the concept behind the campaign and the impact it had on race participants on the course. We’re looking forward to helping with the 2011 version.
It’s always fun to see old friends do well. That’s why I was excited to see today’s article in the NY Daily News about WeWork. WeWork was founded by (my friend) Miguel McKelvey, and his business partner Adam Neumann. WeWork offers “beautiful, functional, flexible, month-to-month boutique office space.” But unlike a regular office tenants can > Click Here
How is it that there are still people out there using Internet Explorer 6? It’s a recurring nightmare here that within a month or two after launching a web site we’ll get an inevitable email from the client forwarded from one of their customers about how their beautiful new site looks horrible on their browser. > Click Here