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Ok, so I was on a real estate blog of all places and I saw one of the coolest online videos I've ever seen. The most surprising thing is that it was created using this free Internet video creation and Web2.0 service called Animoto.

I'm releasing a new eBook next week called "How to Build and Market Killer WordPress Sites". So, I thought I would use Animoto to create a little promotional video for it that I can post to other video sharing sites using Traffic Geyser.

Today I have two videos for you.

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WordPress on Steroids - Texas Custom Choppers

Four months of hard work finally pays off! This week I launched pehaps the biggest WordPress project I've ever undertaken.

OK. I have to admit it. This was one of those projects that on several occasions I really wondered whether or not WordPress was the best platform to build on.

The client was very particular about how they wanted the pages to layout and it required a lot of customization of the theme. I actually started with the WPRemix theme but ended up with a hybrid of the WPRemix and my own customizations.

So why was I so insistent on making this work in WordPress?

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The WordPress Dream Theme Goes to Church

A friend of mine who is the associate pastor at a local church recently had an assessment done of his church's website. The church had a static HTML site that he updated himself using Dream Weaver. When he got the assessment back he quickly realized that he was in over his head and needed help.

Some of the things that needed to be fixed other than the out-of-date design were; inconsistent fonts and colors, content scattered randomly throughout the site, poor navigation, and bad SEO. (Search Engine Optimization)

Another need they had was the ability for staff members to be able to login from any computer and change/update content without having to purchase and install additional software.

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