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Helped launch new Wordpress website for Los Gatos fitness club, The Fit Edge, owned by Barbara Blackburn.
Designed by Energy Energy Design and programmed into  Wordpress by Carol.

Why Use Wordpress?

Jan 5th, 2010

With website technology changing daily, choosing the right software that organizes and runs a website is important.  Wordpress is a simple, expandable, online publishing platform and CMS (content management system) that runs many popular websites including CNN, Playstation and the New York Times.  View more notable Wordpress sites.
More good reasons to use Wordpress for building [...]

I recommend using BlueHost for hosting  your website.
BlueHost is trusted by over 740,000 domain owners and includes the following:

Unlimited storage space
Unlimited bandwidth transfer
24/7 support, live chat support, toll free phone
Free domain name
Host unlimited domains
Cpanel with Fantastico,  ecommerce, RoR,  Joomla,  Drupal, Email, ftp, MySQL, PHP 5, FastCGI & more
$6.95 per month

Best of all, BlueHost’s customer [...]

When you are ready to start, please email me the following items:

Website goal – What do you want your website to do for you?
Domain name & hosting service login information
Logo / photos / colors
Power Point slides with content (Remember people “scan” websites…don’t pack in long paragraphs.  Read writing for the web tips
List additional website components.  [...]

Help the search engines find your website by submitting your web address (ex. http://www.yourwebsite.com/) to the following services:

Google Add URL
Submit Express

The key to getting into the Google index and staying in the index is “backlinks”  from other sites.

Google Local Business Center
Yahoo Local
Yellow Pages Online

Remember to add your new website address to your email signature and [...]