New website for Austin therapist, Lindsay Bell, M.Ed. Lindsay is a pre-doctoral intern at the Austin Psychology & Assessment Center.

Website for Austin therapist, Iektje Stephens, M.A.

The Herbal Soapworks website has now launched! I LOVED working on this project. Why? My client is super nice and fun to work with, and since I took pictures of the product, my whole house smelled like a wonderful herbal spa. This was a great project, not only because I got to use my camera and have fun taking pictures of soap in my front yard (much to the confusion of my neighbors) but I installed a shopping cart on WordPress. That was an adventure of sorts – more about that later. For now, if you are looking for wonderful, handmade herbal soap, please stop by Andrea’s store at www.HerbalSoapworks.com.

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I’ll look at sites that are cool, and think, “Hey, how did they make that site? Was it WordPress, Drupal, what?” Then I’ll look at the source and figure it out. Instead, you can use this handy tool from BuiltWith.com.

Find out how a site was made:
BuiltWith.com

Pinging your website is a good way to get the search engines aware of it. After you add a bunch of content, you should do a ping for maximum search engine visibility. There are services that will do it automatically for you, and ones that are manual. Here are some that are free.

My Page Rank
Submits to a whole slew of search engines.

Pingler.com

PingMyBlog.com
PingMyBlog.com is a service which does the hard work for you. We notify all the major blog directories in one go so that everyone knows about your latest blogs.

AutoPinger.com
You sign up for an account and sit back and relax. It’s all automatic.

FeedShark
Feed Shark is a free online tool that easily promotes your blog or website – with the simple push of a button! Feed Shark pings a variety of services to notify the world that your blog, website, RSS feed, or podcast has recently been updated or created! It takes less than a minute to use Feed Shark and saves you countless hours of time in the process! Enjoy our service and have fun!

PinGoat.com
Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog’s popularity.

Ping-o-Matic

Squidoo Pinging
You got a Squidoo page? You should ping it too. Don’t leave it cold and in the dark.

Are you searching for blogs that contain “do follow” links? Here’s a handy link to use for searching: WordPress Do Follow Finder

Majalahku WordPress Magazine Theme

Titanium Business WordPress Theme

Magazine Style WordPress Themes

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Adding the finishing touches on a new site for the amazing Houston interior decorator, Rainey Richardson. You can find her website at www.DecorateHouston.com.