Credits

These are the primary tools and services used to build this blog.

Publishing Platform: WordPress

"WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time."

Template: StudioPress

Layout and design are essential to any publishing platform. StudioPress offers a range of professionally designed WordPress templates. StudioPress ’s coding is high quality, leading to fast page-loads and excellent SEO. Best of all, their forums and support are excellent. This site uses a modified version of the Code Blue theme by Brian Gardner

Hosting: BlueHost

We use BlueHost because we’ve heard good things about their service from other businesses and it comes highly recommended by WordPress.org probably because WordPress updates are made available within 24 hours of release. They’ve got a load of great features and pricing. Plus, BlueHost has won lots of awards and accolades for their web hosting and support.

Email & Newsletters: AWeber

AWeber provides easy-to-use sophisticated auto-responder and email management services at extraordinarily low prices. AWeber has the enviable record of the highest percentage of email deliverability, which means they are doing a pretty good job to make sure emails make it to your inbox.

Publishing Tools: Site Build It!

SiteBuildIt! (SBI!) is a high-quality publishing platform that provides a wide range of tools, tutorials, and services to enable everyone from the newbie to the highly experienced web professional to not just build a website, but to build an online business. While we use WordPress here, this blog would not be possible without SBI!’s tool BrainstormIt! or it’s site-building tutorial, both of which we still use regularly.