http://www.kalanitdesigns.com Helping you create an authentic and effective web presence Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:30:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A WordPress powered site that also powers your online store sounds like the perfect combination. It gives you the ability to combine your blog activity with your online products, all within the simple, yet powerful WordPress dashboard. There are currently several options to transform your WordPress blog into an online store, ... http://www.kalanitdesigns.com/blog/2010/01/wordpress-e-commerce-solutions/ I recently read an amazing post by Hiro Boga called What I Learned About Life and Business from Crossing the Road in Bombay.  Wow, if you've not had the opportunity to cross a road in Bombay, reading Hiro's post will give you that chance.  She so completely captures the memory ... http://www.kalanitdesigns.com/blog/2009/08/social-media-and-street-crossings/ If you've tried to figure this one out, you may have discovered the apparent difficulty --- you can't actually do that.  Well, at least not directly. But you can include any module within a content item in Joomla 1.5. So the first thing you need if you want to include affiliate ... http://www.kalanitdesigns.com/blog/2009/07/adding-html-joomla-1-5-content-items/ Just might hurt you.  Ignorance isn't really bliss, at least not in every situation. Sometimes, what you don't see can be more important than what you actually see. For a graphic (as in visual) example, consider a tree. We look at a tree and see a trunk, limbs, perhaps leaves and ... http://www.kalanitdesigns.com/blog/2009/07/what-you-dont-see/ Ever walked into a room and just felt something was off? No, it wasn't the picture hanging crooked on the wall or the furniture arrangement.  It was just a feeling in your gut that something wasn't right. A room holds more than pictures and furniture; it also holds a myriad of ... http://www.kalanitdesigns.com/blog/2009/07/its-more-than-a-website/ David Seltzer has been in alternative healing for over twenty years, and has created a very effective healing modality that he calls Healing Pathways. He not only heals; he also teaches and writes, and so he has a lot of valuable written material.  But the material was  only available to ... http://www.kalanitdesigns.com/blog/2009/06/healing-pathways/ Stephen M. Cohen provides an extraordinarily varied professional background, which includes the honor of serving as a Palm Beach County Judge from 1993 through 1999 before choosing to re-enter private practice. When he re-entered private practice, he wanted a custom website to communicate with current and prospective clients. Stephen had spent ... http://www.kalanitdesigns.com/blog/2009/06/law-offices-of-stephen-m-cohen/ Dr. Shoshana Savyon was too busy healing folks to invest in getting a website.  But she finally saw the value in getting online and being able to share her knowledge with a much wider audience. Since Shoshana wanted to add regular posts and articles to the site, we decided to use ... http://www.kalanitdesigns.com/blog/2009/06/heliotrope-holistic-health/ A small site designed for Lynne Shaner, an EFT practitioner in Washington, DC, who specializes in stress/anxiety, PTSD, corporate/personal success, and pain management. Clean, elegant, minimalist design with very light content management system. Lynne, as many of my clients, started off with a DIY (do it yourself) solution but quickly realized ... http://www.kalanitdesigns.com/blog/2009/06/praxis-eft-with-lynne-shaner/ A brochure site for a small bookkeeping service in Texas. Dolly offers bookkeeping services to local farmers, ranchers, and small businesses, and needed a way to share about her services when she met people and prospective clients. What better way to convey TLC than by a heart!  This design was easy ... http://www.kalanitdesigns.com/blog/2009/06/tlc-bookkeeping/