Create a Professional Commerical Website on WordPress for Less than US$150

Setting up a professional looking commercial website – that must be time consuming and expensive – right? Wrong! a friend Shaun McGavin and I recently set up a professional commercial website for Shaun’s photography business.  We set it up over 3 or 4 evenings, around 3 hours per evening. It cost less than US$150 to set [...]

Automattic’s Open Source Business Model

The software business Automattic is best known for their WordPress blogging software, which has fast become the blogging platform of choice for most bloggers. Automattic has created this leadership position in part by using an open source business model. Their software is developed as open source, meaning it is free (no license fee) and anyone can access [...]