If you have a WordPress blog, an old fashioned mailto: link should be a thing of the past. Besides making your site that much more vulnerable to spam bots, it just screams 1998! So if you haven’t done so yet, ditch that mailto: link and try out one of the many easy to use and feature-rich contact form plugins available for WordPress.

WordPress 2.2 (Getz) is now available. It touts new widget compatibility and has squashed over 200 bugs (that’s scary).

Pixelita Designs specializes in designing WordPress-driven personal and small business/professional web sites. We also perform site maintenance, WordPress installs and upgrades. Mention our Design and Industry blog and get your WordPress upgraded for $20 instead of our usual $30!

That’s not only a great line from the movie Clerks, and the title to this article, it’s something you definitely don’t want to be.

The good thing about owning your own business is that you are free to decline a job that you perceive to be beyond the scope of your expertise, that will take more time than you have to spare, or otherwise is not cost-effective for you to undertake. And also simply because you have a gut feeling that the customer is going to be more trouble than he’s worth. So how do you get on this short list? Easy. Just do any one or more of the following, which I see quite often at a lot of the ‘lance sites: