February 25th, 2010
I’m sure you have all thought about making your own website before. Some of you may have made one or had one made. Where the rest of you said forget about it. When I started to think about making a website I began by thinking about how to build one from scratch. I spent a lot of time on the design and had graphics designers come and give me some ideas for layouts. All of this was the biggest waste of time. Unless you plan on making some ground breaking web application that needs to be designed from the ground up, you should just invest in a great CMS. A CMS is a content management system. The point of this article is to give you an idea on how to be web independent with the use of Wordpress.
Before I talk about Wordpress you will need to understand what a host is. A host is a place that will store you website information that you can access with an ftp client. An ftp client is like a window that peeks into folders that the host has made for you on their server. When you connect with your host you will see the folders you can put your stuff in. Some people don’t even put a website on their hosted web-space. Some people just store files on it. The most important thing to know about your host is the hostname, username, and password. All these should be given to you once you purchase your web-space. On the host that you buy make sure you have PHP and MYSQL installed on it and get a database name database username and password too.
Now that you have a proper home for you website, go to Wordpress and follow their 5 minute installation and you will have a web blog up and running. The thing that is so amazing about Wordpress is that there are so many skins and thems you can download for free on it that will turn your web blog into anything you want it to be.
I made a Wordpress account into a Used Car database for Continental Honda and Hamburg Honda. Check it out. Wordpress is free. There are also many user friendly plugins you can download for it. If you haven’t already noticed this blog is also a Wordpress site.
The world almost requires you do everything online now so why wait and make sure you have your presence in the online community. If you have any questions regarding any of this just send me an email or post a message on the blog. Hope you all got something out of this post because I got so much out of using Wordpress.
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February 23rd, 2010
Shout out to Ryan Rubin for making my sisters board. It was a Hanukkah gift for you in December. I was really happy with it and so was my sister. I found It to be a great gift for any occasion. The gift is well personalized by allowing you to put any picture you want on it. This printed but Jon’s Board was hand painted.
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February 23rd, 2010
This was yet another board made by Ryan Rubin. I made the art using photo shop and he had one of his artists paint it on a deck which I bought for my Brother. Thank you for doing such a great job Ryan.
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February 22nd, 2010
At the intersection of Scott and Niagara St. In St. Catharines my good friend has indicated to me that there is a vacant spot in his plaza. The spot is 2230 square feet, where a restaurant used to operate. The Beer Store, St. Elizabeth Health Care, and a Hair Salon are currently in this plaza. If you know someone who is interested in this location you can be assured that you will be dealing with respectable people and those who I personally trust. He like Laura Dolman went to Waterloo University with me.
Please Contact:
Samir Chaudhry
1 416 893 2346
You can contact Samir for more location information. I will provide more pictures of the location in future postings.
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February 20th, 2010
Awake and Dreaming Photography.
Here is a new website you all may want to take a look at. Min0r touch-ups still need to be made to it I still think it’s great.
Laura Dolman is a girl I met at Waterloo University. She’s a down to earth type of girl who loves having a good time.
Her work is beautiful and would recommend her to anyone looking for a photographer.
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February 20th, 2010
Please Visit this link and let me know whether you were able to see the site.
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February 15th, 2010
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February 14th, 2010
The Peninsula Inn is a Hotel off Mcleod Rd in Niagara Falls. The Peninsula Inn is a family business just like Hamburg Honda and Continental Honda. The owners son is a great friend of mine from high school and university. This Saturday I decided to take my girlfriend out the Dragon Fly nightclub and afterwards have some fun in one of the Hotel rooms at the Peninsula Inn.
I called up my friend and asked him what he had available and he let gave me a list of different rooms to choose from. Being in the Spirit of Valentines day I chose one of his rooms that had a heart shaped jacuzzi in it. Unfortunately only smoking rooms were available with that particular jacuzzi so I opted for a room with a regular jacuzzi instead. When I got up to the room there was a note on the counter with a nice bottle of wine. The wine was a 1998 Thirty Bench Videl-Reisling mix. On the note my friend had written the following:
“Dave,
Hey Brother, this bottle of wine is my gift to you from our collection of wine. Check out the year of that bad boy.
Have a good weekend and enjoy your stay.
My Friend”
The room was a blast and I had a time with my girlfriend I’ll never forget. I was very happy choosing his place to stay because I knew that whatever I got from him would be honest and reliable. I wanted to thank my friend by making this post so other people might consider going to his Inn. I also wanted to proclaim the importance of keeping business within the group of friends you know and trust. If they have a service which you can benefit from, you should go about getting that service. Maybe that service or product is competitive with what your currently looking at. It’s a great idea to at least consult your friend and get an idea about what they think and what they have to offer.
Thanks Man!
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February 14th, 2010
This year is the year of the Tiger. For those who don’t know, if you are born in the year of the tiger. This is the Tiger’s year off. So make sure you wear lots of red because this year your Sign won’t be watching over you! Last year was the year of the Ox which was my year! So don’t forget wear lots of red this year Tigers.
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February 12th, 2010
Welland Minor Midget Hockey
A year and a half ago I was selling cars at Hamburg Honda in Niagara Falls and this Family approaches me looking for a pre-owned Honda Civic. They said they were looking all over and they wanted to find a vehicle that fit their daughter’s budget. I took them around the lot and we spent a lot of time talking and laughing. I had a feeling that for sure these people would buy a car from me but the only problem was I didn’t have the colour that the daughter wanted. They took a look at my car and then said that they were going to go to Markham to look at a Civic that was advertised privately. I told them I had a bad feeling about it because the price seemed awfully low and once they reach Markham, it may be really hard to say no to that car because it was exactly in the price range the daughter wanted to spend and the right colour. The family stayed firm and went to Markham anyway. The next day I was pacing around the showroom around 7:00pm thinking that I believe I’m going to lose a deal to a hit car because it was black. I immediately jumped on the phone to call the family and you wont believe what I heard when they picked up.
They said, “David, we are buying the car!” I was pretty depressed the moment I heard that but for some reason I didn’t really want to give up the sale. I asked if they were provided a CarProof on the vehicle and they said that the car was in an accident. I exclaimed to them how much of a mistake this would be buying a vehicle privately when our price wasn’t too much higher and they were going to get some extra benefits from dealing with our dealership vs. buying privately. They then turned the car down in Markham and came back to Hamburg Honda to buy a car from me.
Today this family are great friends of mine. I guess they must have felt how sincere I was about earning their business, and also wanting them to be driving around in a car I trust. I named this article Welland Minor Midget Hockey because the son of the family who bought the car from me is on that team. Continental Honda, our sister dealership and where I work now has sponsored their team by buying all their Jerseys. I attend their games regularly and it is immeasurably better than watching Hockey on TV. Their team is called the Welland Tigers.
I think if you take pride in what you do, are sincere and honest about the work you do for other people one way or another people will end up doing business with you.
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