I run several blogs and the plugin needs for each vary depending on niche and audience. However, there are five plugins that I find myself ALWAYS using.

Akismet-This plugin is always part of the default WordPress install. It is great at weeding out most of the spam. You will need an API key from wordpress.com but [...]

Finding ideas for a website design can be difficult, but galleries are great places to reap some ideas. The following post will list five places to get inspiration for any type of design.

Design Bombs- This gallery allows comments, and rating so that you can see how people react to the designs. This would give you [...]

I have joined ProBlogger’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge and one of the first things that I was asked to do was to do a SWOT Analysis for our blogs. I followed Darren’s SWOT Analysis outline and this is what I came up with:
1. Define Your Mission and Goals-I have talked about [...]

Last weekend, Montreal police arrested 12 people with counts of debit card fraud. And, I don’t know if this is a coincidence but my stepmom-in-law had money stolen from her bank account because of credit card fraud.
These people were busted for performing transactions for debit card information that was scraped in Thunder Bay (My City-woo!).
How [...]