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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Responsive WordPress Theme Editing Home Page Widgets 1, 2 and 3 w/BONUS tutorial

Responsive WordPress Theme Editing Home Page Widget-1, 2 and 3 with Bonus tutorial included for editing Main Content and Featured Content areas as well as editing the Widget Title Size. Version 1.8.9.3 but applies to all newer versions as well. Please NOTE, CyberChimps keeps changing the file names to confuse everybody, home php was changed to front-page php, and now has been changed again to featured-area.php in newer versions.
More WordPress Tools, Tips and Tutorials from Allan at http://www.mindvisionmedia.net. Thanks! If this video helped you, please leave me a “Like” and don’t forget to subscribe to my Channel.

Here is a good reference that explains YouTube Video Players and Embedding code structure:

– Get your FREE guide for website beginners!:
http://mindvisionmedia.net/beginners-guide/

– Get your Responsive Theme “Area” map. It explains the different areas referenced inside the Responsive Theme from ThemeID (now CyberChimps), a great reference tool to help you learn your way around inside the Responsive Theme!:
http://mindvisionmedia.net/mvm-zone-map/

Friday, October 23, 2015

WordPress Support – Geek Street WP

Geek Street WP can help you understand WordPress and teach you how to take control of your Website or Blog again. http://geekstreetwp.com is where you need to go to get WordPress Help

Thursday, October 22, 2015

How to Make a WordPress Website and Blog – From Scratch!

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Learn how to make a professional website or blog with WordPress and the Hueman theme. The Hueman theme is very customizable so I show you how to come up with a professional color scheme that fits your look as well as how to create a logo. This is a step by step tutorial so absolutely nothing is left out. Therefore, absolutely beginners will be able to easily follow along!

Things covered in this video include:

0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:23 Bullet list of what you’ll be creating
0:02:13 A look at the exact same website you will be creating
0:08:24 Setting up a domain name and hosting account with a company called HostGator and getting your first month of web hosting for just 1 cent.
0:14:14 Installing WordPress on your hosting account
0:17:49 Configuring basic WordPress settings
0:21:38 Installing and utilizing the powerful and responsive free theme called Hueman
0:24:30 Creating pages
0:28:14 Specifying which page is your home page
0:29:37 Creating navigation menus with drop down functionality
0:38:23 Choosing a sidebar layout
0:41:46 Regenerate Thumbnails plugin to make sure your thumbnail images are the correct size
0:43:40 Finding and using free high quality stock photos
0:46:04 Using the visual editor to add images to your pages, format text, and create links with your images and text
0:48:15 Using a free online photo editing application called Pixlr to resize your images
0:54:55 Using shortcodes to further customize your pages
1:01:58 Embedding responsive YouTube videos onto your site and using additional short codes on the home page
1:09:06 Installing a contact form plugin
1:11:50 Installing an image gallery plugin
1:17:59 Installing the image gallery that comes packaged with the Hueman theme
1:20:08 Using basic HTML code to create HTML tables
1:30:35 Coming up with professional color schemes with a free online resource
1:36:08 Creating a textured pattern for your background
1:39:33 Creating a logo with a free online application called iPiccy
1:47:10 Using widgets and widget areas to add additional functionality to your site.
1:53:41 Using the Black Studio TinyMCE Widget plugin to have a visual editor widget
1:58:51 Adding widgets to footer widget areas
2:01:45 Configuring social media icons
2:04:26 Setting up an optional blog
2:07:25 Creating a blog post with a featured image and categories
2:14:02 Setting up comment/discussion functions
2:18:04 Using the featured post option and other blogging functionalities included with the Hueman theme
2:26:01 Setting up blog categories widgets
2:27:43 Using advanced layouts to fully control widgets and widget areas on any given post or page and using Hueman blog widgets

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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

What Is Reputation Management by RepWarn?

Online Reputation Management Service by RepWarn is your 24/7 Internet monitor. You can watch your brands, your products, your people and even your competition. Anytime anyone mentions your key words or phrases, even if they are sending an angry tweet about you or posting a review on YELP, REPWARN will know. When you KNOW what people are saying, you can deliver the service to make them happy. Too often though, you simply don’t know until it is too late.

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Interview: Julian Kingman of DesignManCan.com, WordPress web design business tips

WordPress web design for small businesses

Julian Kingman is a GetApp community member who left a review for ActiveCampaign and is now joining us on this episode of our podcast. Julian is a web designer and developer who uses WordPress to help small businesses reach their goals.

Tips to get more clients

To get more customers to his freelance studio, Design Man Can, Julian recommends these tips from personal experience.

Consistent work ethics deliver results and get word of mouth referrals.
Create profiles on TaskRabbit and Craigslist to get discovered by new clients.
Network with your local community through Meetup.com.
How to keep clients happy

Julian mentioned that a big part of his work was dedicated initially to discovering the real reason his clients need websites. These are some of the tools that help him stay on top of clients and diligent in his research.

Evernote to keep track of conversations and client needs/ideas/feedback.
Trello as a multitasking project management tool (CRM, project management and lead pipeline).
Recommended WordPress resources

Solving design and functionality issues is crucial to keeping his customers happy and referring him to their friends. These are a couple of WordPress tools that Julian fully recommends to anyone working with WordPress.

Pageline CMS, drag and drop custom theme creation.
Piklist to build functional web apps with WordPress.
ActiveCampaign for sales automation

What initially landed Julian on GetApp was how much of a fan he and his client where of ActiveCampaign. So much so that he left a review and now recommends it when Marketo is just toooooo pricey. The single thing Julian loves most about ActiveCampaign:

Tracking user behavior onsite to then send automatic and hyper relevant promotional messages based on what they did/saw on site.
Make sure to check out Julians work at www.DesignManCan.com

Add Contextual Help Screens to the WordPress 3.3 Help Tab

This video demonstrates how to add help tabs to the new WordPress 3.3 Help menu. I take you through the process line by line.