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Web Design for WordPress – Especially Newbies and DIYers

Articles and resources to design and launch your own WordPress blog or website using free and premium themes. Web design for WordPress sites. Articles and resources to design and launch your own WordPress blog or website using free and premium themes. Most articles refer to the top two WordPress theme frameworks on the market – [...]

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Thesis Site Review: The Green Man Store

The Green Man Store is a functional yet beautiful New Age website – different to the usual blog. An example of a customized Thesis site. 10 great design elements and some minor improvements.

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Creating your own Facebook Landing Page using a Mini Website and Thesis

How good is your online presence? Have you set up Twitter, YouTube and Facebook accounts? Are they linked to your main website? Most successful bloggers have Twitter, YouTube and Facebook accounts that match the appearance of their main websites. Customizing the appearance of your Twitter and YouTube accounts is fairly easy. You just upload a [...]

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Scribe has the formula to writing for the web

Scribe is a software program created for bloggers to help you write great articles. It is a professional editor on your computer desktop. It analyses your article and provides you with a report that gives you an overall score, a list of keywords that any search engine would associate the article with and lots of [...]

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How to use Thesis to create a Facebook landing page

Don’t use unreliable and server hungry plugins or additional premium WordPress themes to create a Facebook landing page. You don’t even have to pay somebody to create a Facebook landing page for you. If you have about an hour, access to your web server, access to your WordPress administration area and you can follow some [...]

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A guide for adult minions and children starting their first blog

Teaching kids how to blog is not that different to explaining what the Internet and blogging is all about to an adult starting out. You just have to be more concise, more accurate and focus on particular areas more than others. A guide for adult minions helping their children set up their own website. An article for New Age Bloggers and bloggers of the future – our children.

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Simple, Clear, Concise, and Stops You in Your Tracks

Ever look at Google’s home page?  The elaborate and complex technology that makes Google do its thing is concealed by a façade which is about as simple as you can possibly get. Think about what you see on the screen. A colorful buoyant six-character logo, a large empty search box, and no more than a [...]

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Getting started with Thesis without losing the plot and pulling your hair out

If you are new to blogging or WordPress you need to have realistic expectations of what is involved to avoid disappointment and get the most out of your blogging experience.

You don’t need to tear your hair out trying to get your new WordPress site to work.  You also don’t need to give up as soon as you realise you can’t get your newly purchased theme to work the way you want it to.

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