Posts Tagged ‘web design’

A lot of people get confused between wordpress.com and wordpress.org so lets clear it up so you can make a decision on which to use for your business.
WordPress.com
PROS

It’s free and very easy to set up.
It’s hosted for you
Your posts are automatically backed up
Do well in search engines
There are about 70 themes (designs) to choose from [...]



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The difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org

Wordpress.org sites allow you to add unlimited amounts of the millions of cool plug-ins out there on the web. Most are free.  When our Big Fish clients get a website with us we build it in Wordpress.org and as part of the package we add these plug-ins:

SEO plug-in – to boost you in the search [...]



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Ultimate plug-ins list for Wordpress.org websites

Insert video with just a simple URL link from websites such as youtube, viddler, google video etc…
It’s so easy! You just click on the video type you want to insert and you’ll get this pop up window:

Then when you click OK it’s in! That easy!
IMPORTANT: If you have videos but need somewhere to store them [...]



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Wordpress most important icon #3: Inserting a video

This icon here will let you highlight some text and click it to display the text in a funky box.
I get this question from my clients all the time, asking how I do this on my site. So here it is!
It’s great for quotes but also if you just want to highlight a part of [...]



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Wordpress most important icon #2: Highlighted quotation box

Editing a Wordpress is the easiest update-your-site-yourself (CMS) system I’ve come across in my 12 years of web design. There are so many cool icons, tools, formating” thingees” but some people over look them. Usually because they don’t realise they are available.
What I’m about to show you is the available editing icons we offer our [...]



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Editing your Wordpress site: The 3 most important icons and tools

There is one icon that EVERYONE editing a website in Wordpress MUST know… yet its the most overlooked and most crucial of all.
It’s the KITCHEN SINK icon. It sits on the top row of icons when editing a page or post.
By default Wordpress usually only shows you the basic editing icons.
It usually shows something [...]

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EVERYONE editing a website in Wordpress MUST know this ONE icon

Website design is not just about sticking pretty pictures up on the net with some text and hoping someone will magically discover you. Your website is a powerful marketing tool that, if set up right, will be your most cost effective strategy ever.
It’s all very well to have a site but just EXISTING on the [...]

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7 ideas for your website (no matter what your industry) to save you time and make you a truckload of money

I’m putting my stats out here for the world to see. I have always known the importance of blogging but was always “too busy” to actually do it. Now that I have finally started to delegate more I have more time to test out powerful marketing strategies, like blogging, that I KNOW is golden!
Almost everyone [...]

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Blogging Proof: check out my actual stats

Paypal is one of the most commonly used Credit Card payment processing services out there. Probably because its free to set up and you only pay a small % of each sale. I use it myself!
So I wanted to share this video on how to insert a PayPal button to your website.
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VIDEO: How to add a paypal button to your wordpress website in under 3 mins

It always seems to be the simplest little things that make the biggest difference. This idea is no different. So simple yet the results are outstanding! I can prove it!
This is totally relevant for website planning AND anything you want to achieve really. It nothing new but it’s something we tend to not bother to [...]

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Do this 30 minutes a week – You’ll be blown away by what it does for your business