E-book Category: E-Marketing
E-book Title: Sites that Soar!
Book Description: No webmaster? No budget? No problem! WordPress magazine themes made EASY! Let me show you, step-by-step, how to build your own magazine-style website Hello,
Would you like to use WordPress, but you're not a computer geek?
I understand. I'm an artist, and I hate the bland, basic WordPress design. I need a site that looks polished. I want a professional-looking WordPress theme.
But... I didn't want to learn computer code, and I didn't know the first thing about hiring someone to install WordPress themes for me.
For my website, I chose the Branford Magazine theme. It's FREE, and I like it even better than expensive themes.
But, it took me over 70 frustrating hours to figure out how to install and customize my website. I took lots of notes, and my next website took me about three hours, total. Wow! What a difference! I decided to share my time-saving tips with others. That's why I wrote my book, "Sites that Soar!"... "Sites that Soar!" will show you how to... There's even more good news. Updating my website takes less than a third as much time as it used to. That's a huge improvement!
And, here's the really amazing part:
My "Business of Art" site had been buried somewhere on page five at Google.
Within three days of using WordPress with the Branford Magazine theme, my site soared to the third spot on Google's first page, for my keywords.
(For awhile, I even outranked American Artist magazine, the Getty museum, and Wikipedia.)
In the month that followed, my website remained at least among the top five. [ screenshot 1 - screenshot 2]
And, it's stayed on Google's first page. (Six months later, in Feb 2009, it's still in the third spot when I search on business art (or business + art), though I haven't updated the site since December.)
I did the same thing with two more websites, with similar results. Each time, I learned more shortcuts. Now, I can customize a WordPress theme--with fresh graphics, a unique sidebar, and all the plugins--in a little over an hour. I wrote this book so that you can do the same thing. This 150-page book shares everything I learned about tweaking WordPress and the Branford Magazine theme.
(You can use this same information with most magazine-style WordPress themes, including Mimbo.)
I explain the process, step-by-step. I've included lots of screenshots from WordPress 2.7. Here are what two of the pages look like. You can download the actual pages (as PDFs), to see them.
Here's a partial list of chapters: - Getting started
- Customizing your theme
- Important backups
- Branding: Your header graphic
- Adding articles
- Categories
- Finding your Category ID numbers
- Editing your website code
- Sidebar changes
- Widgets
- Tabs: Changing their names and contents
- Customizing your homepage
- Homepage graphics explained
- Custom fields and graphics
- Uploading graphics in WordPress
- Adding homepage graphics
- Plugins
- Managing a large site with WordPress
- Copying older pages into WordPress
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix 1: Installing WordPress (auto)
- Appendix 2: Installing WordPress (other)
- Appendix 3: WordPress for SEO
- Appendix 4: Creating an .htaccess file
- Appendix 5: Changing header background, image size
- Appendix 6: Navigation bar changes
- Appendix 7: An actual timeline
- Glossary
- How to add articles (step-by-step summary)
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