A few months ago I joined an Internet Marketing Coaching Forum that has taken my Internet Marketing knowledge to a new level. The forum is jam packed with live webinars, quality training videos and a vast array of web page builder tools. I have learnt a multitude of different business models outside of just creating my own product – from affiliate programs, CPA, Domaining, as well as selling your Internet Marketing knowledge to offline business. What I love about the forum is that it also weekly webinars that feature guest speakers or question and answer sessions.
The forum is very active and there are resident experts on WordPress, SEO and Consulting that will help move you to a new level. Any question you have can be covered off by one of the experts. You can have access to a serious range of affiliate products not available to the public.
The forum is a paid membership forum and is invitation only. Anyone wanting to join the forum and take their Marketing to a new level goes onto to a waiting list until an opportunity to join becomes available. It is worth getting yourself on the waiting list but in the meantime you can check out the main blog and grab some great content.
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While working on setting up this website, I stumbled across this great WordPress theme that I found which is really very flexible and is FREE. The theme is called Semiologic and I am using this theme on this website. What I love about it is that you can change the colour using skins which are located in the appearance section of the semiologic once you download the theme to WordPress. You can also change the number of columns which is something many wordpress themes won’t let you do.
You can also get your own headers to put onto the theme if you want to (instructions on how to do this are on the website). I haven’t bothered to create a header and upload it for this particular website but it seems simple enough. If you aren’t an expert at creating headers, you can either the leave the site as is like I have done or pay someone to create a header for you. The good thing is that at least you have the option of putting your own branded header on there. This feature might come in handy later on.
As you get good at using this theme, there is an option to buy the Pro version which actually has sales letter templates as well!!! Quite handy if you are into affiliate marketing or are creating your own product to sell. However, the free version is very good and a lot more flexible than most of the themes I have used so would be quite fine to use and worth getting a feel for and playing around with. I have spent many hours trying and testing out lots of WordPress themes and I can honestly say that there aren’t many that are flexible as this. The only other theme that I have found that is as flexible is the Thesis theme and I have used this to create all my other websites.
(Note: The above link to Thesis is a sponsored advertisement. The owner of this website uses Thesis and also Semiologic and thoroughly recommends both of these products).
Filed under Website Creation, Website Design, Wordpress by on Nov 28th, 2009. Comment.
Our November Melbourne Warpies Group focused on how to build a website using WordPress. People of varying levels of experience sat around and learnt how to build a website. In attendance were the two Rogers, Florise, Lorraine, Carol, Ray, Simon, Phil, Adam, Conrad, Eric, Yilmaz, Harry and Domenique. Over the course of the afternoon we covered WordPress. Why WordPress? Because WordPress is:
- Free
- Loved by search engines so you are more likely to get traffic to your site
- Easy to install – you really don’t need to know html or css
- You only need to know how to copy and paste,
- Customizable – there are hundreds of themes so you can change the look of your site in minutes,
- Fully functional – there are hundreds of plug-ins which enhance the functionality of your site
- Inexpensive to host – you only need to pay for web-hosting which could cost you as little as $6.95 per month
Key topics included:
- The difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org
- What to look for in a hosting account if choosing the self managed WordPress.org option
- How to install WordPress from your hosting account using Simple Scripts or Fantastico
- How to use the settings section of WordPress to optimise your website so search engines can find it
- How to install and change themes so your website looks the way you want
- What are widgets
- What are plugins and a few critical plugins
- How to customise your sidebar using widgets and plugins
- How to create a static page versus a blog page
- How to add links to your text
- How to change the colours of your text
- How to add images, video and audio
Future blog posts will include aspects of what was covered in this meeting.
Filed under Website Creation, Website Design, Wordpress by on Nov 22nd, 2009. 1 Comment.
