Web Site 101
The MooreWay Solutions Website 101 Training will help you to get your site started and guide you through the first phase of getting your message out to the world.
It includes the following:
Why and how to self host your own website.
What software we have found helpful for this.
How to set up a basic business card site, that will allow you to start sharing your message through a blog.
Help with customizing the theme your site.
Help with writing your about and sales pages.
help you create email addresses like yourname@yourdomain.com
Our Website 102 training will help you take the site you developed in the 101 class to the next level by:
showing you how to gather contact information of those who visit your site.
create a Facebook fan page for your site.
show you how to put digital and non digital product for sale on your site.
Website 103 training will then help you to share your site further on the internet
How to Add and Artisteer Theme file to wordpress
I recently had a friend ask me how to add an Artisteer file to WordPress, so I decided to make a quick tutorial for them.
First when you have completed your design in Artisteer you will need to save the file, and then export the file so it can be uploaded to WordPress.
The next step is to name the file and select the .zip file option
once you have exported your file you will then need to log into WordPress and select the apperence tab in dashboard left side bar. Next select install themes and upload. Then you can choose the .zip theme file you want to upload and select install now.
Once the theme has been uploaded you can choose to activate it so it becomes your sites active theme.
You can then visit your site and see the changes. With some Browsers it will be necessary to refresh the page, before the theme changes will have taken effect.
Pixlr.com A Great Free Photo Editor
Recently I was introduced to a great free photo editor that makes tasks like re sizing and croping photos for your blog a breeze.
It can be found at Pixlr.com
Below is a quick guide to how to get started with it. The red ellipses indicate where to click on the pages.
First step is to go to Pixlr Editor choice from the top menu.
Next you open an image from your computer using “open image from computer” button.
Once you have selected a photo from your computer, there are several things you can do to edit it.
Re sizing a photo
Click on the Image option from the top menu, and select image size from the menu that appears.
This will bring up a box that allows you to enter the width or height you would like the picture to have. I find for my posts on the internet that a width of 380 pixels allows for a good picture size without using up a lot of file space and bandwidth.
You will also notice that there is a check box to “constrain proportions”. Selecting this option makes it so that the picture scales equally. ( in other words you won’t end up with a picture that is out of proportion.
Once you have entered the size you want the picture, and clicked OK, you will notice the picture will get really small on your screen. In order to see it in the new “full Size” you can click on the view menu and then select the actual pixels option, and you can see you picture in full “re sized size”.
You can then save the picture as the new size and upload it to your site to share with others.
I will continue to share more Pixlr.com tips in future posts
