• May.
  • 30.
  • 2009

How To Add Introductory Paragraph Text To The Front Page Of The WP-Ecommerce Shop

And have it show only on the front page of the shop? A client of mine asked if I could add an introductory/greeting kind of message to show to people looking at the front page of his online store. Sure thing, I said and I put it right in and went on my way thinking that was that. Later I …
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2,137 views Posted in Technical Blog, WP Ecommerce | Tagged , | 1 Comment
  • May.
  • 29.
  • 2009

WordPress As A CMS: Getting Started

So you’ve already chosen WordPress or are seriously considering it. Maybe you’ve even already done the famous 5 minute WordPress installation. Maybe you’ve already chosen one of the free themes or enlisted some paid help getting one made just for you? Whatever the case, you should be very pleased with yourself to have gotten this far and I’ll bet you’re super jazzed to have your own website that uses your own domain name.

Trouble is, now what? How to make sense of the Dashboard? What does what? What do all these crazy terms mean? You’re scared to touch anything! Some settings are self explanatory but the only way to get comfortable is to jump in and start looking and reading. If you don’t think its a good idea to change a setting, don’t. But don’t be afraid to at least log in and look at the pages – because just looking does no harm.
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1,853 views Posted in WordPress, WordPress As A CMS | Tagged , | 1 Comment
  • May.
  • 25.
  • 2009

I Charge For My Time,Design Work & Support (Not For WordPress)

Long before I understood GPL & before WordPress decided to yank over 200 non GPL-compatible themes from its Theme Viewer, I struggled with the seeming hypocrisy of charging $ for a theme when what you were really selling was WordPress, itself. Lets get real. Nothing I design to be used with WordPress could be more than static html pages without …
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1,994 views Posted in Technical Blog, WordPress | Tagged , , | 1 Comment
  • May.
  • 22.
  • 2009

Design Fail

I might be many things but I am not a mind reader. But for the last week I have been attempting to do just that for one person who contacted me through my website about help with their online shop. At first I thought it was going to be a matter of offering a little advice via email. When their …
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