WordPress Video Tutorial – Custom Menus, Part II

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In Part I of this series I showed you how you can easily create custom menus for your WordPress website (version 3.0 or greater). You can see that video here. In this followup video I'll expand on that to show you how you can... remove menu items have a link to an external site open in a new window/tab rename menu items without affecting the page titles make a menu item un-clickable in case … [Read more...]

Video Tutorial: Creating Custom Menus in WordPress (3.0 or greater)

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Are you new to WordPress? Or maybe you've just never really got a handle on creating menus with WordPress. Well, ever since the awesome version, 3.0 hit the streets, creating menus in WordPress has been VERY cool and easy. In this screencast tutorial I show you how to create custom menus in WordPress (3.0 or greater). … [Read more...]

WordPress Screencast – How to Add Pages and Menus to Your WordPress Site

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This screencast shows you how you can create pages in a WordPress site. It also shows you how you can create custom menus and add your pages to them, as well as creating dropdown menu items. You're probably going to want to view it in full screen mode so you can actually see what I'm doing. Hope this helps! … [Read more...]

Al Phillips, Las Vegas, New Site Launch!

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I've converted another one of my clients over from the darkside (Joomla) to the light (WordPress)! Now I'm not slamming Joomla. Actually I'm the one that set this client up on Joomla about 4 years ago. I know.... booooo,  hissssss! Right? At that time I still looked at WordPress as just blogging software. No more, no less.   WordPress = CMS WordPress, over the past few years, has really … [Read more...]

What’s Your Vision? Does Your Web Presence Reflect That?

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Are you passionate about what you do? Do you truly know that what you have to offer your client's makes a difference and provides definite value? When you're talking to someone about what you do, are you excited? Do you love talking about every detail, and why it's so cool? If the answer is yes, then are you using the online tools available to let people know the level of your conviction? Can … [Read more...]

Using WordPress Plugins to Automatically Post to Facebook & Twitter

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In using social media/networking, you don't want to spend your whole day on Facebook or Twitter, right? Plugins to Do Your Work For You! There are plugins you can use with WordPress so that, when you publish a new blog post it automatically goes to your Facebook or Twitter account. That way you do something on your website and your social media presence is updated automatically!s So … [Read more...]

WordPress 3.3 – Click the Button and Upgrade Now!

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Logged on to ImagePerceptions.com this morning and was greeted with the announcement of the release of WordPress 3.3 (named, Sonny - in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt). As always, the message suggested I click to update now. And, as I always do, I clicked to do the automatic update. (I love how easy WordPress makes my life!) I had heard rumors of some of the upcoming … [Read more...]

WordPress Screencast – Adding a Photo to a Page or Blog Post

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I know this seems pretty simple, but this is probably one of the most frequently asked questions I get from new WordPress users. Hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions. … [Read more...]

Still Don’t Get Blogging? How About Content Marketing?

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For many of my clients, particularly those above the age of 40, they haven't been blogging, they don't get blogging, and they don't understand how blogging is so important to business. To them, the term blogging itself conjures up images of someone leaning back on their couch, drinking their mocha-china-frappa-latte, typing about what they did today, what their friends said about their other … [Read more...]

Great Way to Keep Visitors on Your Website Longer

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As we all know, the longer people stay on your website, the better. It means they are finding a reason to stay. The longer they stay, the more likely they are to purchase your products purchase your services bookmark your site tell others about it return again later to read more (or watch more, if you're doing video) of what you have to say If they just hit a couple pages then … [Read more...]