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I started out using Word press about two or maybe three years ago and I will went through some pain because I would always look for some of these free WordPress themes Alice trying to get my WordPress website really call the blog bipolar website to rank on page one of Google for certain keywords and I what I found was that certain themes actually assist with SEO and others impaired SEO.
here’s a little plug for the website called theme Forest, they have a lot of great themes but what I’ve found is the absolute best theme for WordPress is a theme called thesis.
why spend the money to buy a great theme for your website?
the better the theme the more functionality you’ll have as well as the better the structure of the actual website itself. Also the more customization you’ll be a able to do without being a programmer. it is however a good idea to have or to make some friends who do programming. I personally pay a friend and amount to have him on retainer every single month so that I can call them up and bounce a few ideas off of him and asked him questions and have him help me with some basic coding.
Basic coding for WordPress
It’s a good idea to learn some basic coding for WordPress and I’ll probably in the future share some of the coding that I have learned. For now I just want to give you one piece of coding which has really helped me to make my websites look much much much more professional. It is how to embed an image into your widgets and/or your headers and make that image clickable.
A circular that piece of code you’ll see that it says h reference, or href= this means to where the URL is that when someone clicks it that destination will be. Then you’ll see the other piece of code is actually meaning image source and so you plug in the URL they are of your image source which you should load into your media center of WordPress. So once you’ve uploaded the image and word press then you put that URL in between the quotes inside this HTML code.
How to embed a clickable image into your WordPress blog
Now that we’ve covered how to embed an image and your WordPress blog the other thing you’re going to want to know how to do is how to find the exact dimensions of certain spaces in your blog. And when I say blog I really mean website a blog is a website a website is a component of a blog some people want to say blog because they think blog sounds cooler. this term blog really does turn people off or it creates a feeling for most of your average users of not being able to do it. So another huge huge component of my marketing is I use this program called Dragon which allows me to just talk and it writes down everything I’m saying and then it makes blogging way way easier.
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the next thing you need to know how to do is you need to know how to find the dimensions of these spaces a try filling with pictures so what I use is Google Chrome. and if you right-click it will give you some options when you want to do is you’re going to want to click on the part that says inspect element.
once you’ve done that you should get this dock attached to the lower part of your browser. This has a whole lot of stuff in it but the one component that you’re the one be looking at justifying the dimensions of certain parts of your website is going to be the part that looks like a magnifying glass.
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as you can see me image above by clicking on the blue highlighted magnifying glass and then scrolling or rolling over certain parts of my website it will tell me the dimensions now right now showing you the dimensions of the WordPress dashboard but the same dimensions will be shown on the front another website so for example if you want to know the dimensions of a header or of a widget or something along those lines what you want to do is go to the front page of your website click on the inspect element and then just kind of scroll over and roll over certain parts of your website noted he dimensions it’s very very helpful tool for understanding the dimensions of Islam different images and then you can go ahead and create your own custom images.
If you do not have Photoshop that is another big huge amazing wonderful tool that if you don’t have it I highly highly recommended. It will take a little bit of learning how to use this tool though you will not I guarantee you will not, pick it up just by sitting down and thinking that you get hot use this application is a huge application people have said they do not know where the application stops it has that much depth of functionality. But for anyone serious and building a blog or building your brand online or building a website is a absolute must you absolutely must have Photoshop to help make your images and your banners and all that stuff look the right way.
My name is Josh Darville, thank you for stopping by and I look forward to getting to connect with some of you in helping your online endeavors so e-mail your questions to me at Darville J@Gmail.com and again I say be excellent in everything, keep on trying.
