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Use BlueHost Hosting

Aug 28, 2012Clients Only, Thoughts

HostGator and BlueHost are the main hosting solutions I recommend.

They both feature cPanel, 24/7 instant support messaging, have a record of almost NO downtime, are inexpensive and easy to set up. They have tons of built-in features like Fantastico and SimpleScripts.

Here’s a quick video about BlueHost and its integration with WordPress:

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Layouts

Aug 25, 2012Clients Only, Thoughts

Here are some classic web page layouts

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Use Google Fonts

Nov 04, 2011Thoughts

These afr good substitutes  for Georgia, Tahoma, the same old thing.  Ig you want to get fancy, now you can.

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Taken for a Ride

Nov 04, 2011Thoughts

I keep finding clients who have been taken. Taken for a ride by “web designers” who muck everything up, and invariably overcharge.  I find myself spending more and more time undoing the bad to make it right.  Example:  disabling CMS of WP by hand-coding everything!  Widgets, I find a PHP tool; a menu hard-coded.  And these are readily availabe in the Twenty Ten default theme which he is, in fact, using.  oops, he changed the theme name to own: “Drew.”  What ego!  The dynamic aspects are gone.  The user interface is gone!  The worse the damage, the more they charge.  Background images in widgets — can’t grow or shrink!

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Why Can’t I Easily Reposition Elements, Change Colors, Fonts, Spacing?

Nov 04, 2011Thoughts

The answer is CSS.

Another solution is to use a WordPress “Framework” type of theme that allows control over all these details.  But if you don’t have a detailed theme like this, you will have to learn some CSS.  You know what CSS is:  you’ve seen it in the style sheets.

It may be written in a list like this:

blockquote {

background: #f7f7f7;
border-top: 1px solid #cccccc;
border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;
padding: 5px 15px;
margin: 6px 0;
font-size: 1.2em;
letter-spacing: 0.1px;
color: #0033cc;

}

or in a line, like this:

blockquote {background: #f7f7f7; border-top: 1px solid #cccccc; border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc; padding: 5px 15px; margin: 6px 0; font-size: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0.1px; color: #0033cc;}

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