Thoughts
Use BlueHost Hosting
promoterAug 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:
Use Google Fonts
These afr good substitutes for Georgia, Tahoma, the same old thing. Ig you want to get fancy, now you can.
Taken for a Ride
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!
Why Can’t I Easily Reposition Elements, Change Colors, Fonts, Spacing?
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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