Posted by DianeStafford on February 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
New Premium WP Theme Genesis – Website Design Theme Framework
The new premium wordpress theme has been launched by StudioPress, which offers a “Theme Framework” approach to developing your website or blog. The ‘Theme Framework” of genesis is in simple terms, the ‘engine’ behind your website, or as per the website designers:
“In short, a theme framework is a robust WordPress theme that can be utilized out of the box as is, but also easily extended with child themes and hooks. Not only do they provide a number of enhancements above a typical WordPress... [Continue Reading]
Posted by DianeStafford on January 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Chester Women in Business can get motivated in 2010 by taking action steps, one small step forward at a time if necessary, towards their individual small business goals.
Are you a Chester Woman in Business and want to get motivated this year?
A good friend and business colleague of mine, Nikki, has written an article on how to Get Motivated in 2010, which I read today. She writes in her entertainingly unique style, she doesn’t hold back or spare your sensitivities. She tells it like it is!
And so it is for many women in business!
The sub heading in her article that grabbed my attention... [Continue Reading]
Posted by web design admin on January 15, 2010 · 1 Comment
Arts and Crafts website design makeover presents a crisp clean look for the Art Hobby Craft Creative Network members to display their arts and crafts work.
For this mini-makeover, Diane wanted to move away from the previous website design theme as it was rather patterned. Although in a tasteful colour, there were numerous colour clashes going on, which was a distraction for the viewer.
Plus, as the Arts and Crafts Members are a very colourful group of creatives themselves, their artisan craft items weren’t being displayed at their best.
With just a few simple changes we have given Art... [Continue Reading]
Posted by web design admin on January 14, 2010 · Leave a Comment
This advanced analytics tool is influencing website design decision makers. Although it’s for the serious website design decision maker, web developer or web design agency, we thought this would be of interest to you small business website owners and bloggers too (check out the free, less advanced option below).
Who knows when you’ll be in a position to utilize this analytics tool for benefits gained.
Do you know what users are doing on your web pages?
Watch the video which explains the whole concept :
By tracking visitor movements, and analysing the data, you’ll discover... [Continue Reading]
Posted by DianeStafford on January 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
As you may know, we operate our free membership site through the fantastic wordpress membership site plugin, which at first appeared unaffected by the whole upgrade process. That was until we emailed our beta members, which never got sent. Although the 3 bug fix we added unblocked that process, it meant that we then bombarded their inboxes as the email queue released itself with a vengeance! Again, sorry about that folks. Thankfully it was happy holiday wishes, so members appeared far from distraught at receiving too many best wishes.
Well that certainly made for an interesting exercise over... [Continue Reading]
Posted by web design admin on December 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Wordpress has been upgraded to 2.9 and there are some bugs and issues which we are testing here right now.
We have noted an issue with our email to members functionality and are unable to email directly via our members plugin.
Issues noted:
post tags not functioning – “choose from the most used tags in Post Tags”
although – are able to “add new tag”
preview post option not functioning
Image upload from computer not working – reports an http error
Image from library not working – although the uploads folder exists, and the images exist... [Continue Reading]
Posted by DianeStafford on December 15, 2009 · 2 Comments
If you’re thinking of, or are already using, a brand name and / or domain name, which doesn’t actually describe what your business does, then you’ll certainly need to add a marketing plan and a marketing budget into your overall business strategy.
Just like those ‘Big Boy Brand Names’, you’ll want to ensure that people will over time, become more familiar with, and be consistently exposed to, your brand name and your domain name, your website address.
Let’s expand on what you looked at in your members white paper “Brand Name Pre Domain Name Purchase“ ….
Domain... [Continue Reading]
Posted by web design admin on November 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
In Our Niche Marketing Articles Series:
Cold porcelain specialist, Katy Buck has used her own hand made cold porcelain recipe for some years now to create some amazing Wedding Cake Topper Decorations, humorous characters, like, Fred there on the ecover of her new ebook, and some of the most beautiful orchids you could wish to see.
Although Katy has been in the arts and crafts niche for some time, she has actually specialized within a sub niche by combining her passion for flowers, especially orchids, and her creative passion for making things with cold porcelain and teaching others how to master... [Continue Reading]
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