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Day 3: The Basics: Your First Page
If the post is the fresh and dynamic content, the page is the foundation and static portion of your site. Pages inform and typically or more general than posts. Typical pages are titled About, Resources, Services, Portfolio, and Contact Us. Reason You don’t always want your content updated in a “tumblog” fashion. Pages allow for…
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Day 2: The Basics: Your First Post
We all want a website for different reasons: blogging, content management, display our portfolio, put a professional foot forward, etc. Here is how to create your first post. Reason More and more, blogs and new posts are becoming a central way to update your audience and keep your website fresh with content. Fresh content is…
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Day 1: The Basics: General Settings and Permalinks in WordPress
“The beginning is always today.” ― Mary Shelley Getting Started Off Right This assumes that you have installed your WordPress software on your self-hosted website. You can also use these tutorials on your WordPress.com account, though some of the functions will be a little different. If you need help installing the WP software on your…
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21 Days to WordPress Proficiency: An Introduction
What is Your Situation? Do you have a WordPress based website but you feel like you don’t know where to begin? 21 Days to WordPress Proficiency will take you from the initial install of your site to installing plugins, do basic customizations in HTML and CSS, and, most importantly, allow you to be a self-educating…
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How to Increase Your Revenue by 30% (Witout Raising Your Rates)
I just finished a couple of projects for clients. This is always a good feeling. One of my strengths is “Acheiver”, which means I love (a-hem, LOVE) to get things done, checked off my list, wrapped up and put away. Normally, I jump right into the next thing without taking time to celebrate. This time,…
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Value Added Service on Projects
In the world of freelancing, I’m finding I need to get projects done as quickly as possible, and with the maximum amount of revenue possible. This is of course depending on the client, what they need, and how much they’ll will to pay for the project they need done. Learning how to price your services…
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Finding (and Getting) Freelance Work
Taking the Freelance Plunge “There’s nothing quite like asking someone to pay you for something you’re not quite sure you can do.” -Me. One of the most !important and delicate times for a business is the validation phase: do people want to and will they give you money? You’ve built your product, or practiced your…
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Code Academy: PHP
Like a peaceful meadow after a trek through dense jungle, or the eye of a hurricane, PHP was a welcome relief, a lot more intuitive, and pretty fun. The Basics on PHP PHP is a server side language, and is the “P” in the LAMP environments that run a good deal of the internet (not…
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Code Academy: JQuery and JavaScript
If the Web Fundamentals Course was like eating a tasty peanut butter and cholocate pie, jQuery (jQ) and JavaScript (JS) we’re like eating a bitttersweet pie and a pebble pie, respectively. jQuery… Not as easy to pick up as HTML and CSS, but not too bad either. What is jQ? Officially, it’s a javascript library.
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First Course in Code Academy: HTML/CSS
Finding My NEW Drug of Choice After my first experience with CodeAcademy (CA), I knew that I was hooked. Literally, addicted. I’m a learner AND an achiever, and so the format of CodeAcademy was the perfect way for me to begin learning HTML and CSS. Yes, correctly completing a lesson, getting a green check and…