Learn how to set up a profitable on line store without spending one single cent on software. This one hour video series takes you by the hand and shows you how step by step.
Owning your own e-commerce store can be a very lucrative venture. You can do that too – really. Just like any other business venture all you need is a good product and people visiting your store. Since your store will be on line it can basically run itself other than the shipping aspect if you are selling physical products.
There is another kind of store you can build that does run on autopilot. You don’t have to stock it, you don’t have to ship anything, and the payments are all handled automatically. This type of store deals with digital down loadable goods.
These videos will show you how to set up your store using free software that handles the entire process no matter what type of store you want to open. If you are running a physical goods store all you have to do is ship the products. If you are going to run a digital download store it is all automatic after you set it up.
This one hour video series will take you step by step through the process of installing the software and setting up your store. In our example we will show you how to set up a store for digitally down loadable goods. The process is virtually the same as setting up a store for physical goods with a couple of exceptions that we talk about in the video series.
Just think – you could have your own store set up and running TODAY just by following the instructions on these videos.
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WordPress is one of the most popular blogging and content management web templating platformsâ€â€ÂÂit easily allows you and your business to make a statement about yourself and what you do. WordPress is also quite cost-effective, as it’s free for just about anyone to use.
WordPress is colorful and flexible, and includes a variety of themes, templates, and plug-ins for you to explore and use. Beginning WordPress 3 aims to address these for the beginner who wants to start using and developing with WordPress.
- This book is one of the first on the latest WordPress 3.0 engine.
- With this book, you’ll learn about blogging, developing a blog, creating newsletters/papers, and managing/publishing this popular CMS.
- The author, Stephanie Leary, brings you her expertise as a professional trainer and educator who has used WordPress extensively in education and more.
What you’ll learn
- How to get started and import content for use in WordPress
- How to change what appears on a home page, blog post, and more
- How to handle media uploads, audio/video players, and podcasting
- How to create forms, form plug-ins and more
- How to publish, migrate, and move your WordPress sites
Who this book is for
This book is for first-time users, designers, and developers of online content, blogs, and content management systems.
About the Author
Stephanie Leary has been working with WordPress since 2004. She has presented an introduction to WordPress at the HighEdWeb conference for the last three years, and will teach a half-day workshop on using WordPress as a CMS at this year’s conference in early October.
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This book will take you through the ins and outs of creating sophisticated professional themes for the WordPress personal publishing platform. It will walk you through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom WordPress theme. From development tools and setting up your WordPress sandbox, through design tips and suggestions, to setting up your theme’s template structure, coding markup, testing and debugging, to taking it live it reviews the best practices. The last three chapters are dedicated to additional tips, tricks and various cookbook recipes for adding popular site enhancements to your WordPress theme designs using third-party plugins.
Whether you’re working with a pre-existing theme or creating a new one from the ground up, WordPress Theme Design will give you the know-how to understand how themes work within the WordPress blog system, enabling you to take full control over your site’s design and branding.
What you will learn from this book?
- Set up a basic workflow and development environment for WordPress theme design
- Create detailed designs and code them up
- Enhance your sites by choosing the right color schemes and graphics
- Debug and validate your theme using W3C’s XHTML and CSS validation tools
- Customize and tweak your theme’s layout
- Set up dynamic drop-down menus, AJAX/dynamic and interactive forms
- Download and install useful plug-ins and widgetize your theme
- Improve post and page content using jQuery and ThickBox
- Add interactivity to your themes using Flash
- Includes a reference guide to WordPress 2.0’s template hierarchy, markup, styles and template tags, as well as include and loop functions
Approach
Theme design can be approached from two angles. The first is simplicity; sometimes it suits the client and/or the site to go as bare-bones as possible. In that case, it’s quick and easy to take a very basic, pre-made theme and modify it.
The second is “Unique and Beautiful”. Occasionally, the site’s theme needs to be created from scratch so that everything displayed caters to the specific kind of content the site offers. This book is going to take you through the Unique and Beautiful route with the idea that once you know how to create a theme from scratch, you’ll be more apt at understanding what to look for in other WordPress themes.
Who this book is written for?
This book can be used by WordPress users or visual designers (with no server-side scripting or programming experience) who are used to working with the common industry-standard tools like PhotoShop and Dreamweaver or other popular graphic, HTML, and text editors.
Regardless of your web development skill-set or level, you’ll be walked through the clear, step-by-step instructions, but familiarity with a broad range of web development skills and WordPress know-how will allow you to gain maximum benefit from this book.
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This book will take you beyond the basics of WordPress, helping you take full advantage of its rich and powerful features to transform your basic blog into a more advanced and professional blog as quickly and painlessly as possible. You will learn everything you need to know to extend and grow your business blog. You will learn to mange the content including images and videos, which will make your blog more appealing. You’ll also learn how to market and measure the success of your blog using Google web applications and other popular tools. So, if want to transform your business blog to give a kick start to your business this book is for you.
This book deals with using WordPress and third-party tools to manage and optimize your blog, focusing on the business aspects of blogging. It is not an introduction to WordPress and does not cover the basics such as installation or how to post. Most readers will already have an established WordPress blog or will at least be in the advanced stages of planning one.
What you will learn from this book?
- Develop a `blogging business plan’: clarify your blogging goals and sketch out a process for achieving them in WordPress
- Build a custom theme: so that the look of your blog immediately communicates your brand to visitors
- Engage with the blogosphere: create beneficial relationships with other bloggers, making the most of each other’s traffic and customers
- Optimize your site for search: incorporate good SEO practices into your blog posting and planning
- Use social media marketing such as Digg, Reddit, Facebook, and Del.icio.us to drive traffic to your blog
- Monitor visitors and analyze their activity using WordPress.com stats, Feedburner for your RSS feeds, and Google Analytics
- Manage adverts and implement revenue-generating features using Google AdSense with the Adsense Manager plugin
- Incorporate multimedia on your blog, including video and image galleries
Approach
This is a practical, hands-on book based around a fictitious case study blog, which you will build on a development server using WordPress. The case study grows chapter by chapter, from installing your local development server, right up to the finished blog.
The book starts by looking at the important features that make a successful business blog: adding value to your products and services, providing proper customer service and support, driving traffic to your website, and so on. It then shows how to implement these features in WordPress. It provides clear instructions and detailed screenshots, so you can see exactly what to do at each step of the build. You will install and configure a selection of WordPress plug-ins to improve the functionality of the case-study blog.
When you have completed the case study, you will have the knowledge and confidence to apply all the techniques you have learned to your own WordPress business blog.
Who this book is written for?
This book is for anybody running or starting a business blog using WordPress. Whether you plan to use your blog for PR and marketing, or want to profit directly from blogging, this book offers you everything you need.
As we want to get into the specifics of business blogging as quickly as possible, we don’t cover the WordPress basics. So it’s best to have some experience with WordPress before you start with this book.
The book mainly focuses on a self-hosted WordPress installation, but most of the advice also applies to blogs hosted on WordPress.com.
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Whether you’re promoting your business or writing about your travel adventures, Head First WordPress will teach you not only how to make your blog look unique and attention-grabbing, but also how to take advantage of WordPress platform’s more complex features to make your website work well, too.
You’ll learn how to move beyond the standard WordPress look and feel by customizing your blog with your own URL, templates, plugin functionality, and more. As you learn, you’ll be working with real WordPress files: The book’s website provides pre-fab WordPress themes to download and work with as you follow along with the text.
- Get your site up and running by setting up a MySQL database and creating configuration files
- Work with the WordPress platform to create posts and pages, learn the difference between tags and categories, edit content, moderate comments, and manage spam
- Explore how to extend WordPress with plugins and templates
- Convert custom designs (in HTML and CSS) into functional themes and use them in WordPress
We think your time is too valuable to waste struggling with new concepts. Using the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory to craft a multi-sensory learning experience, Head First WordPress uses a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works, not a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep.
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