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Custom Genesis WordPress Website for Coaching Services
A recently completed Genesis WordPress website design and development project was for The Vitality Within, a small business in Phoenix that provides life and relationship coaching services. The Vitality Within specializes in helping people move forward in their lives and relationships. We started with a dark website background, the client’s existing, bright gold logo, and…
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Open Genesis Primary and Secondary Navigation with a Single Responsive Menu Icon
Genesis responsive menus (updated summer 2014) vary slightly from theme to theme, but most add a separate responsive icon into each navigation menu at smaller screen sizes. This keeps each navigation menu opening and closing independently. But you may want to have only one responsive menu icon that opens and closes both the primary and…
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Add Buttons to Genesis Responsive Menu Icon and Indicators
The responsive menus in Genesis themes were updated (summer 2014) and are now easier to use on mobile devices, especially if there are a large number of menu items in the drop downs. The look of the Genesis responsive menu is nice and clean, but some people are not sure where to click when they…
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How to Add Arrow Indicators to Genesis Navigation Menus
You can add arrow indicators to your navigation menu drop downs in your Genesis theme with just a little bit of CSS. This will help your website visitors to see at a glance which menu items have more items hidden below them. This tutorial works for all Genesis themes. If your theme already uses icons,…
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Add Dashicons to Your WordPress Post
You can add a font icon and a border to your WordPress website pages or posts or widgets. This tutorial shows you how use dashicons in a border on your posts. Many themes now have dashicons enqueued in the theme functions.php, but if yours doesn’t, you can read more about how to add dashicons to…
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Logins, Passwords and Credentials for Your Small Business Website
Your small business website has many credentials — logins and passwords — for all the services used to create your website. Some you will set up; some your website designer or developer will set up. But you, as the business owner, need access to all of them; it is your business, after all. You may…
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Add An Image to WordPress Category Archive Description
Most WordPress themes now add category descriptions to the category archive pages, if you fill in the Category Name and Description fields. This tutorial shows you how to add images and other HTML to category archive descriptions for the Twenty Fourteen theme and for Genesis child themes, because it’s a bit different.
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Add HTML – Images and Links – to Text Widgets Without a Plugin
WordPress posts and pages use the TinyMCE editor, so you don’t have to write HTML in your posts and pages, unless, of course, you want to. But the Text Widget is still, well, text. This tutorial will show you how to use the WordPress WYSIWYG editor from a Page to add HTML to a Text…
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Remove Category Base from WordPress Permalinks
WordPress adds a base of /category/ to the all the category archive permalinks. This means that your category links look like this:http://example.org/category/uncategorized/ For the most part, that’s a good thing. If a category and post or page have the same slug, they won’t interfere with each other. But sometimes you need something else, so this…
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Working With WordPress Native Galleries
Did you know that you can create a WordPress gallery in one post by referencing a gallery from another post or page? Well, you can. This tutorial shows you how to use a gallery from one page in a second post, and also has some tips for working with WordPress galleries. To get the most…
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Owning a Business Website is Like Owning a House
You have a great idea for an online business. Or you decide you need a website for your business. But where do you start? What do you do? There are many pieces that go into creating and running a business website. It’s a fairly simple process for a small business website or blog that is…
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How to Add a Three Column Grid to a Page
Updated on December 21, 2018 There are many WordPress themes that use three (or more) widgets or widget areas across the home page, for blog posts, featured pages, or for a portfolio. These are generally styled by the theme. But what if you want to add three sections across to a regular page or post,…
Meet Marcy
Amethyst Website Design is a small business owned by Marcy Díaz. I help people, like you, with your website by creating an affordable WordPress website using Genesis themes to fit your business and budget. I especially love working with new and small business owners, and can help you with the online part of your business.
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Email: Contact Marcy
Phone: 602.759.0501
PO Box 94782
Phoenix AZ 85070
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