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WordPress Tutorials

Add a MailChimp Signup Form to Your WordPress Website without a Plugin

It’s easy to add a MailChimp Signup form to your WordPress blog or website to collect names for your email list without using a plugin. For a lot of themes, the form will just blend in with your theme. Look at how the form will look in the default WordPress themes – Twenty Twelve, Twenty…
Genesis Tutorials

Use WordPress Dashicons to Add Font Icons to Your Genesis Theme

Have you seen the new WordPress Twenty Fourteen theme with the little font icons in the post or entry meta? You know, the ones next to the post date, and post author and tags? You can add these using icon fonts. There are many different icon fonts and resources for them and tutorials to use…
Small Business

How to Write An About Page for Your Small Business Website

Updated: 02/08/18 Your About page is probably one of the most important and most viewed pages on your small business website. And yet many bloggers and business owners don’t have one. That’s understandable because it can be one of the most difficult pages to write. You see the page as “about you”; you’re putting yourself…
WordPress Tutorials

Remove Border on WordPress Gallery Images

WordPress automatically adds a border around all gallery images with inline styles on the page from the gallery shortcode. There are a number of ways to remove the borders, if you decide you want a more subtle look for your website galleries. This tutorial shows you how to remove the borders using CSS for the…
Website Design

Holiday Resources for Your Small Business 2013

It’s the holiday season, and many small businesses do something special for their clients, customers, marketing, or websites to mark the season. So today I’m sharing some holiday resources to help you with images, fonts, messages, and icons for your small business cards, promotions, and websites, and a falling snow plugin for your website. Holiday…
Genesis Tutorials

Genesis Full Height Sidebar with Header above Content

A recent project required duplicating an old website built using tables, but using WordPress. Since I use the Genesis framework for WordPress websites as often as possible, I thought my experience would make a great Genesis theme tutorial. The old website was flush left in the browser window. It had a full height sidebar with…
Website Design

Finds for Your Website – November 5 2013

This week there are some great finds for your website, including Nice Things Icon Set (actually images) from Smashing Magazine, Permian font family from Permian Typeface, available at FontSquirrel, and the Soliloquy Lite slider WordPress plugin from Thomas Griffin. Nice Things Icon Set Smashing Magazine just released a set of 128 icons by Chris Behr,…
WordPress Tutorials

How to Get Larger Images in a WordPress Gallery

If your website uses WordPress image galleries, you may want to show images at a size larger than thumbnails in the gallery because the default size is rather small. There are several methods to get larger images in your WordPress galleries. Contents All About – All About WordPress Media Settings and Gallery Defaults Method 1…
Small Business

Finds for Your Business Blog – October 22 2013

If you’re trying to blog oftener for your small business, here is some help and inspiration. “Blogging More Regularly” You know you should blog more for your business, but it’s easy to let it slide, and soon it’s been weeks or even months since you last blogged. Chris Lema has a great blog to follow…
Genesis Tutorials

Genesis Featured Posts Widget for Recent Posts with Images

The default WordPress Recent Posts widget just creates a list of your most recent posts. While there are plugins that you can add that will allow you use images for recent posts, you won’t need them, if you use the Genesis Framework by StudioPress. It comes with the Genesis – Featured Posts widget that can…
Small Business

Finds for Your Website – October 8 2013

Here are some more finds to help with your small business and your website. 50 Call-to-Action Templates Hubspot has a set of 50 Calls-To-Action Templates to help you create buttons and graphics for your small business website and marketing materials. All the buttons and graphics can be edited easily in Power Point, and they’ve included step-by-step…
Genesis Tutorials

Add Metro or Flat Social Media Icons to Your Website

Would you like to create metro or flat social media follow icons in the official colors for your WordPress website or blog? Well, you can! You can use the Simple Social Icons plugin by Natan Rice and StudioPress for this. While there are many plugins and icon sets to add social media follow icons, this…