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Create a Custom Category Page

WordPress is a powerful tool to build a website. It makes it very easy for website owners to create the perfect page template for different sections of our site.

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First Look at WordPress 3.5

In less than 8 minutes, you can watch and learn about some of the new changes that you will see with the next major release, which is due out any day now.

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Install a Premium WordPress Theme

I get a lot of questions on how to install a premium WordPress theme that isn’t in the WordPress repository. They themes can be found many place but today, I want to show you how to add a theme that’s purchased at ThemeForest.net. Even if you’ve never purchased a theme from ThemeForest, this process is […]

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Run WordPress Locally on Your Mac

As I’m building a website for a customer, I want to develop their site as quickly and efficiently as I can, because the faster I complete it, the faster I can get to the next paying project. I have found that if I develop a website locally on my mac, it saves me a ton […]

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Create an HTML Email Signature (with images and colors)

Probably the most frequent question I get via emails is “How do you create a signature like yours?” Or put another way, “How can I create an HTML email signature for my emails?” I never really know how to respond to those messages as it’s significantly tricky to describe, because there are so many different […]

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Are you still using GoDaddy?

Earlier this week, we saw a huge melt down of domain registrar GoDaddy. If you are using GoDaddy for hosting, email or DNS services, basically everything stopped working. Now it’s no secret that I’m not a fan of GoDaddy. In several past podcasts, I’ve talked about my dislike, especially 011 – Why I Can’t Stand […]

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New Video Intro

When building your business, I feel that branding is a huge piece thing to keep everything consistent. Recently, I’ve been trying to create more videos, but I’ve had a hard time actually doing so because I wanted a really cool intro clip that would set up my video. I’ve looked around a premium templates that […]

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Use Custom Fonts with WordPress

One of the “features” of WordPress that I don’t like is how hard it is to add different fonts to your theme. For the most part, making changes in WordPress is a easy as updating a Google Doc online; except for changing fonts. Yes, you can argue that you can use the drop down menu […]

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