White space and wordpress
Usually the wordpress editor will strip out any white space formed by just adding enter or using <br>.
To leave a few lines try this
<div style=”padding-bottom: 6em;”>TEXT HERE.</div>
Adding a forum
Brilliant youtube video explaining exactly how install a forum using phpBB. phpBB is free!
Giving WordPress Its Own Directory
When building a website I will often work on it in seperate folder
eg www.buildyourwebsite.co.nz/test
No one will know it is there if you turn off the “Blog Visibility” in the privacy settings. When the website is ready to launch I use this article to move it to the site root.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
Adding Google Analytics Code to your website
As well as the wordpress stats plugin, I use Google Analytics for getting statistics for a website.
In order to validate your website you need to add some code:
Go to Appearance then (Theme) Editor and find the header.php or footer.php file (I used the footer).
Then paste your code above the < / body > code
Update that theme file
A links Template page for wordpress
Instructions http://www.bloggingtips.com/2007/03/13/creating-a-links-page-in-wordpress/
but I needed this page also
http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates
but I am not a coder as such.
The result
http://www.afterlife.co.nz/free-resources/other-links-of-interest/
I included all the content code because then I can introduce the page or write other text and it will be included.
Finding Your Website – Challenges for 2010
SEO Challenges for 2010 with Amanda Watlington . Dr. Ralph F. Wilson , Web Marketing Today
Amanda makes three main points
1.The time it takes your website to load is important. Fancy webpages that take a long time to come to download are not good as far as Google is concerned
2. Make sure you have claimed “your push pins” with google maps. Google Local Business Center.
3. Getting people to find your website is about more than being No 1 with a keyword.
I want to focus on no. 2: claim your push pin.
If you have not added your business to Google maps , make a commitment to do this! In 1/2 hour you will be able to put your address, phone number and perhaps a photo of your business or you. Then make another time to add some more content. The secret is to get started today! Baby steps, one at a time and soon you will be running with your web marketing. Watch the video below to help you.
Here’s the link again Google Local Business Center
Another job for this month is to add your business to www.finda.co.nz
Building Thumbnail Images of screenshots
Adding thumbnails can make data presentation more attractive to your website visitors. I like to add a thumbnail of the screenshot of a website I am writing about.
www.websnapr offers this as a free service. Just pop in the URL address and click the buttom. I use save image as ( right click).
“websnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. Allow your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.”
Upload the saved image to your wordpress site. Change the link URL to the image website and don’t forget to check the target button on the bottom of the advanced image options so the website opens on a new page.
How to customise a header
Several themes in wordpress allow you to customise the header ( the picture at the top of the website)
Video below
Writing Footnotes
In the html section you write
<a name="id1" href="#ftn.id1">[1]</a>
This will display as footnote
and then at the end where the footnote goes
<a name="ftn.id1" href="#id1">[1]</a>
[1] footnote