After hearing James B. Allen's Seven Secrets Seminar, I wanted a website that...
- looks great,
- is interactive (Web 2.0),
- is easy to update,
- and soars to the top of Google's pages.
But, when I tried to do what Mr. Allen recommends... I got confused.
Nobody explains
this stuff to non-programmers like me. I spent over a week trying to figure out how to
install and tweak the kind of FREE software he recommends.
Then, I wrote a book to share with you what I'd learned.
What took me over a week to do,
you can accomplish in a few hours...
if you read my book.
You'll learn how to...
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BEFORE LUNCH!
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You can download this book right now
for just $12.
Here's why I wrote this book...
Aisling talks
about this book
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I'm an artist, not a website designer.
But, like everyone else
in business, I need an up-to-date, good looking website.
Using WordPress to maintain
a site had always seemed appealing, but I didn't want a site that looked like a blog.
Then the free magazine-style themes arrived... including Mimbo and Branford Magazine.
Wow! I mean... WOW!
Suddenly, WordPress didn't look like 'just another blog'. I could hardly wait to try it out.
It took me over a week of headaches to figure out how to...
1. Work with WordPress, and then,
2. Get the Branford Magazine theme to look right.
See, I don't really understand computer code. I know just enough HTML to get by.
Sure, the theme looked great... but the 'official' instructions to set it up with my articles, my sidebar,
and my pictures...
Their instructions just confused me.
I nearly gave up.
Finally, I started reading the right forums. I found a (free) sidebar that actually worked. I learned
which free plugins work, and which don't. And,
a little at a time, the site started looking good.
I finally figured out how this works!
Over the next few days, I went from a site that looked like this...
To a site that looks like this...
Even better, I can update this website in less than a third as much time as it used to. That's a huge
improvment!
And, here's the really amazing part:
My site had been buried somewhere on page five at Google, if anyone was searching for
information about the business of art.
Within three days of using WordPress with the Branford Magazine theme,
my site soared to the
third spot on Google's first page, for my keywords.
(I even outranked American Artist magazine, the Getty museum,
and Wikipedia.)
In the month since then, my website has remained at least among the top five. [ screenshot 1 -
screenshot 2]
I did the same thing with two more websites, with similar results. Each time,
I learned more shortcuts. Now, I can customize a WordPress theme--with fresh graphics, a unique sidebar,
and all the plugins--in a little over an hour.
I wrote this book so that you can do the same thing.
The book is just $12.
This 56-page book shares everything I learned about tweaking WordPress and the Branford Magazine theme.
(You can use this same information with most magazine-style WordPress themes, including Mimbo.)
I explain the process, step-by-step. I've included lots of screenshots from WordPress 2.3.3*, the
most popular version online. Here are what two of the pages look like.
The chapters:
Introduction
Getting started
Customizing your theme
Branding: Your header graphic
Changing the navigation bar's color
Sidebar tweak #1: News links
Sidebar tweak #2: Headings
Other sidebar changes
Tabs: Changing their names and contents
Customizing your homepage
Custom fields for graphics
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Homepage content graphics
Uploading graphics in WordPress
Illustrations in your articles
Plugins
Managing a large site with WordPress
Copying older pages into WordPress
WordPress and JavaScript
Troubleshooting
Resources
Appendix 1: Installing WordPress from scratch
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What others say about this book:
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"I have been blogging and using the internet for years, but have always been intimidated by the thought of establishing my own free-standing webpage.
'Sites that Soar' has all of the information I would need to set up my first page and make it rock, in a clear and easy-to-follow instructional
format.
"Now all I need to do is decide what to call it! Thanks!" -- Vernon Pope
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I have read through Sites that Soar, and I'm just amazed at how comprehensive, yet SUCCINCT you've managed to
make this!
You've created maps and timelines and all of the visuals that someone like me needs (I
do know html and css, but am really clueless about php and in particular, Wordpress has scared me
off several attempts prior!).
I feel like this is just the tool I need to get me where I want to be
with a Web 2.0 version of my site, that doesn't cut into my time to serve clients and make music!
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| "Aisling's e-book, Sites that Soar, takes what makes starting a blog hard out of the picture and replaces it with easy to understand instructions.
She shows you how to make your own website using the WordPress blogging system; taking you from
purchasing your own domain to customizing it with text and images.
Her clear, crisp writing and fun, helpful examples not only show you how to set up your blog but how to do it in style. Aisling proves that you don't need to have previous coding experience to install a WordPress blog and take a free layout and customize it to fit your site's need.
I highly recommend and endorse this e-book to all my friends who want to start their own blogs."
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This book was written by Aisling D'Art, The Business of Art.
Order problems? Email me at: Support at SitesThatSoar.com
*On March 30th, I tried WordPress 2.5. As soon as it's stable, I'll update this book with illustrations from 2.5,
and my book customers will be able to download that version, free. (Inside the book, there's a link to my many
SECRET freebies.)
However, no matter which version of WordPress you use, the steps are the same as I describe in this book.
