WordPress Sites that Soar
If you are blogging for a while, you certainly have compared many blogs with yours and tried to optimise your own blog to a better style and more. As I have not much programming skills, it is quite difficult for me to properly and easy implement themes, graphics and other niche tools to use on my blog. For that reason I was looking for a good tutorial to help me safe time and get results fast.
I have found an eBook for only $ 17, written by Aisling D’Art with the title
If you want a professional-looking (blog) website that
– Attracts repeat customers,
– Ranks well and quickly at Google, and
– Is as easy to maintain as a blog (but doesn’t look like one)…
You need to read this book and apply the offered techniques and recommendations.
The book is a WordPress blog design guide for non-techies. It explains, step-by-step, how to customize a WordPress blog so that it looks like a news portal or magazine, not like a blog. It features lots of screenshots and is written for beginners with no HTML skills. However, it also covers CMS topics and provides tips for using WordPress with large and over 200 articles websites.
The author even includes a timeline, showing exactly how she started with nothing (not even a domain name or hosting) and set up a complete, magazine-style website. This 56-page book is a PDF-file with links to every resource Aisling uses, and — except for domain registration and hosting — they are all free resources and tools.
Bonuses include 40 WordPress-ready graphics that you can download at the author’s website.
Using this system, Aisling took her website from page five at Google to the top three in her niche in only three days. And, the site was still there at this hig ranking a month later.
See what’s covered in detail by this ebook:
Getting started
Customizing your theme
Important backups
Branding: Your header graphic
Adding articles
Categories
Finding your Category ID numbers
Editing your website code
Sidebar changes
Widgets
Tabs: Changing their names and contents
Customizing your homepage
Homepage graphics explained
Custom fields and graphics
Uploading graphics in WordPress
Adding homepage graphics
Plugins
Managing a large site with WordPress
Copying older pages into WordPress
Troubleshooting
How to add articles (step-by-step summary)
Glossary
Appendix 1: Installing WordPress (auto)
Appendix 2: Installing WordPress (other)
Appendix 3: WordPress for SEO
Appendix 4: Creating an .htaccess file
Appendix 5: Changing header background, image size
Appendix 6: Navigation bar changes
Appendix 7: An actual timeline
