Tutorials

Tutorials for the Techno-Challenged
Turn up your computer’s volume for these tutorials (sorry)

Recommendations:

• Download Firefox as your browser when editing your Wordpress blog. This is a free browser that you can use alternately instead of Internet Explorer and is better with Wordpress (for some reason).  If you experience ‘missing’ menus or blank screens sometimes, please download Firefox and try again.

Photo Editing

You should *never* upload a photo directly from your camera (or desktop) without scaling it down.  By ignoring this, you will cause your site to run slower and photos showing up to delay the loading of your site… people will move on.

• FREE PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE:   GIMP.org free photo editing software is an awesome and powerful application that I am amazed is free and available for many platforms. 
  • For Windows:  DOWNLOAD here
  • For Mac Users: DOWNLOAD here
  • and watch the two tutorials I have created for you below:

WORDPRESS TUTORIALS FOR MY CUSTOMERS: (customized Wordpress installation)

• *Your Welcome Email* "Your Blog & Hosting" Overview (explanation of your account)
• **NEW*** Create a Post with Photo Wordpress 2.6 series
• Upgrading Wordpress with Fantastico Video
• Optional PDF: Upgrade Wordpress via Fantastico PDF Step-By-Step
• SmartFTP - Install & Upload a file
• Sidebars & Widgets
• Edit Photo for Post (Photoshop 7)

General flash tutorials on Wordpress (suitable for Wordpress.com or no plugins installed)

• What is WordPress - Overview
• How to login to WP Dashboard
• How to write a Post
• How to write a Page
• How to edit Posts/Pages
• How Widgets work
• How to moderate Comments
• WordPress Settings Overview
• How to Change/Activate Themes
• The Automatic Wordpress ‘Plug In’ (DOWNLOAD Plug In Here)
  

How-To & Optimization of Your blog

• PDF - 7 Steps To Optimizing Wordpress*
• PDF - WP Tutorial E-Book (this explains how to install and configure your own blog, you already have it installed, however you may wish to change some of the configuring). *
• LINK - De-Mystifying FTP - "How to get it up there…"  I prefer SmartFTP but this shows how to use "FireFTP" which comes built into Firefox.  Note: uploading too many plug-ins can cause them to conflict and mess up your blog.

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