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The Lightbox Effect is a great way to showcase our images. You’ve probably seen it and may not realize it was the Lightbox Effect. Have you visited a gallery page, clicked on an image, and it opens up into it’s own box? That’s the Lightbox Effect. It is easy to use and gives a professional [...]
Photo by Mike Baird on Flickr Most of my clients are looking for the easiest way to install and setup WordPress. It can be as easy as clicking a button but if it leaves our site vulnerable to attack – the ease of setting it up quickly fades. Here are a few steps we can [...]
One of the many things I love about WordPress is the ease in which a gallery or a portfolio can be placed online. There are tons of options available for Portfolio Themes. In this post, we are going to take a look at FREE themes. All these themes have good documentation available online and make [...]
You’re ready for your photography website. What do you need to know? Here are five questions to ask your web designer. Plus, since WordPress has become a very common option for websites, we’ll look at how WordPress addresses each of these questions. Before we get started, let’s look at a few Photography sites done in [...]
Plugins increase the functionality of WordPress. Yet, there are a set of standard plugins that seem to be common to most installations of WordPress. View this video to learn about the most common plugins. View more WordPress How To Videos.
To use WordPress, you need to know about the Dashboard. This video gives you an overview of what you can do from the WordPress dashboard. View more WordPress How To Videos.
Need to find an image for your blog post? Watch this video to learn how to use Flickr to find images that enhance your post. And, find out about istockphotos. View more WordPress How To Videos. What has been your experience with Flickr or istockphotos? What other services would you recommend?
This WordPress tutorial shows how to use Widgets. Widgets add a lot of functionality to your site. From a search box to menus to a calendar – and that’s just the default widgets. Plugins expand the options beyond that. In this video, learn how to add widgets to your website. View more WordPress How To [...]
This WordPress tutorial shows one of the best features of WordPress 3.0 and later. That is the ability to set up menus. You can set up Menus just the way you want them. Add drop down options. Learn how to take control of your menus in this video. View more WordPress How To Videos.
How do we make the pages and the posts on our WordPress sites optimized for search engines? Besides adding SEO plugins, there are several techniques we can use when creating content to enhance our search engine results. Let’s start with the plugins. There are two plugins that come highly recommended. They are both free. Plugins [...]
