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Beyond Blogging: How to Create Custom Content Types

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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

The true power of WordPress is that you can customize it to do all sorts of neat stuff without being a code nerd. It’s not just a blogging tool. By using custom post types and a few plugins, you can easily add features like a staff directory, photo gallery or catalog of resources. You can even customize it to the point that it works flawlessly for a client—no confusing fields with odd labels that require lots of explanation.

“Custom Post Types” is a 75-minute (recorded) webinar that explains several different ways to create custom post types and methods to pull out that data and display it. All without having to touch the code. And if you really want, we offer the links to help you dive into the code as well.

By learning how to create custom post types you can truly take WordPress beyond blogging and build anything your clients need. It’s just another benefit of becoming a WebDesign.com premium member.

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Categories : Content, Web Design Courses, WordPress

How to Build a Widget Only Website

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Friday, May 27th, 2011

A widget only website is quick and easy to create and update. With most WordPress themes it’s hard to change how the front page looks without dabbling in code. But using iThemes’ Builder we can create a WordPress site using only widgets that is quick and easy to customize.

“Blueprint Basics: Widget Only Website” is an 80-minute (recorded) webinar that will show you how to build and populate widgets. A widget only website is an easy way to get a site you can customize up and running quickly without touching code.

Using widgets, and the Widget Content feature unique to iThemes Builder, also makes it easy for your clients to handle simple sidebar/widget updates on their own.

This is just one of the many courses available with a WebDesign.com premium membership. Join today to tap into this constantly expanding source of web knowledge.

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Designing a Website from a Sketch to WordPress

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Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Building a website from an idea to a fully functional site is no easy task. But it’s a design process you need to learn how to maximize as a web designer. “Blueprint Advanced: Sketch to WordPress” is an advanced design course that will show you how to take a site from a simple sketch to a finished website.

This is how you actually build a site, with an emphasis on working through the design process with a client—and avoiding the headaches that can cause. The 154-minute recorded training webinar will cover how to get started, tools you can use and creating elements within WordPress. It will dive into some code, but don’t worry—heavy coding isn’t the focus.

This in-depth lesson is part of the WebDesign.com premium membership. Join now to access a growing library featuring more than 250 hours of web know-how.

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Using Videos to Drive Traffic

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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Since the advent of YouTube in 2005, video has overwhelmed the Internet. YouTube gets more than 2 billion views a day and Netflix is the largest source of Internet traffic in North America. People like video. We can help you add video to your cache of web tools. “Working with Videos” is a 73-minute (recorded) webinar that covers the ins and outs of creating videos and using them to drive traffic to your site.

In the WebDesign.com webinar, you will learn:

Common elements in viral videos.
The importance of including a call to action.
How to make videos.
Different types of videos you can create.
Tools you can use.

Video can drive loads of traffic. But to get the most out of your videos, you need to have a reason and purpose behind your videos. Otherwise people will just move on and watch something else.

It’s part of the WebDesign.com premium membership. Join now to access a growing library of more than 200 hours of web know-how.

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Categories : Video, Web Design Courses

What are Post Formats and How to Use Them

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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Blog posts are great, but they’re not the only type of content you might share. You’ve got photos, video, links and quotes—oh my. Post formats are a nifty tool in WordPress 3.1 that enables you to format different types of content in different ways.

Post formats are a powerful bit of functionality that can make your website a lot more flexible and save you time. That’s good. But they’re not activated or styled out of the box with WordPress 3.1. That’s bad. But never fear—we can help!

Our 51-minute “Post Formats” recorded webinar dives into what post formats are, how to activate them and how to edit the code to make them work. Soon you’ll be able to add custom styles to different content on your site, making quotes and links stand out from your standard posts.

It’s all part of the WebDesign.com premium membership, which includes a growing library of content—currently more than 200 hours of web knowledge.

With many of the WebDesign.com classes there is a valuable PDF handout. Download the PostFormats PDF for this webinar to see how valuable they are.

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Categories : Tutorial, Web Design Courses

Top 10 SEO Practices You Can Learn

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Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of tweaking your website to boost your ranking in search engine results. It’s a big business—the higher your site ranks in search engines, the more traffic you’ll get.

In the 65-minute (recorded) webinar, “Top SEO Practices,” Bbenjamin Bradley goes over simple SEO techniques you can learn without having to shell out the big bucks. These are practices you can apply to any site, no matter what content management system, theme or plugins you use. Benjamin also sheds light on what the high-dollar SEO firms charge for and how you can do it yourself. It’s a skill you can learn and if you can learn the skill, you can provide the same service. It’s DIY SEO.

These SEO techniques range from title tags to alt tags, sitemaps to relevant content. This webinar is part of the WebDesign.com premium membership. As a member you can get immediate access to these top 10 SEO practices, plus another 200+ hours of training webinars. What are you waiting for? You can be climbing the search engine results in no time.

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Categories : Searches, Web Design Courses

How to Create an SEO Audit and Make Money

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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

A search engine optimization (SEO) audit is a way to assess a website’s health. It’s a snapshot of where the site is at and whether it’s good, needs some help or needs a lot of help.

An SEO audit is a simple but valuable service you can offer to bring in new clients and make money. Our 83-minute “How To Do an SEO Audit and Make Money” (recorded) webinar training will show you how to create an SEO audit and offer this service in 10 simple steps.

This webinar covers how to create the audit itself. You’ll evaluate their SEO and make suggestions for improvement. This is not about how to make SEO improvements, SEO best practices or SEO plugins. It’s simply about evaluating existing SEO and making recommendations.

An SEO audit is something that should be done every year. SEO isn’t something you do once and forget—it’s constantly evolving process so it needs to be evaluated on a regular basis. Which means an SEO audit is a service you can offer annually and can become a reliable, repeat profit stream.

“How To Do an SEO Audit and Make Money” is one of more than 230 hours of training included as part of the WebDesign.com premium membership. Not only would joining WebDesign.com give you loads of web knowledge, it can also help you make money. Bonus.

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Categories : Searches, Web Design Courses

Use Related Posts Plugins to Retain Traffic & Boost SEO

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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

Linking to your own content is good for two reasons:

It keeps people on your site reading your stuff.
It helps with your search engine optimization (SEO).

“Related Posts Plugins” is a 67-minute (recorded) webinar that helps you find plugins to automatically highlight some of your own content. You’ll be adding links to related content that pull people deeper into your site. Score. And it will happen automatically. Even better. The webinar addresses three recommended plugins and two you should definitely avoid.

You’ll also learn other ways you can link to your own content – and how thinking through the text you link can help your SEO. It’s called keyword linking—the text you link is just as important as what you link to. Doing it right can boost your SEO.

Lessons like this are part of the WebDesign.com premium membership. Enroll now and get access to a growing library of knowledge.

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Categories : Plugins, Web Design Courses

Gravity Forms Webinar Time Change

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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Quick notification to everyone that tomorrow’s (May 18th) Gravity Forms live training webinar has a time change. Instead of 2pm, the new start time is 7pm (Central Time). Join us for the fun live and interactive training webinar and learn how to get more out of Gravity Forms and your WordPress website. See you all tomorrow.

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Categories : Web Design Courses

How to Create Buttons with Photoshop

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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Photoshop® is a powerful tool for designers, but you have to know what you’re doing. Novice Photoshop® skills will give you a website that looks unprofessional at best. “Creating Buttons with Photoshop” is a 90-minute basic design webinar that teaches you how to create simple but stylish buttons using Adobe Photoshop®.

(WebDesign.com members can view the video recording of the webinar in your members area.)

Buttons are the “call to action” areas of your site—“buy now,” “watch the demo,” “order”—and they should look good. This webinar demonstrtes the skills to create more striking visual images—we’re going beyond simple blocks of color. We’re talking gradients, rounded corners, lighting effects, texture, edges and more.

These are the basic building blocks of your site and you should be able to create them yourself without calling in a professional (and expensive) designer to do it for you. Plus, the skills you learn in this recorded webinar can be applied to all kinds of graphic design work in Photoshop®. You’re learning how to make buttons, but you’ll have the skills to make headers, backgrounds and just about any graphic element you need.

Call it “Photoshop 101″. It’s part of the WebDesign.com premium membership. Enroll today to learn how to make your own buttons and access a growing library of web design knowledge.

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Categories : Design, Web Design Courses