Template Customization

How to install wordpress and plugins on your domain

Posted on 22. Jun, 2008 by Dave.

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In my last post I introduced you to my personal favorite blogging software, which is WordPress. Also, I showed you where you can download the latest version of WordPress, which was here http://wordpress.org/download/.

And, I explained to you about WordPress themes, and warned you that they can be great for you, then again also for your competitors’ sites that bought the same template theme that you did!

Consequently, I advised you to take full advantage of our template customization services, which start at just $380 a pop (What’s the process?). In this post Mochtar Djoko shows us how to make “blogging” for everyone, everything from installation to adding a plugin etc…

Blogs and blogging are huge topics nowadays. No matter what’s your status or age, people from all over the world are blogging. Housewives, businessman, teenager and even grandmas are blogging. For all those who dont know, a blog is simply a web log or an online journal. Some people are just blogging about their lives or hobbies, but some others are using it as a marketing device or for business purpose.

To start blogging you can go to http://www.blogger.com or http://www.wordpress.com for a more popular ones. Now, I received a lot of emails asking on how to install wordpress or activate plugins on your domain. Don’t worry, once you read this article, you will be able to not only install wordpress, but you will be able to start experimenting on the plugins you have.

First, you need to go to your cpanel menus on your website. For example, if your website is http://www.rudythegreat.com, then you can access the cpanel menus by typing this on your web browser ‘http://www.rudythegreat.com/cpanel’. Once you login, you need to go look for fantastico icon on the menu. Click on it. Then select wordpress and simply clik install. It will ask you some basic information and install wordpress for you.

What if you dont have a hosting account or your hosting account does not have fantastico. This is my recommendation. Go to http://www.wordpress.org and download the files to your computer. Then what you need to do is outsource the installation to somebody else. You can get someone to install the wordpress for only $20. Usually a programmer only needs 10 – 15 minutes to install it. For outsourcing, you can try http://www.rentacoder.com

Next, you might want to install some plugins into your wordpress to optimize your pages for search engine optimization purposes. To search for a free wordpress plugins, you can try http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/.

After you find, download and extract your plugins, open up a ftp program or download a free ftp program Filezilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/). Open up your ftp program, and put your website address on the address box, then fill in the username and password. Then click on quick connect. Once you are connected, double click on www -> wp-content-> plugins.

Simply upload your plugins into his remote site. Next, you will need to login into your wordpress account, then go to plugins link. Over here, you can click on ‘activate’ for any plugins you see fit. Simply click on the name of the plugin, it will send you to the author’s website. You can look for guides over there. Every plugins will have different installation guide. Some are easy and some others are harder.

A few plugin that I recommend are: SEO Title Tag, Sociable, Social Auto Poster, Google Sitemap, Related Post, and feedburner. Search for these plugins on google, and try to download and activate it.

About the Author
Mochtar Djoko has been making money through the internet for the past five years. He specializes in selling on ebay and doing internet marketing. You can learn more about selling on ebay and internet marketing on http://www.mochtardjoko.com

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Custom Web Design or Template Customization Which is Better?

Posted on 20. Jun, 2008 by Dave.

Custom design evangelists often claim that the use of website templates only ensures that you have a design that looks just like someone else’s website. Primarily because website templates may be resold, they argue, web templates are not unique and may give your company an unprofessional, unpolished appearance, and that you should always opt for a custom site.

Is it true that website templates are indeed inherently deficient? – If such reasoning were true, however, why would website template usages continue to be such a reliable resource for the entire web design industry itself?

The truth is, used properly, in union with professional template customization, website templates can provide you with a unique and high quality design at just a fraction of the cost of hiring someone else to do a custom design starting from scratch.

In fact, whether they advertise it or not every web designer custom or not uses some form of website template. Just as a wise contractor makes good use of a blueprint to guide the construction of a building to its successful completion, every web designer also uses a template or basis as his or her guide in creating a unique and well-organized web site.

What then, are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using a website template? – Two clear advantages are time and money. Typically speaking it can take many days for a good designer to create a preliminary mockup of such quality.

Also, consider the time necessary to piece the original design into slices and the actual rendering of the design onto HTML and resources spent validating that code on all major browsers. The cost of which will most certainly be passed onto you, the client.

On the contrary, however, every website template is like an almost finished web page that has been preliminary designed, sliced and pull together with all the graphics and necessary coding so as to help you put your website online without difficulty and in no time.

Just what are you getting at here? – With that in mind, I’m implying that since we don’t start from scratch but build on pre-made website templates, we are faster and way less expensive than hiring a regular web design studio.

What’s more, many of our prospective clients are amazed when we show them how they can have professional template customization on anyone of our website templates custom-made to the specific needs and goals of their business for only $380.

How is that possible? – This is possible because, we only use website templates from the world’s leading providers and every template we customize comes already built and thoroughly tested by a professional web designer, as apposed to hiring some web design studio who’s in-house talent (or lack thereof) is full of print designers who’ve moved over or full of programmers who fell into web design and are nothing more than a bunch of hobbyists.

You wouldn’t want a designer who’s passionate about PHP? You can get a PHP developer. You want a designer who’s passionate about design. You don’t want to be haggling neither, no, not if you could see beforehand what it is you are buying and know exactly how much it’ll cost you.

Consequently, since we do not develop from scratch but because every web template is made by a professional that understand layout, white space, typography and the like; this enables us to pass that savings onto “you”, the client.

In addition, you don’t need any special skills you simply choose a template hop over to the contact form and give us some general information(e.g. some suggested color schemes, colors to avoid, styles or websites that you likes etc.). Then at your convenience we can contact you to review your projects objective and tell you more about the process.

Is it true however, that website templates are indeed resold? – Ok, yes, our web templates can be sold repeatedly to different customers, however, we thoroughly track and show you the total number of times a particular template is downloaded and we make every effort to ensure that the total number of downloads never exceeds five.

In addition, there are now over 3,000,000,000 webpages online according to statistics on www.google.com so there is a very little chance that you will ever find the same design twice.

But, be that as it may, template customization is the only sure-ways to have a website that is both affordable and unique. Template customization allow you change the templates color scheme, insert texts, substitute graphics, logo, titles, Meta tags etcetera, etcetera…

The result is a unique product that works intuitively to help your customers identify your brand, which in turn is what truly defines branding in the classic sense of the term meaning to establish a unique identity. And that shouldn’t have to cost a fortune.

So does the use of web templates present an insurmountable obstacles or irremediable technical issue, or can web templates, along with template customization, provide you with a unique and high quality design? I’m sure you’ll agree with the latter.

Can I see some template customization examples? – Thought you’d never ask! We encourage you to take a moment of your time to see our template customization portfolio this will really help you see some neat ideas and creative solutions we bring to the templates we customize.

Should you wish to acquire more information about our template customization services simply jump on over to the contact form and tell us what you think.

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