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Chuck Smith

Building Your Website – The Right Plugins

Now that you’ve set up your WordPress site and chosen a theme, there are a few things you will need to do to make your website run more efficiently.  And this starts with adding some features using plugins. Plugins are small chunks of computer code that enhance the functionality of your WordPress-based website.  And don’t [...]

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Building Your Website – Picking a Theme

The next step in building your website is to pick a theme, which controls the look of your site.  And in WordPress, there are 1,000s of themes available for free, and some premium themes that don’t cost an arm and a leg.

Pick a WordPress Theme Tutorial

Next up… The Right Plugins for Your Site:

Register your domain [...]

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Building Your Website – Wordpress Dashboard

After creating yesteday’s video, I realized it would be a good idea to include a quick tour of the WordPress Dashboard in order to familiarize you with what you’re going to see when you log into the backend.  So, I created this quick video tour:

WordPress Dashboard Tutorial

Next up… Selecting a theme:

Register your domain and set [...]

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Building Your Website – Step 2

The quilting website tutorial was derailed for a bit, but I’m getting it back on track right now!  Here’s Step 2 – Setting Up WordPress.
From this point on, I’m going to be using a sample site called www.QuiltingBlog.com.  You’ll be able to go and check it out as the site progresses.  At some point, I [...]

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Building Your Website – Step 1

I’m almost ready to start putting up the In A Good Way website (just waiting for some content and images), but I realized that the very first steps in getting your own website up and running were not covered – registering your domain, securing hosting, and changing nameservers.
So, I’ve put together three short videos on [...]

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Watch Me Build a Website

A lot of you helped out Teddi with In A Good Way, the charity that works with Native Americans looking to get their lives back on track.
Teddi has been working on getting a website developed for the charity, and now I’ve decided to help out and work with Teddi to build the www.InAGoodWay.org website.  And, [...]

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Q&A: Stay Away from eBay

I received this question from Eileen Keane about selling on eBay and making a decent living…
Good morning Chuck,
Thank you for including me on your mailing list for your ezine! I’m finding lots of valuable information on it.
I’ve been reading the selling on eBay article and checking out other machine quilters on eBay. I have to [...]

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