The newest installment in the Jewelers Website Assistant Series is ready:
Setting Up Static Contact, Privacy, and About Pages
As always, if you have questions, you can ask them here, on the JWA website, on Facebook or email me.
Enjoy!
goldie
The newest installment in the Jewelers Website Assistant Series is ready:
Basic Plugins You’ll Need And How To Install Them
As always, if you have questions, you can ask them here, on the JWA website, on Facebook or email me.
Enjoy!
goldie
Since I have the website up & running for the Jewelers Website Assistant series, I’m going to be posting the actual lessons there, but I will always post here, too, and let you know when there’s a new one ready. Like now. I’ve just posted the next session about installing themes:
http://www.jewelerswebsiteassistant.com/how-to-select-and-install-a-theme
As always, if you have questions, you can ask them here, on the JWA website, on Facebook or email me.
Enjoy!
goldie
You may or may not have figured this out already, but the News section of Golden Maille runs on WordPress software. If you’ve never heard of WordPress, it is a content management system, most often used to publish Blogs. Since being introduced in 2003, it has grown by leaps and bounds, and today over 300 million websites use it. WordPress itself is free, but several cottage industries have sprung up around it. Many folks are gainfully employed designing themes and plugins, some of which are sold, though the majority are given away freely.
I discovered WordPress in 2004 when I added the first News section to my website. Since then, I have installed it dozens of times for myself and for family and friends who wanted to start blogs. As more and more jewelry makers are discovering every day, the internet is a great place to show off, and sell, your jewelry, and WordPress is the easiest way to build a website for that.
I am often asked how the Golden Maille site was built, who do I recommend for a web host, how did I do this or that. I don’t mind answering these questions, I have helped several people get their sites up & running. Since the questions are getting more frequent, I feel like there’s a real desire for more information, so I’ve decided to start a new series of posts designed to help everyone create a website with WordPress and get it set up properly so Google, and the rest of the world, can find you. And once they find you, they can click a button and buy your jewelry right then. To do this, I’ve set up a new website named JewelersWebsiteAssistant.com. There is actually nothing on it right now, but I’ll be using it as a demo site to show you how to do things as I go along.
The first few lessons will be basic: how to register a domain and change the nameservers to point to your hosting account. How to install WordPress with a couple of clicks. Then I’ll talk about selecting a theme and which plugins you need and how to install them. Later on, I’ll get more in depth about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and why you need it. And how to customize your theme, how to add advertising to your site if you want to go that route.
If you’ve already set up a website, but have questions, send me an email or leave a comment – I’ll be happy to help.
Talk to you soon,
goldie