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Artisteer Colors and Fonts Menu

March 19th, 2010 | Author: Jim Hutchinson

In the last video, we explored the ideas menu in Artisteer to choose your overall design. This video covers the colors and fonts menu, where you will learn how to choose colors, create and save color schemes, edit the typography for both the entire site and individual components within your theme.

Did you know that you could change the behavior of individual fonts within your theme? You will learn how to edit the font properties so they are consistent throughout your theme, instead of having to specify them we you write.

Watch the video and let me know what you think of it.

Coming Up Next: Artisteer Layout Menu – Designing the Page Layout and Columns

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Exploring the Artisteer Ideas Menu to Design WordPress Themes

March 15th, 2010 | Author: Jim Hutchinson

When using the Artisteer Home and Academic version to design WordPress themes, you can get ideas from using the Ideas menu to suggest all design options. There are virtually unlimited designs to be seen when each of the areas are chosen at random.

Within Artisteer, you can see random complete designs by clicking the Suggest Design button. Once you see a design you like, you can allow Artisteer to customize the following areas:

Colors
Fonts
Layout
Background
Sheet
Article Design
Blocks
Buttons
Footer

This video reviews all those options, along with how to use the Export Options menu, so you can export your theme design in a static HTML page, WordPress theme, or Blogger theme.

Watch the video and let me know what you think.

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How to Create an Image Gallery in WordPress

March 14th, 2010 | Author: Jim Hutchinson

Whether you have a website for real estate, an art gallery, your vacation photos, or maybe your hot air balloons, there will be a time when you want to post all your images in a single page. In WordPress there are a few ways to accomplish that.

You can install an image gallery plugin
Manually add the photos and try to align them to look nice
Use the WordPress built-in gallery

I was confused and frustrated with posting multiple images, trying to get them all aligned 3 across to fit the blog theme, until I learned to use the Gallery button in the Media section.

This video will show you the manual way and the automatic method using the gallery that is built into WordPress, combined with the Lightbox 2 plugin that creates slide shows for you. Watch the video an see how easy an image gallery can be to create. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Prevent WordPress Crashes

February 17th, 2010 | Author: Jim Hutchinson

How to Prevent WordPress Crashes by Repairing MySQL Tables

The heart of every WordPress blog is a database. Most often that will be MySQL (pronounced My S.Q.L. or My Sequel).

If your WordPress blog display errors instead of your content, your database could be corrupted! That would be like your heart having a murmur; you never know when it will stop working properly.

I normally cringe when someone who is unfamiliar with phpMyAdmin or dealing with databases in general says they want to look around in there. One wrong click can create a lot more problems. Following the instructions in this video, you will learn how to easily fix the database problems in just a few minutes and prevent it from happening in the future.

Just be careful to do exactly what the video shows you and nothing else, unless you are positive you know what you are doing. This is not just a scare tactic; it is a fact that I have seen happen way too many times.

If after watching the video you are still skeptical about going into the heart of your website, Website Managers will handle that for you. No, it will not cost you an arm and a leg either.