Creating an email list is one of the most important tasks that you need to do to build your business. Your email list is the lifeblood of your marketing. If you learn to build a relationship with your customers by sending them only valuable information on your topic, then they will respond to you … Read more about Getting Started in Email Marketing and Building a List
How to Build SEO with External and Internal Links
This video will show you the fundamental principles of building links from your page to other pages or between pages on your own website. Linking is very simple. Highlight the text, use the link tool, and put in the destination URL. However, this video not only shows you the process, but it … Read more about How to Build SEO with External and Internal Links
Working with Widgets, Sidebars, and Menus in WordPress
This video will explain how to work with widgets, sidebars, and menus in your Genesis Template. You have multiple menu locations in each template. Genesis gives you great flexibility to customize how your website will look. You Any links or affiliate code here [flowplayer … Read more about Working with Widgets, Sidebars, and Menus in WordPress
Organizing, Cropping, and Re-sizing Photos for Your Website Using Picassa
This video will help you learn to organize, group, crop, and make minor edits to photos before you load your images to your website. As you begin to accumulate information for your website, keeping all of the images organized can get complicated. So, we use Picassa to help us create albums for … Read more about Organizing, Cropping, and Re-sizing Photos for Your Website Using Picassa
How to legally find “free” and inexpensive images on the web.
We all need photos for our websites. Inside we know that we are not supposed to download other people's photos, but it is often tempting because there are so many out there and it's just a click away. But the reality is that it is both illegal and unethical. However, there are sources of high … Read more about How to legally find “free” and inexpensive images on the web.
Working with Images on Posts and Pages
This video will show you some tips to working with images on your pages and posts in Wordpress. When we first start working on the web, we often just want to load a nice photo from our camera to the web. However, if we do that, we will load images much larger than we should, and it causes the web … Read more about Working with Images on Posts and Pages
Selecting a WordPress Genesis Child Theme by StudioPress
The UpstartLiftoff hosting and training program allows you to select any of the Genesis Framework (by StudioPress) templates. These templates are already installed on your database. This video will show you what to look for and then how to select a template in your wordpress site. Normally … Read more about Selecting a WordPress Genesis Child Theme by StudioPress
Basic Configurations in the Genesis Framework
You're probably glad to finally get to this point. Now is when you can begin to really configure the templates. If you have added plenty of categories and content types and added plenty of articles, you should really see your website taking shape. This video is about 45 minutes, it moves quickly, … Read more about Basic Configurations in the Genesis Framework
How to Load or Use a Video on My Post or Page
(or How to Use Flowplayer with HDDN, CDN High-Speed Videos) (NOTE. This video is outdated. Use this only if you are still using the HDDN CDN.) A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a network or group of many large, fast computers around the world. They are linked and shared so that if I load a video … Read more about How to Load or Use a Video on My Post or Page
How to Change or Update a Logo or Banner on Your Website
You will probably need to create a banner or change out a log on your website. When I first tried to do this, it seemed like it took me forever. But soon I learned that the process is pretty simple. You will need an image editor, and you will need to learn a little bit about editing photos, but with … Read more about How to Change or Update a Logo or Banner on Your Website