Mobile Website? Do I Need a Separate .mobi ? First published on Beauzartes Wordpress Websites

Short answer: No. You don’t need a separate mobile website. Long answer involving cash: Not with a responsive theme and mobile website plugin upgrade. Numerous devices have flooded the market in different screen sizes from Phones to 7″ tablets to iPads to Laptops to Desktops to TV monitors. How in the world can your website [...]

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Yoast SEO Plugin Tutorial: A Basic Primer for the Best SEO Plugin First published on Beauzartes Wordpress Websites

This is a simple Yoast SEO plugin tutorial with explanations for those who aren’t professional SEO’s. What follows are basic instructions on using it while you are writing posts or pages. Setting the plugin up is covered in another tutorial. Joost de Valk is a Dutch web developer and SEO expert who creates plugins for [...]

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Upload Images WordPress Media Library 2013 First published on Beauzartes Wordpress Websites

This tutorial will give you the basics to upload images WordPress Media uploader. These instructions are slightly different from adding images to a post or page you are creating. Login to your WordPress backend at http://yourwebsite.com/wp-admin You’ll see a list of different sections of your site in the far left column. You will want to [...]

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Mailchimp Overview 2012 First published on Beauzartes Wordpress Websites

Create a Campaign Set up your first Mailchimp campaign using this visual step-by-step tutorial. Mailchimp recently updated their platform, so these screens differ from previous Mailchimp posts. STEP 1 – Go to Campaigns and Choose Regular Ol’ Campaign   STEP 2 – Choose the list to send to under Recipients STEP 3 – Add your [...]

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Before and After: WordPress Website Design First published on Beauzartes Wordpress Websites

I just watched a marathon of makeovers on HGTV, so I thought I’d show a few recent client sites that have been ‘remodeled’ with the magic of WordPress website design. Bonita Pool and Spa, San Diego WordPress Website Design This site, like many small business sites, was originally built by a family member. They contacted [...]

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Finding Copyright Free Images for Your Blog Posts First published on Beauzartes Wordpress Websites

Looking for copyright free images for your blog post? You may have gone to Google image search and downloaded images there, resulting in viruses on your computer (happens to the best of us)  or the nightmare of threatening letters from Getty Images. Not a good idea to just download images from another website. Just because [...]

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Mailchimp: Upload Your List First published on Beauzartes Wordpress Websites

You’ll need to create a spreadsheet of your contacts in a format Mailchimp will accept. This can be a csv file or an Excel spreadsheet. How to export your address book so Mailchimp can accept it? There is an excellent tutorial for Outlook here. Open that page in one browser tab, then click on these [...]

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Mailchimp: Sending Your First Campaign First published on Beauzartes Wordpress Websites

UPDATE OCT 2012: There is an update to this tutorial here This tutorial explains how to send an email campaign using Mailchimp’s 2012 interface. It assumes that you already have a template set up. And that you already have your email list uploaded. You can save yourself a lot of grief by writing your content [...]

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Mailchimp: Edit Your Template First published on Beauzartes Wordpress Websites

This tutorial shows how to edit a Mailchimp template – how to add your text and images to a template that’s already been  created.This is simply a visual guide to show you what to do when you get to the template during campaign creation. This first visual explains what the different parts of the template [...]

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WP e-Commerce How To: Changing the Email Messages That Go to Your Customers First published on Beauzartes Wordpress Websites

This is a visual tutorial about changing the WP e-Commerce emails and notices that are sent to your customers after a transaction takes place. This assumes you know nothing about php. Before You Begin If you’ve never changed any of the back-end files in WP e-Commerce, you’ll have to muster up some guts. Mistakes can [...]

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