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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:26:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/design-a-form-for-your-sidebar/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/design-a-form-for-your-sidebar/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:42:35 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=6748 Preview tutorial...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/design-a-form-for-your-sidebar/feed/ 0 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/using-notifications-on-gravity-forms/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/using-notifications-on-gravity-forms/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:58:28 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=5999 Read more...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/using-notifications-on-gravity-forms/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/user-submitted-online-directory/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/user-submitted-online-directory/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 01:32:14 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=5854 There is a free addon for Gravity Forms which allows you to turn one of your online forms into a directory you can publish elsewhere on your website. This is perfect for Membership lists, local business directories, book lists, practitioner directories, job listings, feature request lists and any other type of online directory. Use Cart66 to collect payment in return for listing on your directory. Read More...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/user-submitted-online-directory/feed/ 0 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/create-max-landing-pages-in-wordpress/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/create-max-landing-pages-in-wordpress/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:49:00 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=5622 A landing page is a webpage with a single focus which helps close your sale. The Max Landing plugin lets you create landing pages from inside your WordPress admin choosing from a whole variety of different layouts including forms, photos and video. Generate a newsletter signup, Sell a single product, Generate enquiries about a single property, Sell tickets to a special event, Introduce a product to a particular target market.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/create-max-landing-pages-in-wordpress/feed/ 0 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/iphone-app-for-your-mobile-website/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/iphone-app-for-your-mobile-website/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:08:07 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=5325 Read more...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/iphone-app-for-your-mobile-website/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/one-signup-2-newsletters/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/one-signup-2-newsletters/#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:25:07 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=5076 Gravity Forms has a great little MailChimp Add-on which lets you use a gravity form as your email signup form. You link the form to your newsletter list and subscribers are automatically added to your database. You can include a drop down field or check boxes on your form giving subscribers a choice of newsletters. Each option sends their details to a specific MailChimp list.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/one-signup-2-newsletters/feed/ 0 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/send-posts-to-multiple-twitter-accounts/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/send-posts-to-multiple-twitter-accounts/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:11:03 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4858 As well as sending your WordPress posts to your company twitter account automatically, the Wordtwit Pro plugin allows your blog authors to also send their posts to their own twitter accounts so you can tweet one post many times.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/send-posts-to-multiple-twitter-accounts/feed/ 4 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/keep-forms-short-conditional-fields/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/keep-forms-short-conditional-fields/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:49:50 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4798 Keep certain fields on your forms hidden until a particular option is selected on another part of the form. This keeps your forms short and uncomplicated but still gathers all the information you require. This is easy to do with Gravity Forms by adding a conditional statement to any of your form fields. You don't have to know any coding or computer speak - I promise.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/keep-forms-short-conditional-fields/feed/ 0 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/mobile-version-of-your-wordpress-website/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/mobile-version-of-your-wordpress-website/#comments Sat, 28 May 2011 02:32:18 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4405 Read more...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/mobile-version-of-your-wordpress-website/feed/ 4 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/tips-to-improve-your-website-forms/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/tips-to-improve-your-website-forms/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 00:42:33 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4314 There are a lot of ways you can improve your online forms so they are more intuitive, better formatted and (most importantly) more likely to be filled in by a potential customer. Keep reading to find out which fields to use when and how to make your website forms more user friendly...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/tips-to-improve-your-website-forms/feed/ 2 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/easy-order-and-payment-forms/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/easy-order-and-payment-forms/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:24:36 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4083 The latest version of Gravity Forms has new set of payment fields like product, options, shipping and quantity which you can add to your forms to turn them into Order Forms. You can then go a step further and upload the PayPal addon so that when the form is submitted, the user is taken to your PayPal account to pay using their credit card. ]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/easy-order-and-payment-forms/feed/ 0 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/automatic-child-page-summaries/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/automatic-child-page-summaries/#comments Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:38:32 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=3800 The Sub Page Summary plugin automatically adds a summary any top level page with one or more subpages. The summary includes a title linking to the subpage, a text excerpt and a thumbnail-sized image. This plugin does for pages what category pages do for posts. Keep reading to find out how to use it, ideas for different ways to use it and examples of websites already using it.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/automatic-child-page-summaries/feed/ 2 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/paypal-and-the-e-commerce-plugin/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/paypal-and-the-e-commerce-plugin/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:18:51 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=3398 PayPal is a quick and easy way to accept credit card payments for the products in your online store. You just need a free PayPal account, the free version of the Wordpress E-Commerce plugin installed on your WordPress website and you're almost there. Find out how to make your customer's buying experience even better by adding your custom logo or header to the PayPal payments page and returning customers to a custom page on your website.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/paypal-and-the-e-commerce-plugin/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/related-posts-plugins/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/related-posts-plugins/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:40:09 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=3101 Adding a related posts plugin to your WordPress blog adds a list of similar posts underneath each post which readers can click on to read more of your fascinating insights. Find out how to list related posts by category, by author, by tag and with images.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/related-posts-plugins/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-search-engine-guide/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-search-engine-guide/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:32:22 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=3175 If you're using WordPress, every one of your pages and blog posts is now its own standalone website with its own url, title and description and it’s own potential for a listing on Google. This means that you need to optimise every single post you publish, not just the homepage for search engines. find out which are the best SEO plugins, what to write in your titles and descriptions and what the next steps are for optimising your website. Download my FREE SEO Planning Spreadsheet...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-search-engine-guide/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/tables-plugin-for-wordpress/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/tables-plugin-for-wordpress/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:02:20 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=3128 The WP Table Reloaded Plugin makes it easy for you to create and edit tables to add to any page/post on your WordPress website. If you've ever tried to paste a table into WordPress from Microsoft Word, you will know that even if you manage to get it in the right place, you can't control the look of it and it's almost impossible to change or add to it. If you want to display information in a table with several columns, the WP Tables reloaded plugin will solve all your problems. ]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/tables-plugin-for-wordpress/feed/ 4 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/flickr-photos-in-website-design/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/flickr-photos-in-website-design/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:16:24 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=3033 Using the flickrRSS plugin means you can have your most recent Flickr images or your Flickr group's most recently submitted photos displaying across your homepage, in your website banner, in your sidebar or any other location on your website. This is an easy way to keep your website looking fresh and interesting and (if using the Flckr group option) to build a community.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/flickr-photos-in-website-design/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/user-generated-posts-with-gravity-forms/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/user-generated-posts-with-gravity-forms/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:51:05 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=1864 Did you know that Gravity forms can be used to automatically create WordPress blog posts? This is an easy way to have users submit articles and listings for online directories without having to login or have access to the website administration. You set up a form with fields for title, content etc, add the form to your website and the form entries are turned into blog posts waiting for you to approve and publish them.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/user-generated-posts-with-gravity-forms/feed/ 9 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-plugin-guide/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-plugin-guide/#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:24:33 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=2678 An extract from my WordCamp Presentation...Plugins are pieces of software which you can upload to your WordPress website/blog to add functionality such as: email forms, photo galleries, social media sharing, events calendars, e-commerce etc.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-plugin-guide/feed/ 9 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/survey-your-customers-online/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/survey-your-customers-online/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:44:34 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=2655 Use the PollDaddy plugin for WordPress to add a survey to your website quickly and easily. Find out what they think about your products, what they want to know more about and a host of other questions. You can have the survey results instantly visible to everyone or just to yourself from inside your WordPress admin.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/survey-your-customers-online/feed/ 5