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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/editing-featured-images-in-genesis/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/editing-featured-images-in-genesis/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:36:52 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=6634 Read more...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/editing-featured-images-in-genesis/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/cropping-resizing-in-wordpress/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/cropping-resizing-in-wordpress/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:27:59 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=6576 Read more...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/cropping-resizing-in-wordpress/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/flexipages-dropdown-pages-widget/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/flexipages-dropdown-pages-widget/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:09:38 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=6051 Read more...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/flexipages-dropdown-pages-widget/feed/ 0 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/genesischild-theme-setupreplacing-logo/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/genesischild-theme-setupreplacing-logo/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:34:15 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=6251 Read more...]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/genesischild-theme-setupreplacing-logo/feed/ 0 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/guide-to-genesis-featured-posts-widget/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/guide-to-genesis-featured-posts-widget/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:03:38 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=5787 This widget displays the most recent content from one of your blog categories in any number of different ways. Set the number of posts you would like to display, choose a category, then display title only, image only, title and excerpt, image and title just to name a few. You can use as many of these widgets as you like on your homepage, sidebar or footer to display a selection of your most recent content. You even get the option to include a link to more posts in the same category.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/guide-to-genesis-featured-posts-widget/feed/ 2 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/tips-for-perfect-nextgen-photo-galleries/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/tips-for-perfect-nextgen-photo-galleries/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:42:25 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=5422 There are a lot of things you can do within the NextGen Gallery plugin to really make your galleries jump out of the page and sell your product. Find out the how and why of thumbnail sizes, how to customise your thumbnails, options for gallery layout and image sorting as well as setting image effects for opening larger images.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/tips-for-perfect-nextgen-photo-galleries/feed/ 0 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/seo-your-photo-galleries/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/seo-your-photo-galleries/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:58:25 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=5386 Photo galleries can generate lots of great google juice as long as you make sure every image is search engine optimised. By default Google can't index your NextGen photo gallery images so find out how to use NextGen gallery and the Yoast SEO plugin to optimise your images for search engines.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/seo-your-photo-galleries/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/design-custom-call-to-action-buttons/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/design-custom-call-to-action-buttons/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:51:47 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4963 Find out how to crop and re-size professional button images from Fotolia inside WordPress (no special software required). 'Call to Action' buttons should guide your visitors through your website and help you achieve your website goals - things like making a sale, generating an enquiry, getting a newsletter signup.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/design-custom-call-to-action-buttons/feed/ 4 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/spice-up-your-titles-with-typekit/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/spice-up-your-titles-with-typekit/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:24:34 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4472 Typekit allows you to use a huge variety of fonts on your website so you are no longer limited to web safe fonts like Arial and Verdana. Find out how to add typekit fonts to your WordPress website, get tips for choosing the right fonts and see some examples of typekit in action.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/spice-up-your-titles-with-typekit/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/creating-fancy-popup-images/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/creating-fancy-popup-images/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 23:12:24 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=4479 Adding the Lightbox2 plugin to your website means that images will open in a black popup box when clicked on. This adds a professional lightbox effect to the images in your posts and pages. If you have a series or gallery of images in one post, the lightbox includes next and previous buttons to scroll though all the images at full size. This is a FREE TUTORIAL.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/creating-fancy-popup-images/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/custom-menus-wordpress-navigation/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/custom-menus-wordpress-navigation/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:59:08 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=3287 WordPress' custom menus are a new, flexible way to create your website's navigation. find out how to use custom menus, how to create different types of navigation buttons, creative ways to use custom menus and check out a selection of sample menus.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/custom-menus-wordpress-navigation/feed/ 3 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/different-sidebars-on-different-pages/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/different-sidebars-on-different-pages/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:55:10 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=3512 How to display different information in your website's sidebar depending on which page, post or category your customers are looking at. Sidebars are a great place to display important information and calls to action but most themes only include one and sometimes this just isn't enough. I will talk you through 2 ways you can achieve this on your WordPress website or blog.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/different-sidebars-on-different-pages/feed/ 2 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/ingredients-successful-homepage/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/ingredients-successful-homepage/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:00:49 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=3434 Your homepage is the most important page on your website. You need to include snippets of your most important information here. To help with your planning, print a Homepage Planning Checklist, download Homepage Design Wireframes and view a selection of live website homepages and what makes them successful.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/ingredients-successful-homepage/feed/ 0 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/wordpress-theme-for-real-estate/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-theme-for-real-estate/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:08:53 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=2463 Wordpress and real estate are a match made in heaven especially when you start with a WordPress theme made especially for Real Estate like the AgentPress theme from StudioPress. Find out more about multiple categories, easy photo uploading, multiple authors and access levels, superior search engine optimisation and ways to automatically promote your listings.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-theme-for-real-estate/feed/ 1 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/expanding-text-for-faq-pages/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/expanding-text-for-faq-pages/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 23:52:07 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=2254 Frequently Asked Questions pages are difficult to handle well. They tend to be long which means readers have to scroll a lot. The Expanding Text Plugin from DagonDesign lets you hide the answer until someone clicks on the question. Your page looks clean and organised and your answers are easy to find.]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/expanding-text-for-faq-pages/feed/ 6 http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-posts-from-flickr/ http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-posts-from-flickr/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:53:05 +0000 Jo Couchman http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/?p=2280 Linking your Flickr account to your WordPress blog means you can turn each new Flickr image into a blog post without even leaving Flickr. Just create a photo category on your website and make it the default category, add your blog to Flickr, then click on the 'Blog This' button above any of your images to create a new post. ]]> http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/wordpress-posts-from-flickr/feed/ 3