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Learn WordPress Live at WP Bootcamp, Nov 10, Mills College, Oakland

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Learn WordPress Live. Do you need to learn WordPress or enhance and refresh your current skills? Many people start to use their WordPress website, and then forget some of what they may have already learned or never figured out things like uploading images correctly, how to name your images for search engine optimization, or things like the best plugins and tools to optimize and get the most out of your WordPress website. With our WordPress bootcamps, we offer you live and hands on help with WordPress. During WordPress bootcamp you will be working on live test sites with hands on help in a small classroom environment. Classes are limited to 8. Class sizes range from 4-10. We still have room for Mills College, Nov 10th, 2012 WordPress Bootcamp training class. In our half day bootcamp you will learn the topics below. 1. Logging In Several ways to login, and how to get to the dashboard. 2. The Dashboard Part One Media, Links, Pages, Posts, Comments. 3. Themes and Menus Custom Themes, Upgrade, Use free themes, search themes by color or layout. 4. Custom Menu Section, Parent and Child Pages Explained How to set up a custom menu, and what are parent and […]

Google Animated Doodle “Little Nemo in Slumberland”

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I love the animated Google Doodles that Google puts out once in awhile. Today’s Doodle, “Little Nemo in Slumberland”, was so charming and fun I decided to make a video of it for anyone who may miss it today. Google Doodles does have a cool Google Doodle Museum, which you can view here. The Google Animated Doodle, titled “Little Nemo in Google-land,” has eight comic panels that drop down singularly or in small groups. Clicking on the doodle activates the animation, which first colors in the letters in the Google logo in their traditional colors. I enjoy how fun and fresh the creative team doing this Google Doodles is, (it used to be just one guy doing these doodles for years!) They keep coming up with these fun and cool animations. Thanks guys. I love the old school, older illustrations feel of the drawings. I have some wonderful old Wizard of Oz books from the 30’s that are just gorgeous with this kind of art work. You could take each page and frame it. Some of the websites I have been working on are using these wonderful older color palates, which feel very fresh now after so many years of bright blues, greens and yellows […]

WordPress Bootcamp-still have some openings for Oct 13 at Stanford!

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If any of you live in the area and want to learn about WordPress or brush up on your current skills. Join me at my WordPress Bootcamp tomorrow at Stanford. I am offering any CWC members a special deal. Just click here: http://wordpressbootcamp.net/welcome-cwc-writers-special-offer/ All others, please click here: Oct 13th, 2012-Stanford University, Ca For all you East Bay people join me Nov 10th at the beautiful Mills College Campus in Oakland. Class is from 9-12 with an Q&A session afterwards. Here is what we cover in our WordPress BootCamp. 1. Logging In Several ways to login, and how to get to the dashboard. 2. The Dashboard Part One Media, Links, Pages, Posts, Comments. 3. Themes and Menus Custom Themes, Upgrade, Use free themes, search themes by color or layout. 4. Custom Menu Section, Parent and Child Pages Explained How to set up a custom menu, and what are parent and child pages? Setting up a custom menu, and what is a parent and child page? 5. General Settings Dashboard | User Section 6. General Settings Dashboard | Writing | Reading | Discussion 7. How to create and publish a Post or a Page 8. Adding tags or keywords and categories|SEO […]

SEO for Authors

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Join me today or pick up the recorded Webinar at Author Learning Center. The topic is SEO Basics for Authors. We will cover keywords, and tags, setting up a proper title for the best search engine optimization with the search engines. Discuss how search engines work. Discuss Meta Tags and are they still important today? I am demonstrating a great WordPress SEO plugin I use, which makes your job to SEO your WordPress website much easier. Hope you will join me today or catch the recorded version on their website later!

How to Increase Website Traffic to Your Website

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Website Traffic 101

How can you get more visitors to your website? What can you
do to stimulate traffic?

How fast do you “type” now? Test your typing speed online

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When I was in high school, I took a typing class twice and dropped out both times. (Yikes I think I am aging myself !) I have wanted to be a writer since I was quite young, and I knew I needed to learn how to type. I truly hated typing class and gave up on the idea I would ever be a fast typist. Life moved on, I went into the corporate world and had my own secretary so I actually never did have to learn how to type fast. Than came the internet and computers. I have been working on the computer daily since 1998. When my kids watch me type they have often said, “Wow Mom you are fast”. I still feel slow, so I just dismissed their remarks. Then I found this fun little site that tests your speed. I thought it would fun to share it with all the people like me, who flunked out of typing or maybe data entry class and might be quite fast now! Give it a try. I have to say I was pretty darned thrilled that I could actually type 62 wpm! When I tested myself about 10 years […]

WordPress Website Set Up Webinar | Author Learning Center | Linda Lee

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These days we know authors, (and most people ), need websites. But how exactly do you go about creating one? In this webinar Linda Lee will walk you through three steps to building a website based on the popular content management system, WordPress. This includes buying the domain name you want (the online address for your website), setting up hosting for the site and building it out, which can be done by installing the ever popular WordPress templates.

Did your web design company or person leave you hanging?

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I often get new business from very frustrated website owners who have basically been abandoned by the person or company they hired to help then with their website. Sometimes their websites are half finished on a test site and the person seems to have mysteriously disappeared or stopped answering their phone. Other larger companies who offer website design, farm out the work, and slap the site up, but give no help or direction to the poor website owner. Often the reason for this is they are not actually doing the work themselves. I recently had a client who came to me with that very situation. Their website was up, but it had no keywords, tags, or any kind of the most basic SEO done. The client was more than willing to do it themselves, but the company insisted she needed to pay their “SEO dept”, once again most likely contracted out, or farmed out for the help. I have always cautioned clients about paying for SEO services. It is an area full of people who failed at other get rich quick schemes. Remember a few years ago when you would get all those invites in the mail for “free […]

WordPress and Self Publishing Bootcamp Schedule

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To see more details on either session you can visit: WordPress Bootcamp Sept 8th, San Domenico School, San Anselmo, Ca Oct 13th, 2014-Stanford University, Ca Nov 10th, 2012- Mills College, Oakland Self Publishing Bootcamp/Both Classes Sept 8th, San Domenico School, San Anselmo, Ca Oct 13th, 2014-Stanford University, Ca Nov 10th, 2012- Mills College, Oakland

Letting WordPress Provide the Solution to Your Blog and Website Needs

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Discoverability. It’s the most important word for an aspiring author to know and to master. The Internet is where everyone and everything gets found today. If someone searching for you, your book or subjects related to your book can’t find you on the Internet, you will remain obscure. Unknown. That’s not what any aspiring author wants. That’s not what a publisher wants in a writer. The fact that you can’t be found on line when someone searches for you, that you and your book aren’t discoverable, can feel pretty overwhelming, especially if you want to sell books to readers or to publishers. Yet, so many writers fail to develop an online presence. They don’t want to create a blog or a website, both of which provide them with a way to be easily found on the Internet. Why don’t they do so? Because it feels hard. It’s out of the realm of writing. It’s techy and unfamiliar. The task feels overwhelming. Creating an online presence with a blog doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. Today, my webmaster and blogmaster, Linda Lee, offers a few basic tips on how to begin a blog, or a blog website, in a way that will […]