October 2008 Archives

$500 for a website at your own web address

By Gregg Davis on October 2, 2008 10:47 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
The Movable Type InterfaceBecause I can teach a few website owners at a time how to easily manage their websites, I can lower the price. I'll set your website up at my fast, reliable hosting data center, complete with everything you need to have a great site. You'll have the tools to:

  • log in and quickly update your site in minutes with new pictures, video, or text content
  • create and manage multiple email addresses at your own domain (anything@yourwebsite.com)
  • choose the look and feel of your site, include pictures, and choose the layout
  • learn to customize the site to fit your needs
  • manage your website's content through Movable Type Publishing Platform
  • set up blogs for your entire site or for specific topics

Keeping your content organized and findable

By Gregg Davis on October 2, 2008 10:49 PM | No Comments
The Server Control PanelThe power of the blogging software for managing the content on your site is in its ability to categorize and create navigation around the content as you input it. It organizes the information as you grow your website. It makes your site findable by your visitors as well as Google and the other search indexes.

Your site comes with everything you need:

  • Content Management Software: Movable Type Publishing Platform
  • Your domain name: www.yoursitename.com
  • Hosting included for the first year (hosting may be continued at $300/yr)
  • Server Control Panel for creating and managing email addresses

Local, personal support and instruction

By Gregg Davis on October 2, 2008 10:52 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Personalized teaching and reference videosYou'll also have access to support directly from me as you learn to manage your site and into the future as your site grows and gains visitors. I'll take you through my easy online course to get you started and continue to help you improve your website.

  • Online web lessons to teach you how to use your site.
  • The "webinars" are optional to attend live, and will be recorded for your reference later.
  • Help Desk ticketing system to stay in touch with me while you're learning
  • When you ask me a question I'll usually send you a "video tip" answering your question.

Website Management - Interface Tour

By Gregg Davis on October 20, 2008 8:35 AM | No Comments
video-thumb.gifThis video gives you a tour of the Movable Type Publishing Platform, and shows how it's interface relates to the different parts of a website. It shows you how to create content, organize it into categories, and begin to build a content-rich website easily. Movable Type organizes your content and creates logical navigation automatically. And it does it for you, as you create and upload you content.

Creating Website Pages and Navigation

By Gregg Davis on October 20, 2008 9:04 AM | No Comments
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This video will introduce you to creating static content pages on you website, as well as showing you how Movable Type creates and manages the navigation links among the different Pages and Entries on your website.

Placing images on your website

By Gregg Davis on October 20, 2008 9:08 AM | No Comments
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Placing images on your website is super easy. Plus, Movable Type organizes them into its Assets Manager, where you can access your images later and use them in different ways on your website. You'll want to be able to size your images to display appropriately to your website users.

Side Note: Check out this video for one way to easily resize images. Picasa is a free program that I highly recommend, available here from Google.

Navigation and Sidebar Content - Widgets

By Gregg Davis on October 20, 2008 9:17 AM | No Comments
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Here's a video about how to manage your site organization, the way your pages are linked, and how the program manages navigation links so your users can get around your site easily. The sidebars on the site contain items called "widgets" that are easily changeable so you can customize the way your users interact with your website.

Customizing the Homepage Content

By Gregg Davis on October 20, 2008 9:23 AM | No Comments
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You'll want to be in control of what parts of your content appear on the Homepage. This video shows you how to control your Homepage so that it always displays the content you choose.

Changing the Colors, Styles, Look of your website

By Gregg Davis on October 20, 2008 9:36 AM | No Comments
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This video shows you how to use the Styles Manager in Movable Type to easily change the colors, and the look and feel of your website. Since  your site is a database-driven website, meaning it keeps the content filed separately from the display information, you can easily change the look of your site without affecting your content or your navigation.
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