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Keeping it simple, without the hype. PC tips and Internet advice for mom and pop businesses.
Keeping it simple, without the hype. PC tips and Internet advice for mom and pop businesses.
It’s pretty easy to install a WordPress blog these days, particularly if you have Fantastico in your control panel of your hosted site. Through control panel, you can have your blog installed within minutes. With WordPress’ easy-to-use plugin and template functions in the administration panel, you’ll have all of the plugins and free templates you want, installed with just a few clicks.
I have to say, WordPress has become so user-friendly that it’s rare that I use HTML programming any more.
With all the freebies out there, why bother buying blog templates?
If you install a free template (and there are many good ones), it takes a bit of skill to modify the template to suit your needs. For instance, you might want to change the font, add some banner advertising, and so forth so that your site does not look like everyone else’s blog that is using the same theme. A lot of times, I find the fonts that come with free templates difficult to read and generally spend time changing them.
These edits can be done from the “Editor” function of your Appearances menu, which gives you access to the CSS stylesheet and the individual pages. If you know what you are doing, it is not too hard to do … but it can be time consuming.
For those who are either not technical or who don’t want to spend a lot of time messing around with templates, Affiliate Themes is a fantastic resource. I’ve been using it over the last week and am thrilled with how easy it is to use.
Once you’ve installed the template software, you can access a dashboard that lets you configure the layout, fonts, header, and just about anything that can be edited to create your own unique blog appearance.
There are six basic layouts that come with the theme, all of which you can change to your liking on the fly. If you are selling affiliate products, the template comes with landing page style front pages as well as review pages.
I found Affiliate Themes to be well worth every cent simply for the time it has saved me. It comes highly recommended by John Reece, John Chow and other successful affiliate marketers.
Which brings me to my next point.
Not only is Affiliate Themes a blogging template, but with your membership you receive some excellent affiliate marketing training materials from the experts who are making tons of money online. I personally like to listen to podcasts while I work, and the ones that are available in the Affiliate Themes’ resource center are awesome.
Sign up for their newsletter because they send a special code that will give you a 15% discount. The video on that page gives a nice overview of what you can expect with the theme.
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I\’ve been following your blogs for a while now and this is honestly one of the best I\’ve read. Its a simple and organised blog. Thank you for sharing this with us.
I am fan of wordpress script, I used for many websites, got many experience by using the script in different manners for different web themes even with templates. It is the best script to use fast and easy.
This could save me a lot of time. I have a couple favorite themes but I like to manually tweak it so that costs me about 30 minutes per site installation.
Time is money!
When I used a free template in my Blog, I found it takes some skill to modify exactly as I want it to be. I found the \"Affiliate Themes\" some time ago, and it is much easier way. Great way to save the time and effort.
Thanks!