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Wordpress

Advice regarding dreamweaver vs. wordpress?

I need some advice. I have been designing my site with dreamweaver for 1.5 years. I’ve noticed many other successful blog / site owners use wordpress. I recently had to try wordpress for someone I work for, uploading all his articles onto his blog. It is very easy, organized, and much easier to use than dreamweaver… but doesn’t look as good (not professional looking) and is far too common. I don’t think you can put google ads or other ads where you want either (like in the header image, etc.)

In my opinion, both have benefits, but the more successful people I know that blog seem to use wordpress (shoemoney.com, entrepreneurs-journey.com, johnchow.com, whateverlife.com, etc.)

Does anyone have a preference for dreamweaver/ original well-designed html websites, or wordpress? Are wordpress blogs / sites really that much easier to make successful?

Themes

Creating a WordPress Theme

What goes into Creating a WordPress Theme? After making a WordPress Blog you want to know how to create a WordPress Theme. You’ll find out in this video tutorial. I’ll also show you how to: Set up a Blank Theme Place a Search Form Where you Want Create a WordPress 3.0 Horizontal Menu Place a Featured Banner Where you Want Create 2 Sidebars Display Recent Posts with Excerpts Pull Articles from RSS Feeds Dynamically Create Subscription Links to your Feed, Twitter and Facebook Set up a Dynamic Footer Code is Here: goo.gl

Plugins

Top WordPress Plugins Overview Part 1

gregguide.com Let’s talk about some of the top WordPress plugins. Addthis social bookmarking widget is a great social networking tool that allows your users to share your WebPages on sites like facebook and twitter. For you blogs advertising I would recommend that you go with Ad Injection, this advertising manager will allow you to post any type of ads on your site. It could be Google ads, click bank ads, commission junction ads or you own email forms from acajoom, phplist, aweber, icontact, or get response. Ad Injector also allows you to place these ads anywhere on your site. pcfix411.com

Plugins

Using plugins in WordPress?

I am trying to learn WordPress and have got most of it down, but I am trying to implement a slideshow. This one to be exact http://www.daniellanger.com/blog/simple-slideshow/

How do I go about doing this? Here is my site. Sorry if it looks horrid. www.SandStormPCRepair.com/wp

Themes

What are some good wordpress themes/plugins that allow you to manipulate design?

I want to be able to customize a wordpress themes to make them look a bit more origional. I know you can change the colors, etc. But i want to be able to change the size of the boxes and such. I like iblog and am looking for something similar but the free version is very limited and i cant afford to buy the full version. Does anyone know of any good free themes to install?