22. Making your Website Live Watch my video below on how to make your website live along with some other last and final tips for designing and configuring your WordPress website. Steps on making your website live: This is the most exciting part of building a website! Go to your settings / maintenance mode / disable the maintenance mode option. If you ever wish to put it back to maintenance mode, just enable the option again and make sure that your comingsoon.html file is still intact on your server. That's it! you are all done! Hope you enjoyed my little [...]

21. Avada Theme Customization Watch my video below on how to basically customize the Avada Theme. To purchase the Avada Theme, go to Themeforest and search for Avada. What I love about this theme is that it has alot of features and you can configure your website in any way that you want. Table of Contents HTML Tags 101 Making your Website Live

20. HTML Tags 101 View my video below on HTML Tags 101. Download HTML Tags If you are using a WordPress theme, most of the style settings will be coded in the CSS Stylesheet, so any attributes you place within your page may not work. However, within the page or posts, some basic HTML tags will work. When using HTML tags, you must open the tag with a <> and close with a </>. There are some tags that are an exception to this rule. See below for a list of simple tags. To insert these HTML tags, [...]

19. How to Create the Home and Blog Page Watch my video below to see how I create the home and blog page. How to assign your website's Home Page and Blog Page Go into your Pages and create a Home Page. Go into your Pages and create a Blog Page. Go into your Settings / Reading. Make sure that the "A Static Page (select below)" is checkmarked. Assigned the Front Page to be "Home". Assign the Posts Page to be "Blog". Save Changes Go to Appearance / Menus and add the Home (if not already there) and the Blog to the menu. [...]

18. How to Create a Favicon Watch my video below to see how to create and install a Favicon. What is a Favicon? A Fav Icon is the little icon that appears on the top of the browser beside the address bar or browser tabs. Make a square version of your logo. Go to: http://www.favicon.cc Click "Import Image", "Choose File", and select "Shrink to Square Icon". Fav Icon will generate a 16 px by 16 px rendering of your square image in a blown up format. Using the preview window below, you will be able to see what it looks like in [...]

17. How to Install a WordPress Widget Watch my video below to see how I install a WordPress Widget. What is a WordPress Widget? WordPress Widgets perform functions on sidebars or pages. Usually, they are an extension of a plugin, or you can added snippets of code to make them function. An example would be a stats counter widget or a mail opt-in form widget. Table of Contents How to Use the Contact Form 7 Plugin How to Create a Favicon

16. How to Use the Contact Form 7 Plugin Watch my video below to see how I build a custom form with the Contact Form 7 Plugin. Most themes nowadays comes with a built in Contact Form. Usually this is in the default Contact Page. If your theme doesn't have this option, then the Contact Form 7 Plugin is a perfection option. Contact Form 7 does way more than just a contact form. If you want to build a custom online order form with all the bells and whistles, no matter how complex, or anything that requires you to pull information from the user, then use [...]

15. How to Use the WP Google Fonts Plugin Watch my video below to see how to use the WP Google Fonts Plugin. Google Fonts is a free directory of fonts that you can use for your website. Fortunately for the Avada Theme, it comes built in with Font Options, however if you have a theme that doesn’t have this feature, Google Fonts is a good fix for that. Download the WP Google Fonts Plugin and activate it. Go to to www.google.com/fonts Pick a font that you like. Go back to the WP Google Fonts Plugin, search for your desired [...]

14. How to Create a Splash Page with the CGC Maintenance Plugin Watch my video below to see how I create a Splash Page with the CGC Maintenance Plugin. What is a splash page? Basically, it’s a page that you put up while you are working on your website in the background so users don’t see an ugly “park” page. There are hundreds of themes out there that offer beautiful landing pages like this one, or this one, but if you want to learn how to create a really simple splash page from scratch using HTML, and are not bothered by [...]

13. How to Install a WordPress Plugin Watch my video below to see how I install plugins in WordPress. What is a WordPress plugin? Well, imagine plugins as apps for your phone.  They each serve a function, whatever it may be. There are thousands of WordPress plugins available on the market. If you want to have a analytics, a Twitter feed, a Facebook like button, a gallery widget, SEO functionality, or a mail opt in form, you are covered. All these plugins are developed by third parties. Just like any software developed by others, make sure you read the reviews [...]