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There are many different ways you can set WordPress up to display the content you have, the way you want it seen.  Using WordPress you display your website content as “pages” and “posts”.

Pages contain information that you want displayed on your site such as an “About Us” page and “Contact Info”.   Any other standard information, photo galleries, contact forms, or event listings can be a fixed page on your website. Pages are displayed on a menu bar or in your sidebar.

Posts are your news articles, announcements or blog posts.  Posts can be assigned catagories and tags so they can be displayed in a sorted fashion.  Posts are what normally get displayed on the home page but you can set your WordPress site up to have a fixed page as your home page and a seperate page to display your news or blog.

We’ve included a video we found on YouTube that gets into WordPress Pages and thought we’d post it here.  Click the article title above to view the post page with the video. We also have another article on this subject we posted a ways back that you might want to also check out.

When you use WordPress or when we build you a site with WordPress you have many options!

We add the Featured Content Gallery to peoples themes now and then and have to explain to them that adding the code is the easy part.  For every post displayed in the Gallery you need a nice, proper sized picture that you save in the WP media gallery.  You Upload the picture, highlight and copy the url to that image to the clipboard.  Then add a custom field to your post called “articleimg” and paste the url to your picture in.  You need at least 2 posts set up to be displayed for the Featured Gallery to work.  You can select a specific category for the display or specific posts by number.  We usually go with a category and just assign those posts to that extra category.  Then you can always remove that category from the post and it won’t display anymore.   The configuration page for the plugin has many options that have to be set up such as picture size and display options.  Also color selections of the data bar and text that gets displayed.  It takes a little doing but when finally setup it can be used to give your blog or website a real magazine or news site look.  It takes a little planning and photo editing skills beyond dropping the code into a page template.

Check out the MiniMag Demo Page for ideas.

WordPress makes a perfect website for Teachers.  They can easily post Homework Assignments, and Class News.  They can have parent areas and private pages, and contact forms.  Plus fun stuff like picture galleries and slideshows.  Links to school services can also be displayed.  It helps keep parents involved by giving them access to class activities.  Contact Us and we’ll put a professional website up for you at a very reasonable price.   The recommended hosting account is $80 a year and the domain name is $10.  So thats $90 a year.   You can use one of our free WordPress Theme Designs or let us make you  a custom designed WordPress website for as little as $50.  More features then the Template Websites available that have a monthly fee and much  more personalized.

Our Website Hosting service makes it simple for anyone that wants to totally control their own web presence.  You can create your own email addresses, databases, ftp accounts and more.  (Click for demo) Accounts also include one click installs on lots of applications including WordPress.  Now if you’re not one that wants to dig into all that and you want someone to set it all up for you, contact us and we’ll take care of it.  Contact us today for a very reasonable quote on a WordPress driven website with features like contact forms, event listings, photo galleries and slideshows and more.  You can have your own website online in no time at all.

Pictures and graphics are one of the things people want on their websites the most.  With our WordPress Websites we use the NextGen Gallery Plugin to create nice presentations.  This great plugin lets you have photo galleries and then display them in posts or pages.  You can display a gallery of thumbnails or a slideshow.  You can use the individual photos in posts and pages also.  All your photos can be stored away in galleries and albums so they are ready for use on your site any time.   Totally integrated into your dashboard editor and all you do is select what you want.  A little companion program is NextGen Smooth Gallery that lets you put a gallery slide show with different options in pages or posts also using simple short code.

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