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(Updated: March 4, 2012)  I’ve had many requests for info on how I got this blog looking so great. So thanks for your comments and here is a sampling of what you need to know to set you on the right track.

I found this blog template … Flexx from “iThemes”…  and purchased it for $79. The cost has come down now and you can purchase all 18 themes for $97. The company is now iThemes Builder … 2 template systems which are from the same company giving us phenomenal WP templates (and training) for a great price.

They are always having sales, which is how I purchased the rest of their stuff … especially good for website designers! I recommend you check out their website and listen to some of the videos before deciding which Theme to go with. You can also easily update your site to a Builder Theme if you already have iThemes in use but you cannot mix the 2 themes, something it took me awhile to realize. They have lots of videos to help you and many of their old videos are now being updated, thank goodness (earlier, I wasted a lot of time trying to find what I needed)!

Here is the place to start:  www.iThemes.com

Good luck.

 

 

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Sep
06

Google, RSS, SEO, Keywords …

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Thanks to everyone for your support, nice comments and suggestions, I know some of the (suggestions) posts can be classed as spam and I deleted them but not before copying so I can remember them while not inflicting them on the rest of you :)   Google Adwords, I don’t think I’m going to touch (been there, done that – too time consuming & potentially costly etc). Now don’t everyone write to me about how easy it is please …; RSS – oneday soon; SEO (see below); and Keywords (I’m trying, but selling fiction books is such a competitive subject). Keywords are almost a lost cause in that area but I am working on other strategies … brain works very slow on this sort of info tho so suggestion could be useful!!

I seem to have been forgetting that my focus here is to sell books, so if you haven’t discovered our fabulous novels, which are amazingly read by all ages, it’s time that you did. Our books became popular because of word-of-mouth beginning in Dec. 1998 and people come to Victoria, BC to meet my husband because their neighbour loved our books or they were coming to Victoria and their aunt said to look for him in Bastion Square. Yup, it happens all the time. Go to the tabs at the top of the page and discover Robert’s books … and they are ebooks, too! Kindle, Kobo, Sony, Barnes & Noble, iPad, and Smashwords (the latter has all formats). My next post will give more info on the style my husband, J. Robert Whittle, uses and which I follow in my editing and writing because it has been so successful … and because he won’t let me do anything else!! Hey, I thought I was the boss :)

Ok, that was the plug, now briefly back to what I’m doing on this blog … I discovered Builder Child Themes last night and as I had already purchased it last week, I am eager to get a new page up using this great new tool.

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It makes the page look classier and has a lot more, and very cool, options.

I also see that SEO can now be automated. I think I will definitely do that but not for awhile … one thing at a time. My gosh things have changed so much over the past few years (when I was too busy to even consider implementing all the new online programs). One has to be very careful how they spend their money here … I thought I was heading for retirement but now not so sure!! Back to work!

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Sep
04

Gardening and iThemes do they really mix?

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Yes, I did get my gardening done thanks to the help of my very dear daughter-in-law who loves gardening but only has a few plants on her patio. We worked hard and had fun doing it, too. Today I am indoors still trying to sort out this blog and catch up on so many other things. I hope to have these blog posts show up on the Home Pg eventually, I still have to figure that part out with this iThemes format but I’m very proud of what I have managed by myself. Now if I can just remember it all for the next time I work on it. If I leave it a few days or more it does require a lot of brain power to recall the order of instruction!

Oh yes, and I am also trying to get this RSS feed

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to work too. RSS is a mystery to me as I have never used it in any shape or form. Ah, the learning curve continues :)

 

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Joyce Sandilands
Whitlands Publishing
Victoria, BC
Tel: 250-477-0192
http://www.joycesandilands.com/contact-me/