BLOG DESIGN JOURNAL

The bestselling guide to WordPress, fully updated to help you get your blog going!Millions of bloggers rely on WordPress, the popular, free blogging platform. This guide covers all the features and improvements in the most up-to-date version of WordPress. Whether you are switching to WordPress from another blogging platform or just starting your first blog, you’ll find the advice in this friendly guide gets you up to speed on both the free-hosted WordPress.com version and WordPress.org, which

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Other WordPress books on the market discuss WordPress only in the context of blogging: how to set up a blog, how to write a blog, how to optimize a business blog. A few books offer detailed technical instructions on a specific aspect of the software, such as plugin or theme development. Beginning WordPress is the first to discuss WordPress as a general content management system that can compete with other popular open source projects like Joomla or Drupal. This book also aims to be one of the

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Wicked WordPress Themes is a step-by-step guide to creating beautiful themes for the world’s most popular CMS, WordPress. By following the book’s advice, readers can produce designs that are aesthetically stunning, consistent, and for-purpose -whether it’s for their own use, or to drive a high price on the theme marketplace. All facets of theme design are covered: from design, coding, and deployment, to ensuring readers’ designs are ready-to-go as soon as they’re installed. Wicked WordPress

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Blogging began as a simple way to express oneself on line, to share thoughts and ideas. How times have changed!

Bloggers started accepting ads and sponsorships and putting links in their posts to products for which they received commissions for sales made through their links, and so on. Blogs evolved into money-makers.

What we now refer to as a blog is often a commercial website that just happens to be in a blog format or built with a blogging content management system, such as WordPress. Blog design has changed, for sure. And the laws affecting blogs have also changed.

When you sell goods or services through your blog, even when you just link to other companies’s sales pages in hopes of receiving commissions on sales, you move into different territory. You enter ecommerce. And not everyone involved in ecommerce is honest.

As ecommerce booms on the Web, the U.S. government is taking a closer look and tightening regulations. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has tightened regulations to prevent phishing and other scams and to limit claims made by online merchants to those that can be proven.

The laws governing doing business on line can be extremely confusing and sometimes highly technical. The average general attorney is usually not familiar enough with Internet law, intellectual property law, and web technology to advise bloggers and blog designers to keep them out of trouble with the FTC or to keep them from getting sued by other Internet businesses.

I found that out the hard way when a larger company demanded I give them my company’s domain name in 2000. Their lawyer made all kinds of threats, and I hired a general attorney recommended by a friend. Big mistake. My lawyer knew much less about intellectual property law than I did, and she tried to browbeat me into selling my valuable domain name cheap—because she would get a share of the proceeds.

We recommend getting in touch with an international e-commerce law firm and becoming familiar with what they offer and what they recommend that you do to stay safe—before you need them.

Because when the unthinkable happens, you will be glad you made that connection in advance.

Are you ready to create a WordPress website in 7 Days or Less? This report is broken up into seven pieces that you can do all at once or over the course of seven days. There is no reason why you can’t go from complete beginner to website owner in very short time, even if you’ve never built a website in your life!I’ve been told time and time again that I make things easy to understand and easy to take action on. I hope you’ll find this true as you go through this

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Smashing WordPress shows you how to utilize the power of the WordPress platform, and provides a creative spark to help you build WordPress-powered sites that go beyond the obvious. The second edition of Smashing WordPress has been updated for WordPress 3.1+, which includes internal, custom post types, the admin bar, and lots of other useful new features. You will learn the core concepts used to post types, the admin bar, and lots of other useful new features. You will learn the core concepts

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A convenient how-to guide for maximizing your WordPress experienceWordPress is a state-of-the-art blog publishing platform with nearly ten million active installations. Eight minibooks provide you with expanded coverage of the most important topics to the WordPress community, such as WordPress basics, theme designs, plug-in development, social media integration, SEO, customization, and running multiple sites. Veteran author Lisa Sabin-Wilson leads an authoritative team of authors who offer

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