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Internet Marketing: Installing Your Theme On Your Wordpress Blog

You want to unzip the theme that you downloaded from the Wordpress theme catalog (sometimes referred to as the them viewer). This folder has to be unzipped. The way to unzip the theme is to right-click the theme folder and choose “extract all”.  Then you have to FTP all the files from your computer to your server.  When you connect to the FTP server of your web site, you will find that there is a folder that says “Wpcontent”. Within that folder, there is a folder called “Themes”. There will already be two themes in there: “Default” and “classic”. Now, just  upload the entire folder that you unipped to this directory. You need to be sure that you upload the entire folder.

When you have finished uploading, go back and log into your blog, and find the “design” or “Appearance” tab and choose themes sub tab. Now just select the theme  that you want and choose to activate the theme. It is that simple. Just go back to the blog, hit “refresh” (or F5) and you will see the theme now on your blog.

Whew!

It is a lot harder than you think it is, at least it reads as more difficult.

Tomorrow, let’s discuss posting to your blog. Have a GREAT day!

Tags: blog, blog themes

Internet Marketing: Zzzzzzziiiiiiiiiipppppppppppp!

When you download your theme from http://themes.wordpress.net it will be in a compressed file. You can go to Google and type in “zip file” in the search field and get the software for unzipping files, if it isn’t already loaded onto your computer. The whole premise of zip files is to be able to sent large packets of information in a relatively short amount of time. Once you have your file unzipped.

I find that having Win-Zip software has allowed me to download programs, e-books, music…all sorts of files without spending an exhorbitant amount of time online to do so. There is another step that is necessary, but let’s save it for another day. The important thing is to “un-zip” your theme onto your hard drive. Make sure that you name the folder in an easy-t0-find location.  If you are walking into the middle of this, go back to earlier post and you can catch yourself up to speed.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: blog installation

Internet Marketing - Finding a Theme For Your Wordpress Blog

In the early days of the Internet, blogs and discussions were text only and that was in just the standard green and black of the CRT. Boring by today’s standards, especially with the increase use of video, music, and graphics. You want a theme that is all about your product. Don’t make it too “busy” because people will be less likely to follow the content of your blog. Your blog needs to be a source of information to which people will return again and again to find that trusted information. When they trust you enough, they will reward you by referring others to your site and by purchasing things.

Just don’t choose the standard setting because some services consider it to be a spam blog  or “Splog”. You can get some excellent themes for your blog by going to the following site:  http://themes.wordpress.net. When you first arrive you will be given over 900 themes from which to choose. It is advised to use a theme with two columns. More than two columns can be distracting for the reader. You can choose whatever color you like, but keep in mind that black with white text doesn’t work well on all computers, and you will lose readers if you choose that color scheme.

You also have a choice on whether you want a fixed width or not. Choose the fixed width. Have consistency in your blog and people will consistently visit. The nice thing is that if you don’t like how a blog is working out for your, you can always change it. You will choose a theme and download it to your local hard drive. Tomorrow we will look at how to install this theme.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: blog, blog installation