WordPress for Beginners Lesson 1

This video will give a basic overview of the WordPress dashboard including how to do a post and a page as well as plugins.

U-design WordPress Theme

U-Design is a very powerful theme which suits both, users with no programming background as well as advanced developers. It will help you build your site in no time to your liking with minimal effort. It empowers you to set any color to elements such as backgrounds, links, text, menu links, etc. You can completely change the look and feel of your site in seconds. You can also choose from over 200 fonts, including Google Font Directory and Cufón fonts. This number will grow with time since many new fonts are being added to the Google fonts library. The theme also features 6 (six) Home page sliders for you to choose from.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has been made a priority when designing the U-Design theme. In the code hierarchy, the main content block is placed before the sidebar regardless of the sidebar position, so it is crawled first by search engines. Another very powerful SEO feature has been implemented regarding Heading (h1, h2, h3,…) tags in that on the Home page the ‘h1’ tag is assigned to the site name and the rest of pages/posts/archives etc., the main Title has been assigned an ‘h1’ tag.

U-Design Template makes it easy to create a World class website with a unique style and clear focused message…
Six Home Page Sliders

You will be able to upload and reorder slider images in the theme’s options page.
Flashmo Grid Slider – Features beautiful transition effects. The slider can be configured entirely through the theme’s backend option’s page, no need to deal with any code or xml files. Very easy and convenient interface to control this beautiful slider.
Piecemaker Flash Slider – Customize every aspect of the slider through the theme’s options page, including being able to upload the slider images, re-order the slides (drag-and-drop), delete slides, choose from 40 different tween types, etc.
Piecemaker 2 Flash Slider – Similar to the Piecemaker slider with the exception that now you can add Flash and Video slides as well as unlimited number of transitions.
jQuery Cycle Slider Full Width Image – Slide controls available: pause, resume, jump to a specific slide. Choose from 28 transition effects that could be assigned independently to each slide. Slide link with the option to open in current or new window. Also remove the 3D shadow option is available.
jQuery Cycle Slider With an Image, Text and Button – Slide controls available: pause, resume, jump to a specific slide. Choose from 28 transition effects that could be assigned independently to each slide. Link button auto generated with the option to open the link in current or new window. Also remove the 3D shadow option is available.
jQuery Cycle Slider With sliding Images and Sliding Text – Slide controls available: pause, resume, jump to a specific slide. The practical aspect of this slider is that it allows you to create dynamic interactive look of three sliding layers.
An additional “No slider” option has been added with the ability to add custom text in the place of the slider
Choosing Your Fonts & Colors:

Over 200 fonts offered (more info)
Unlimited combinations of colors (more info)
Background Images – You could also upload background images on per section bases instead of solid background color if you wish. (more info)
Custom Widgets:

U-Design: Recent Posts – Display the most recent posts with teaser text, author and date info (optional), you also have the option to offset the displayed recent posts from the most current one, use this to omit the first 2 or 3 latest posts for example. In addition to that the widget allows you to select a specific category and all its descendants respectively. Limit the number of words to show from each post. Auto generate thumbnails and optionally show thumbnail frame shadow. The Thumbnails can have any width or height. In addition I have provided a shortcode version of this widget so that it can be used anywhere in the content, not just widget areas. Here’s an example.
U-Design: Login Form – Displays a login in the sidebar. Users can login and logout directly from the sidebar without being redirected to the default WP login page.
U-Design: Custom Category widget – allows you to display a single category and all of its descendant categories respectively. This comes in handy for sections of the website such as the Portfolio or Blog/News, where you might want to narrow the categories displayed in the sidebar for the current section to be more relevant.
U-Design: Google Map – Copy and paste your Google map code to display a Google Map in the sidebar.
U-Design: Subpages – Displays a current pages’ children pages. The parent is displayed as the title. This widget is handy if you have a lot of pages that would normally take up too much room in the sidebar, so you could use this widget to display a much shorter version of the menu in the sidebar showing just the descendant pages of the current page.
Home page Columns with Widget Areas

There are 11 (eleven) widget areas. They are designed in a such a way to span the width of the page dynamically, e.g. if one column is deactivated, then the remaining columns will re-size to span the full width of the page, if let’s say only one column is active then it will span the full width of the page, etc.
Sidebar position

There are 12 (twelve) custom sidebars with positioning that could be set as left or right at any time from the theme’s Options page for each section (e.g. Blog, Contact page, Sitemap page, etc.) independently.
In the code hierarchy, the main content block is always placed before the sidebar regardless of the sidebar position, so it is crawled first by search engines.
Custom Sidebars

They go hand in hand with the available page templates (see below) and allow for customized look and feel for the various sections of the website. Available sidebars:
Portfolio section sidebar
Blog section sidebar
Contact page sidebar
Default page sidebar
Pages sidebar 2
Pages sidebar 3
Pages sidebar 4
Pages sidebar 5
Pages sidebar 6
Pages sidebar 7
Pages sidebar 8
Sitemap sidebar
Contact page

Pre-formatted Business Contact Fields – that could be entered directly from the theme’s Options page. This feature can be enabled/disabled from the Option’s page as well. The Business Contact Fields provide a way to better display additional contact information such as Company Name, Address, Phone, etc.
E-mail form:
Phone number validation (North America format) that could be enabled/disabled from the theme’s Options page (disabled by default).
Unobtrusive form validation (works with JavaScript ON or OFF )
The contact form offers ReCAPTCHA for extra security
Portfolio section

Unlimited Portfolio sections/pages.
You can choose from four layouts: one, two, three and four column
Auto generate portfolio thumbnails
You can add description to each portfolio item
Specify the number of items per page
Automatic pagination
Option to include/exclude date, post metadata and comments from the portfolio item’s individual post
Custom sidebar with widgets and sidebar position control for the portfolio item’s individual post
Galleries
Blog section

Blog section pages can have left, right or no sidebar (full-width) pages
Option to remove the sidebar from Blog, Archive and Single Post View pages independently
Option to set the post image/thumbnail dimensions (width and height) as well as the image alignment
Option to show or remove Post Tags and Author Name and to change the excerpt length
Typography

Refer to the Typography page for examples.
960 Grid system

This theme has been designed with the help of the 960-grid system – more info here
Unobtrusive Menu

Works if JavaScript is disabled. Multi-level deep support. You can enable menu’s auto arrows. Those are the arrows indicating a submenu. Also enable/disable drop shadows to the sub-menus.
Page Templates:

“Portfolio page 1 Column” template
“Portfolio page 2 Column” template
“Portfolio page 3 Column” template
“Portfolio page 4 Column” template
Blog page template
Contact page template
Full-width page template (no sidebar)
Sitemap page template
Default Template
Page Template 2
Page Template 3
Page Template 4
Page Template 5
Page Template 6
Page Template 7
Page Template 8
Archives
Translations

This theme is Internationalized (translation ready) – the theme has been updated to support translations in more than one language. We have included a (.pot file included to have the theme localized) Included Translations with the theme:
German Translation courtesy of Silvia
Italian Translation – courtesy Diego Meozzi – Cartabianca Publishing (www.cartabianca.com)
Spanish Translation – front end only (credits to argos)
Dutch Translation – front end only (credits to J.Q. Isidore, www.sketchesofeuphoria.nl)
Russian Translation courtesy of Marina Barayeva
French Translation courtesy of Suzanne Roy
Search Results Page

Highlighted searched term in search results.
Shortcodes

Refer to the Shortcodes page for examples.
Documentation

Help and extensive documentation is provided a click away with the theme’s options page

Wagga Radio

Recently we completed the new website for Wagga’s Life FM – Your choice for Wagga Radio. Wagga’s Life FM are a Christian radio station broadcasting to the Riverina area. They play uplifting music and Christian teaching and can be found at 101.9FM.

Check out the Life FM website at Wagga Radio

Facebook page – Oasis Family Church Wagga Wagga

Here is the Facebook page for Oasis Family Church Wagga Wagga that Wagga Web Design created.

Oasis Family Church Wagga Facebook page

Facebook page – Solution Focused Counselling

This is the Facebook page for Solution Focused Counselling a Wagga Wagga based counselling service.

Solution Focused Counselling Facebook page

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Review
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Product Description
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From the Back Cover

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Flashed Facebook Page

Show your presence on face book. Customize your facebook page to include slideshow, twitter updates, your work portfolio and a contact form.

Idea Facebook Page

This is a XML driven Template for Facebook Fan Page.
It’s not only supports background with 15 effect,slides with 13 effect,social button,about,services and php contact. You also can set logo/menu layout and site information/social layout.You can add any module into the template just through the xml file. It can also be used alone with the site’s framework.

as3.0
xml driven
customize style edit xml
support 15 kinds website background switch effect
support 13 kinds slide banner switch effect
support add social account
support add logo,site information
support add menu throught xml
support set switch module effects
support add any yourself module or swf or link
support change background image when change module
support background(jpg,png,gif,swf)
support “top”,”bottom” layout for logo and menu,more layouts set throught xml edit
logo /site information/social support ‘left’,’center’,’right’ layout
support set top/footer panel heigth, menu,logo,position and color,alpha
etc…