http://www.empoweredbywordpress.com Powered by you... Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:51:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, you've armed yourself with knowledge about Web 2.0 and social media, and now you're really ready to tap into the power of the new, social Web? If you've decided to build your own Web 2.0 and social media optimized Web site to that end, here are a few steps ... http://www.empoweredbywordpress.com/2008/04/11/building-a-web-20-and-social-media-optimized-site-with-wordpress/ Sorry to be so long continuing this blog, but there has been much to do. Since the last post, we have built several more newsrooms. Two for authors Owen Egerton and Joe O'Connell; one for improv guru and author, Les McGehee; and another for Accolades Public Relations. As Christine so ... http://www.empoweredbywordpress.com/2007/12/21/creating-scrollable-content-boxes-in-wordpress/ Yes, folks, I have taken a bit of a side trip on documenting the birth of Kelley's WordPress site; but the resulting product was well worth it, as you will see. While building Kelley's site, she directed me to SHIFT Communication's Social Media Newsroom (SMNR) template, saying “Hey, wouldn't it be ... http://www.empoweredbywordpress.com/2007/06/03/building-a-social-media-newsroom/ Customizing Colors Kelley's site has come leaps and bounds from where I left off last; but I don't want us to get ahead of ourselves. So I want to explain how I got from the before to the after in the last post. Here is a list of the main changes to ... http://www.empoweredbywordpress.com/2007/05/21/birth-of-a-wordpress-site-part-five/ Kelley's sheep-theme turned out to be the perfect choice for her - even though it was difficult for me to see at first. Kelley already had a good idea of what she wanted as far as visuals and functionality, so integrating her ideas into the theme went pretty smoothly. Here is ... http://www.empoweredbywordpress.com/2007/05/07/birth-of-a-wordpress-site-part-four/ Step Three: Installing WordPress Yes, this could have easily been step two, but I figure having a theme picked out, and a vision of what your site will be at the end, will be good for you to have through this more technical portion of the tutorial. Kelley's site is set up ... http://www.empoweredbywordpress.com/2007/04/24/birth-of-a-wordpress-site-part-three/ Step Two: Choosing a WordPress Theme A WordPress theme is a template of sorts that contains design elements and other code that determines the look and feel of your WordPress site. For a much more detailed explanation of WordPress themes, go to the WordPress Codex. My purpose, here, is to empower ... http://www.empoweredbywordpress.com/2007/04/23/birth-of-a-wordpress-site-part-two/ As an addendum to the previous post on the anatomy of a WordPress site, I wanted to mention a new feature of WordPress 2.1. Choosing your Front or "Home" page. WordPress 2.1 now allows you to choose any of your "static" pages as your home page. So that ... http://www.empoweredbywordpress.com/2007/04/21/having-a-static-home-page-wordpress-21/ Before we continue documenting the birth of Kelley's site, I feel I need to define some terminology, and try to explain the “anatomy” of a WordPress site. First of all, let me mention that the folks over at WordPress already do a smashing job of explaining their software. If you have experience ... http://www.empoweredbywordpress.com/2007/04/20/the-basic-anatomy-of-a-wordpress-site/ OK, time to get our hands dirty! Let's create an empowered site. About a month ago I met with a local publicist named Kelley Burrus. She came recommended to me for my publishing company, Dalton Publishing. Kelley was shocked to learn that I build all of my author's Websites as a ... http://www.empoweredbywordpress.com/2007/04/18/birth-of-a-wordpress-site-part-one/