How to install and edit Astra Starter Sites on a new WordPress site
October 15, 2019
Astra starter sites are predesigned templates that you can import to your new WordPress site. I walk through how to choose, install and edit one quickly.
Astra starter sites are predesigned templates that you can import to your new WordPress site. I walk through how to choose, install and edit one quickly.
Wondering how to install install and configure Astra? Check out this post and video.
Your small business website probably has an about page, a services page, a contact page and maybe even a blog. You’re probably doing a lot of writing, but today I want to talk about the why and how of using video on your site.
One of the biggest challenges that small businesses face is content creation. Often, business owners don’t know what content they need on their site or how to write it. This easy-to-use framework will remove the guesswork and uncertainty so that you can finally finish your content.
MailerLite is my new favorite email marketing platform! Today I want to show you how to create an automated email sequence with MailerLite and add a sign up form to your WordPress website.
In my WordPress Pittsburgh presentation on email marketing, we discussed why businesses should use email marketing, choosing an email marketing platform, setting up your email marketing account, adding forms and popups to your website to get people on the list, when to email people and what to say and driving people back to your website.
Today we’re going to look at 29 different examples of sign up forms — forms asking a visitor to sign up for a newsletter or to receive a free resource. There’s a ton we can learn from these by looking at where they’re located, what they contain and what they promise.
Over the weekend I visited Spoonwood Brewing in the South Hills of Pittsburgh. As soon as I sat down, I noticed a call to action to sign up for their email list. I LOVE seeing email marketing in the wild. Let’s walk through each piece of the puzzle and I’ll show you how I think Spoonwood is doing everything right.
In my course at Westmoreland College on building a webpage with HTML and CSS, we selected a topic, wrote content, sketched a layout on paper, gathered images and built an awesome page! Here are the notes from the course.