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Meet the author:
Jill Olkoski

Jill has a MA in Clinical Psychology, a BS in Computer Science, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering.

She currently owns Aldebaran Web Design in Edmonds (near Seattle WA) and enjoys educating her clients on topics related to small business website design.

In Jill's previous life, she spent 17 years in the engineering and quality organizations of a Fortune 100 tech company.

 


Adding On-Page Anchors in WebYep

April 8th, 2008

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If you’ve got a page in WebYep that’s got a large amount of content, you may want to help your visitors get quickly to the section they’re interested in. In order to do this, you need to add an “anchor” to the section you want them directed to, and you need to add a “link” to the anchor at the top of the page. This tutorial assumes you have WebYep installed and have a “Rich Text” element already configured on your page.
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Pasting into WebYep - Avoiding Unexpected Results

April 2nd, 2008

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WebYep is a great content management tool, but sometimes clients get unexpected results when they copy and paste content from other applications, like Word. (Other applications like WordPress Blogs behave the same way). If you’re composing in the WebYep window, you most likely won’t have any issues, but if you try to copy and paste content, like text, from other word processing applications, or even from your internet browser window, you might run into issues.
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How To Add A Category in an ECT Online Store

March 29th, 2008

Adding a new category to your ECT online store is easy to accomplish. This video tutorial will show you how.
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ECT Online Store Tour - Store Owner Perspective

March 29th, 2008

Adding an online store to your website can dramatically increase sales, but it’s important that you understand HOW to run your online store BEFORE you select which one to purchase. This is a tour inside the store owner administrative area of the eCommerceTemplates (ECT) store, my favorite online store software application.
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ECT Online Store Tour - Getting The Customer’s Perspective

March 29th, 2008

If you’re shopping for an online store, it’s important to become familiar with the particular online store application before you make your purchase decision. Online stores vary significantly, and I’ve made this video tutorial to give you a quick overview of my favorite online store: eCommerceTemplates (or “ECT”).
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How To Add A PayPal Buy Now Button

March 29th, 2008

If you only need to sell a few items from your website or collect different sums of money (like I do on my payment page) you could use a PayPal Buy Now Button to accomplish this. You’ll need to have already set up a PayPal Business/Merchant Account before watching this tutorial video.
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How To Add A Product To Your ECT (ECommerce Templates) Online Store

March 26th, 2008

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This video shows you how to add a product to your eCommerce Templates (ECT) online store. It assumes that you already have categories set up. If you don’t have categories set up, please watch that video first before you try to upload products, because you will want to put them into categories.

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What Is The Best Font For Your Website?

March 24th, 2008

There are many decisions a new website owner must make, and one of them is selecting a font for the content of their website. Often clients ask me to try out different fonts to see how they look. I’ve now made this process easier by creating my very own font-selection tool.
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Converting Blogger to WordPress

March 16th, 2008

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This article contains instructions on how to convert a Blogger Blog into a WordPress Blog. It assumes that you have a Blogger account that uses Gmail, and that you already have WordPress fully installed on your own domain. It also assumes that you know how to use a .htaccess file accomplish page to page redirection. (If this sounds like gibberish and you would like me to do the conversion for you, please contact me.)

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Pasting From Word Into WordPress Without Messing Up Your Blog’s Formatting

March 16th, 2008

wordpress-logo-small.gifPerhaps you like to write your blog articles in Word or received articles from other that are in Word. You have been simply copy and pasting from Word into WordPress, and wondering why the font and style of text doesn’t match some of your other blog articles.
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