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Optimize Your Page for the iPad in Thesis

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A member noticed recently that her site looks great in regular browsers but that it doesn’t look so hot on an iPad.  She discovered that in order for it to look right on the iPad it didn’t look right in regular browsers.  Perhaps the easiest way to address this is to add a new style [...]

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Member’s E-Commerce Catalog Critique

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One of our members asked for critiques on her completed catalog page on her new e-commerce website.  She has been following the lessons in the Build an E-Commerce Website tutorial series.  I thought that this would be a good opportunity to both provide my own advice and to demonstrate how to use Firebug and Web [...]

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How To Add A Link In A Post That Opens In A New Window

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Someone on the BYOB Forum asked how to create a text link in a post or page that opens in a new window. In HTML speak this is called adding a target to an a tag. This is a very easy HTML function to use. In this video I demonstrate how to use the add [...]

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How to Use the Thesis 301 Redirect Feature for Pages

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Twice this week I’ve been asked on the phone how to use the 301 Page Redirect Feature that was introduced in Thesis 1.7.  The 301 Page Redirect is a very handy tool for adding off-site links to the navigation bar – among other things.  I show you how to use it in this video and [...]

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How to Manually Backup and Restore your WordPress Database Using phpMyAdmin

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A member asked today how to backup and restore his database.  I suggested that he watch the videos in Lesson 14 of the Start Building Your Website Here tutorial series.  In those videos I demonstrate a couple of different methods of backing up both your site files and your databases.  He said that he had [...]

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How to Add Image Links in a Text Widget

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In a recent forum post a member asked how to insert an image link into their site using a text widget. The Forum question is entitled “Linking Images”. In the video below I demonstrate how to do this.  This answer is an extension of a video tutorial in Lesson 9, Part 3 of  the “Start Building [...]

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How to use Firebug to identify the line-height property of a Tag Cloud widget in Thesis

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In a recent forum post a member asked how to use FireBug to identify the line-height property of the tag links in a tag cloud widget. In this video answer I show how to use FireBug and Web Developer to identify and alter that property. The Forum question is entitled “Widget Customization”. How to Use [...]

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