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How to Read a Web Page Source File

In this session, we demonstrate how to read a web page source file. By right click on a page and selecting the “View Page Source” it will show the HTML view-source of the page. From the view-source you can tell if the site was constructed well or not or if it’s missing important elements but [...]

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How to Convert Tables Created in Word to Standards Compliant Markup

Learn how to convert Tables created in Word to standards compliant markup for your site. We show how to do this and then how to style the new text by adding HTML and CSS.

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Ways to Learn HTML and CSS

In this session a member asks about 4 programming languages: HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript and where to learn more about them. We recommend starting with HTML and CSS because you can’t learn CSS independently of HTML. Then we suggest an excellent resource for learning these along with our own Customize Thesis Like a Pro [...]

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How to Add HTML to Custom Post Meta in the Teaser Display

In this session, we demonstrate how to add HTML to custom post meta. We wrap each custom post meta in HTML in a PHP file. We finish by creating custom CSS to style the custom post meta for the new HTML classes we added.

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How to Convert Tables Created in Word to a Standard Compliant Markup – Part 2 – Style the New Text Markup

This is the second part of the series How to Convert Tables Created in Word to a Standard Compliant Markup. In this session we show how you can style the new text by adding HTML markup to the post and then add CSS code to finish the styling. Video Transcript Rick: And the way we [...]

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Introduction to Basic HTML Syntax

This member asks for a brief introduction to HTML and its basic syntax. I discuss what makes an HTML page, the HTML, head and body tags. Then I discuss the primary HTML elements, heading, paragraphs, lists, links, images, divs and others. Video Transcript Good evening everybody and welcome to the Wednesday evening live call in [...]

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How to Use Post Formats in Thesis Part 5 – Create a Quote Post Format

In this session we show how to use post formats in Thesis by adding Thesis HTML structures so that the styling will apply to it. We use the title for the author’s name and the content for the quotation.

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How to Create a 2 Column List in a Post or Page

This member asks how to create a 2 column list within the WordPress content area.  I demonstrate a method using 2 unordered lists each wrapped in a div tag that I style so that they float side by side.  This involves using the HTML view of the WordPress editor and adding code to custom.css Video [...]

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How to Add Webinar Registration Links to a Page

This member asked how I add the Webinar Registration Links to my pages. I demonstrate the WordPress text editor’s link tool. Video Transcript In terms of… you had a 2nd question that seemed to me like was how do I put these sign up links to the webinar in this? And these are just links [...]

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Troubleshooting Issues in the WordPress Visual Editor

This member finds that when she formats text in the WordPress visual editor that formatting gets applied to text that she intended to be unformatted. We discuss how HTML formatting is applied in the visual editor and talk about strategies to make sure that only the text she wants formatted is actually formatted. Video Transcript [...]

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Troubleshooting Text Formatting in the WordPress Editor

This member is having some difficulty with formatting text in the WordPress text editor. We look at reasons why text formatting might not work properly. We also install the TinyMCE Advanced text editor and adjust the size of text using the font size selector. We also discuss how the text editor treats HTML. Video Transcript [...]

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How to Use Anchors Within a Post or Page

A member asked how to create anchors within a page. An anchor is an HTML element that provides a specific location within a page that can be linked to. I show some examples of anchors and demonstrate how to create them. Select the link below to watch a high definition version of this video Video [...]

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How to Create a Horizontal Menu Using HTML and CSS

This member needs to create a horizontal navigation menu but can’t use either the Thesis Nav Menu or the WordPress Menu. In this video I demonstrate how to create a menu from scratch. We use an unordered list with links and CSS styles to create a menu similar in appearance to the Thesis Nav Menu. [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 36, Add HTML Markup to WordPress Menus

This is the thirty sixth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we continue working on the menus in our new catalog page. We create an HTML structure around the menus to add headings in custom_functions.php and then style the html structure [...]

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