Need help on how to use your OM4 website? This page is an index of How To articles that will help you with specific tasks.
| Section |
Articles |
Description |
| Starting Out |
How To Edit a few Words on your Home Page
How To Publish Your First Blog Post
How to Add an Image
Adding Users to Your OM4 Website
Optimizing Your Website for Search Engines
All About your Dashboard
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Introduction to updating your website. |
| Web Pages |
Editing and Creating Web Pages
Why NOT to use MS Word to Prepare Content
Adding Documents and PDFs
Adding YouTube Videos
Adding Flash Presentations
Adding Text Links to Other Websites
Using the Visual Editor or HTML Editor
Managing, Organising and Editing Pages
Using the Featured Articles plugin
Updating your Website from your iPhone (Wordpress.tv)
Advanced: More Page Options
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Update your web pages and blog posts using your dashboard and editor. |
| Blog Posts |
How to Approve and Unapprove Comments
What Should I Blog About?
Managing, Organising and Editing Published Blog Posts
Using Share This for Social Networking
Changing the Title and Permalink of your Post
Using Categories and Tags
How To Set A Category for a Blog Post
How to Organise Your Blog Categories
Setting Up A Post To Publish In the Future
Creating an Excerpt for your Post
Changing Rules for Comment Moderation
Business Blogger’s Checklist
Types of Blog Posts
Comments
Comment Spam
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Tips specific for blog posts. |
| HTML Tips |
HTML for Bloggers
Using Copyright, Trademark and other Special Characters
Using shortcodes in OM4 websites
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Some more advanced tips so you can do more with your website. |
| Images |
Finding Images for your Website
Preparing Image Files Before Uploading
Preparing Images for the Web: Color Profiles, sRGB and Adobe RGB
Floating Images
Adding Image Galleries
Creating Clickable Images
How to Choose the Best Images for your Website
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Include images in your website. |
| Design |
Finding Fonts for your Web Graphics
Changing the Header Image of your OM4 Web Site
Advanced: Graphic Designers: Designing for an OM4 Website
Advanced: Adding Image Rotators
Advanced: Using CSS to Tweak Your Site Design
Web Graphics Tools for Mac and Windows
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Change the way your website looks. |
| Sidebars |
What Is A Widget Video
Summary of Available Sidebar Widgets
Changing the Contents of Your Sidebar using Widgets
Changing the Layout and Appearance of Your Sidebar
Using Text Widgets to Place Text, Images, Forms and Links in Your Sidebar
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Feature content, offers, subscriptions and more. Sidebar widgets put your website to work. |
| Enquiries, Bookings and Payments |
Accepting Email Enquiries using a Contact Form
eCommerce: Shopping Carts and Payments
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Generate leads and accept bookings and payments. |
| Google Maps |
Creating a Custom Google Map and Adding to your Website
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Integrate with Google Maps. |
| Site Search |
Setting Up and Monitoring Site Search |
Track what visitors are searching for on your site. |
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Testimonials and Calendars |
Adding Client Testimonials to your website
Adding an Event Calendar to your website
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Collect and display testimonials and event information to visitors. |
| Domains |
Domains Names and Domain Registrars
After Your Domain is Mapped
Redirecting Your Old Pages to Your New Pages
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Learn how to identify good domain names, register them and use them to create websites. |
| Email |
Simplify Your Email Life with Google Mail
Setting up and using Google Apps / Google Mail
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Get your business email working |
| Keywords |
Keyword Research
Guide to Understanding and Using your Keyword Plan
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Understand keywords and put your knowledge to work. |
| Search Engine Optimization (SEO) |
Introduction to Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization
On Page SEO - Optimising your Posts and Pages for Search Engines
Off Page SEO - Optimization with OM4 and Wordpress
What is Google Pagerank and How Do I Interpret It?
Technical SEO Features of an OM4 Website
Getting a Wordpress Website Included in Google News
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Help your site make it easy for search engines. |
| Search Engine Marketing (SEM) / Pay Per Click (PPC) |
Setting Up a Google AdWords (Pay Per Click) Campaign for your Website
How To Calculate Your Profit from Pay Per Click Advertising
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Run Pay Per Click ad campaigns. |
| Local Search |
Registering for Google Local Search
Improving Rankings for Google Local Search
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Register and rank for localised searches. |
| Introduction to Online Marketing |
The 5 New Tools of Online Marketing
Glossary of Online Marketing Terms
17 Web Tools Everyone Ought to Know About
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Get some background on how to market your business online |
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Email Marketing |
Introduction to Email Marketing
How to Start with Aweber and Setup your Email Newsletter
How to Publish Your Newsletter to your Website and Aweber
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Setup and run email marketing campaigns. |
| Affiliate Marketing |
Amazon Associate Links
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Use affiliate marketing to earn additional income. |
| Website Setup |
Setting up an OM4 Website
Configuring Menus
Changing Your Footer Text
Mapping Domains
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Use the powerful website setup features of the OM4 platform. |
| Business Coaching |
Business Coaching and the Business Growth System
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About the BGS business coaching programme. Recommended if you are starting an online business. |
| Hosting |
How OM4 Hosting Works
How Upgrades and Patches are applied
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How your OM4 website is hosted. |
| Related Articles |
Landing Pages (from CopyBlogger)
Link Building by Audette Media (found courtesy Aaron Wall)
RSS in Plain English (in 3.5 minutes), by Commoncraft
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Useful articles from the web |
| Related Articles From Wordpress.com |
How To Add an Image to Wordpress
How To Write Links
The Difference Between a Post and a Page
What Is The Post Status
What’s A Tag
What Is A Widget
WordPress.com vs WordPress.org - standalone OM4 sites use the Wordpress.org version, OM4 Community sites are similar to Wordpress.com
What is allowed in a picture filename
Adding Badges to your Sidebar
Put an image in a sidebar text widget
Changing the Title of Your Site
Using a Creative Commons licence
How Do I Change My Password?
What Smilies Can I Use
What Are The Four Main WordPress Roles - Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor
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Wordpress.com have published some excellent articles and screencasts that we have included as well as our own OM4 articles. |