| Section |
Articles |
Description |
| Starting Out |
Setting up your OM4 Website for the First Time
Setting Up Menus
Mapping your OM4 Subdomain to your Domain
How To Edit a few Words on your Home Page
How to Add an Image
Adding Users to Your OM4 Website |
Get up and running with a new site. |
| Self Managed Content - Web Pages |
Editing and Creating Web Pages
Why NOT to use MS Word to Prepare Content
All About your Dashboard
Preparing Image Files Before Uploading
Floating Images
Adding Links to Other Websites
Changing Your Footer Text
Managing, Organising and Editing Pages
Adding YouTube Videos
Adding Documents and PDFs
Adding Flash Presentations
Using the Featured Articles plugin
Using the Visual Editor or HTML Editor
Advanced: More Page Options
Advanced: HTML for Bloggers
Advanced: Images with Captions
Advanced: Creating Clickable Images |
Update your web pages and blog posts using your dashboard and editor. |
| Self Managed Content - Blog Posts |
How To Publish Your First Blog Post
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
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
| Tips specific for blog posts. |
| Self Managed Design |
Web Graphics Tools for Mac and Windows
Finding Images for your Website
How to Choose the Best Images for your Website
Changing the Header Image of your OM4 Web Site
Mapping your OM4 Subdomain to your Domain
Advanced: Graphic Designers: Designing for an OM4 Website
Advanced: Using CSS to Tweak Your Site Design |
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 |
Feature content, offers, subscriptions and more. Sidebar widgets put your website to work. |
| Enquiries, Bookings and Payments |
Accepting Email Enquiries using a Contact Form
Accepting Payments using PayPal |
Generate leads and accept bookings and payments. |
| 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 |
Setup and run email marketing campaigns. |
| Affiliate Marketing |
Amazon Associate Links
|
Use affiliate marketing to earn additional income. |
| Blog |
Business Blogger’s Checklist
Types of Blog Posts
Using Categories and Tags
Comments
Comment Spam |
Publish posts to your blog. |
| Site Search |
Setting Up and Monitoring Site Search |
Track what visitors are searching for on your site. |
| Testimonials |
Adding Client Testimonials |
Collect and display client testimonials to visitors. |
| Search Engine Marketing / Pay Per Click |
Integration with Google AdWords
Registering for Google Local Search
Improving Rankings for Google Local Search |
Run Pay Per Click ad campaigns. |
| Search Engine Optimization |
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 |
Help your site make it easy for search engines. |
| Keywords |
Keyword Research
Guide to Understanding and Using your Keyword Plan |
Understand keywords and put your knowledge to work. |
| Domains |
Choosing a Domain Name
Domains Names and Domain Registrars
After Your Domain is Mapped
Redirecting Your Old Pages to Your New Pages |
Learn how to identify good domain names, register them and use them to create websites. |
| Email (your own) |
Simplify Your Email Life with Google Mail |
Get your business email working |
| Introduction to Online Marketing |
The 5 New Tools of Online Marketing
Glossary of Online Marketing Terms
17 Web Tools Everyone Ought to Know About |
Get some background on how to market your business online |
| Business Coaching |
Business Coaching and the Business Growth System
|
About the BGS business coaching programme. Recommended if you are starting an online business.
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| Under The Hood |
How OM4 Hosting Works
How Upgrades and Patches are applied |
A lot goes on under the hood of your OM4 site. |
| 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 |
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?
Optimize Your Images
What Smilies Can I Use
What Are The Four Main WordPress Roles - Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor |
Useful articles from Wordpress.com |