HTML to Know for Editing Content in WordPress

Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 December 2012 12:01 Written by TJ Marsh Wednesday, 26 December 2012 12:00

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms used today. It is beginning to be used widely for regular websites as well, so it is more than just a blogging platform. You can easily use it to create almost any type of website you desire. Installing and setting up WordPress is fairly simple and many hosting providers will even do it for you. Often times, the toughest part of running a WordPress blog or website is creating high quality content. Sure, anyone can cut and paste text and articles into a WYSIWYG editor and have a somewhat decent WordPress website, but it’s not going be enough to compete in today’s online market. You need original and eye-catching content to really make a WordPress site popular. In order to create the type of content you need to build a successful WordPress website, there are a few simple HTML techniques that you should familiarize yourself with. In this tutorial we will cover some of the basic HTML knowledge you should possess as a WordPress entrepreneur.

Why Use HTML in WordPress

How Do I Check That a Content Delivery Network (CDN) is Available?

Last Updated on Thursday, 29 November 2012 08:29 Written by David Bauernschmidt Saturday, 1 December 2012 12:00

The #1 way to speed up your website is to minimize HTTP requests, however; inevitably you will make request for images, audio, video, code, and other content. Whenever; you can off load some of the content to other domains or to other servers your site will always load faster. However; there will be times when those ‘other servers’ will be down. Whether it is just for a moment or for a longer period of time, you do not want your site to be at the mercy of those servers. What can you do? (Glad you asked). You can have the best of both worlds. Why not check to see if the ‘other’ server is available. If it is then use their servers to deliver your content. If not then just load your own content from your site. It is not that hard to do and takes about 3 more lines of code. You can use this for anything in particular. Just find the piece of code to check for.

I am giving you this example of the jQuery library and any library will do just replace the code with the syntax for their library.

How to Add a Professional Announcement Bar at the Top of Your Site with Plain HTML

Last Updated on Sunday, 11 November 2012 04:28 Written by Richi González Monday, 12 November 2012 12:00

Hello,

Today I’ll show you one of the things I think a website must have: an announcement bar. What for? To let your users know recent changes, recent news or basically any text you want them to be the first thing they will see. An example of what the announcement bar will look like can be seen here: tecchmun2012.com.

Difficulty level: Easy

1. Open the index HTML file or the header file, if any.

Editing Global Settings Part 3: Content Formatting

Last Updated on Friday, 3 August 2012 10:42 Written by Stephanie Brown Saturday, 11 August 2012 12:00

Read Part 2 here!
This article will focus on editing your site’s Content Formatting settings.   These settings include choosing a WYSIWYG text editor, allowing HTML, resizing images and embedded video, and more.

First you want to log into your phpFox Admincp.  Once there, select Settings, then Manage Settings from the menu.

How to Add HTML Code to Your Menu Items in CMS Made Simple

Last Updated on Monday, 2 April 2012 10:23 Written by Nic Bug Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:00

Sometimes you want to add some HTML Code to your menu items. For example, you may want to add an image, highlight special words or colorize certain words with <span></span> tags. By default CMS Made Simple does not allow this.

But this is very easy to implement!

The best method is to open MenuManager in your CMS Made Simple project: