First, have you subscribed to my Weekly Web Tips? You’ll receive my WordPress Essentials Toolkit 28-page ebook as a bonus, and subscribing is also the best way to learn when I announce a new class or product.
Second, are you following me on Twitter? I hang out there a lot, and am pretty friendly if you send a tweet my way. I don’t keep track of who starts and stops following me, but I’ll almost certainly respond if you @ me.
Free ebooks
WordPress Essentials Toolkit
This 28-page PDF is a handy WordPress reference, containing detailed, illustrated instructions for the three most basic WordPress tasks: Installing plugins, backing up, and upgrading. It’s just what you need to get started with WordPress, and it will also come in handy the next time a new version of WordPress is released! It’s yours when you subscribe to my Weekly Web Tips.
How to Upgrade Anything
This 20-page PDF describes a six-step process for making upgrades less stressful and more successful. Follow the steps when you’re facing a technological upgrade…or, really, a transition of any kind. Don’t quail in fear of upgrading your software, your hardware…or anything at all!
Color Clinic with Amy Crook
Color Clinic audio and PDF gives you a one-hour mp3 audio download and a 3-page artist’s tipsheet (by Amy Crook; I’m no artist!) describing how to choose (and more importantly, how NOT to choose) a color scheme for your website, giving you some solid design principles to help you use color effectively, and offering recommendations for upgrading and fine-tuning your website’s colors.
Free audio downloads
Third, here are a bunch of free audio downloads for your listening pleasure. I hope you like them, and I always like to hear from people after they’ve had a listen. Do let me know what you think!
Your first WordPress Swimming Lesson
Your first WordPress Swimming Lesson (one-hour mp3 audio download) is complimentary. I teach a quarterly workshop of the same name, but I wanted to make sure that everyone has some basic information about why I recommend WordPress, what the heck “web hosting” means, and how you can put together your own online empire with those two powerful tools.
Getting more out of AWeber
Love Your List: Three ways to get more out of your AWeber investment is a one-hour mp3 audio download of a teleclass that Shannon Wilkinson and I held to help complete AWeber beginners get started with this powerful email service provider. We discussed autoresponders, blog broadcasts, sign-up forms, and more.
Color Clinic with Amy Crook
Color Clinic audio and PDF gives you a one-hour mp3 audio download and a 3-page artist’s tipsheet (by Amy Crook; I’m no artist!) describing how to choose (and more importantly, how NOT to choose) a color scheme for your website, giving you some solid design principles to help you use color effectively, and offering recommendations for upgrading and fine-tuning your website’s colors. (Yes, I know I mentioned this twice — it fits into both the audio category and the free PDF category!)
