Want a WordPress site?

May 17, 2011 By

Want to declare your independence with a brand-new shiny WordPress site? You can launch it to the world by the fourth of July!

My wondertwin Amy Crook and I are all booked up for the rest of May, but we have two slots available in June and two in July for our Bonanza package (which includes custom header art and a cartoon by Amy, in addition to smooth tech sailing courtesy of yours truly).

Want to see the Bonanza package in action? Check out Amy’s original watercolor art for Maribeth Doerr of StorkNetFamily.com (those are some cute baby birds!). I installed WordPress and Maribeth’s choice of theme, added Amy’s art and custom color scheme, and Maribeth now has the freedom to add and edit content as she pleases.

I also have two slots in June and three in July for Bonus packages (which includes theme customization but not original art).

And if you want a no-frills install so you can get going quickly, you can get that for $99 with the Basic package (four slots available in June and four in July).

Complete details on all the packages are available on the WordPress Packages page.

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Free website color clinic teleclass today!

June 16, 2010 By

Today at 1pm, I’ll be doing a free teleclass with artist Amy Crook of Not Dead Yet Studios and Antemortem Arts. Amy’s years of experience in graphic design and fine art are a perfect complement to my WordPress geekery; between the two of us you get beautiful form and flawless function. And that goes for our website work, too ;)

In this no-cost one-hour call, we’ll tell you how to choose (and more importantly, how NOT to choose) a color scheme for your website, give you some solid design principles to help you use color effectively, and offer recommendations for upgrading and fine-tuning your website’s colors. Got a question about color? Join us and ask it live!

Amy is going to announce a special deal just for callers, and this call is also the official launch of our joint WordPress packages, but this is not a sales call. We’re going to have fun picking apart some websites we know and love, and learning to see web colors with a designer’s eye. We’d love to have you join us!

We’re publishing the dial-in number and access code so that you can join us easily. No strings attached, no reservation or registration required.

Free teleclass details

We’ll be recording the call, and we’ll be happy to send you a free copy of the recording plus a 5-page PDF handout on using color effectively online. For that, we’ll need a way to contact you. Sign up here to get on the mailing list for the call recording and handout (this handout was designed by Amy, and she’s an artist — trust me, it’s gorgeous!).

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Upcoming classes: Backups, Upgrades, & Web Colors

June 8, 2010 By

A quick roundup of upcoming stuff:

Tomorrow (Thursday, June 10), I’m Cairene MacDonald’s guest for a special Bite the Candy workshop on backups and upgrades. So if you’ve been putting off backing up your hard drive, or upgrading your WordPress plugins, or you want support with other backup-and-upgrade-related issues, join us for a dose of reassurance and some focused work time.

Learn all about Bite the Candy and sign up here.

Next week, on Wednesday, June 16, I’m holding a free Color Clinic teleclass with artist Amy Crook of Not Dead Yet Studios and Antemortem Arts. We’ll talk about the do’s and don’ts of choosing colors for your website (I’ve got lots of stuff to ask Amy, because I’m a builder, not a designer — I deliver function, and the form is pretty much up to you), plus we’ll announce our top secret joint project!

Learn about the Color Clinic and sign up here.

Finally, my Love Your List workshop with Shannon Wilkinson is going really well, and you can still join us! The live workshop runs through June 22, and you’ll have access to all the call recordings so you can catch up and get AWeber all set up to build your business. We will be packaging the recordings and creating a workbook for a home-study version, which will be priced 50% higher. So if you want all the same materials as the home-study version, for a much lower price, you’ll want to sign up now.

Learn about Love Your List and sign up here.

I love doing these live classes, and I’d be thrilled to have you join me for any of them.

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