How to Login to Joomla

The login page will usually be found at www.yourjoomladomain.com/administrator/index.php The login page will look like this: Login using the provided username and password. If this page stays open for more than ten minutes (without you logging in), it’s connection to the site will ‘expire’. When you enter your information and click ‘login’, the page will [...]

WordPress Widgets

The last few versions of WordPress have included widgets. Widgets are a system which allows you to rearrange the content in your WordPress sidebar without having to manually change the code. Widgets can be found in the ‘Widgets’ button  under ‘Appearance.’ Several widgets come standard with WordPress, and others are bundled into plugins and are [...]

The NextGEN Gallery Widgets

Another great feature of the NextGEN Gallery plugin is the widget it comes with. This widget makes it easy to display pictures on your WordPress sidebar without having to use another plugin or to write any code. Using the widget is easy. Follow the steps in WordPress Widgets to drag the NextGEN Gallery Widget or [...]

MapPress (Google Maps in WordPress)

MapPress is the easiest way to insert a map into a WordPress post, and it makes inserting driving directions and showing locations much faster. Install the MapPress plugin (Contact Pica Design if you need help with this) Open the MapPress box in the New Post or Page section and enter the address and the caption [...]

Content Analysis in Google Analytics

In the Content section of Google Analytics, you can find an amazing amount of information about how visitors view and use your websites content. It shows you where people are entering and exiting your website, what sections of your site are visited the most, and how to optimize your site to draw in and captivate [...]

Learning About Your Visitors With Google Analytics

The key to running a successful website is catching and keeping the attention of your visitors. Google Analytics offers many tools which can help you learn more about how users interact with your site. After you enter your Google Analytics account, click on the visitors link on the left sidebar of the page. The first [...]

Traffic Sources in Google Analytics

Google Analytics also offers a lot of information in its ‘Traffic Sources’ section. By learning where your visitors visit most often, you can improve your website immensely. The overview page contains the following: A pie chart showing where your traffic comes from. There are three possible sources: Direct Traffic is when a visitor types your [...]

Dynamic Headers for WordPress

Dynamic Headers allow different posts and pages in WordPress to have different images or text on the header (the top of the page, above the content). This means that your Homepage header can be different from the header on your Contact page, for example, the Contact page could have a picture of a telephone on [...]

Captcha Tools

Captchas are a standard method to prevent spam on a website. CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” and almost everyone has used one at some point. Since computers can’t read these images effectively, they are used as verification of a person posting a comment or filling out [...]

Smart YouTube for WordPress

With the Smart YouTube plugin for WordPress, embedding a YouTube video into a WordPress is extremely easy. All you have to do is add a few letters into the YouTube address. Find a video you want to embed into your WordPress post. Copy its URL into a WordPress post http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeacjOkLjZ0 Insert a letter after the [...]