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Putting your Twitter feed on your website

admin — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:25:33 +0000

WordPress and Twitter have made a wonderful union by allowing for the integration of your tweets and blog posts.

Twitter for WordPress, Twitter Tools post yours latest tweets on your WordPress blog. With the ability to display your tweets as a widget in the sidebar or directly on the main body of your site this plugin in is great for integrating the two media.

TweetSuite adds the TweetBacks, ReTweet-This buttons, digg-like Tweet-This Button to your posts.

Integrating Twitter and WordPress

admin — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:57:24 +0000

A good link for Best Twitter Tools for WordPress Blogs

Posting from Facebook to WordPress

admin — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:04:35 +0000

Facebook can forward your Wall comments to your WordPress blog

Importing Facebook Albums

WordPress Fotobook is a plugin that takes your Facebook albums and imports them into a page on your WordPress website.

Other plugins

Other Plugins can be found at: thefattytalks.com

Posting from WordPress to Facebook

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:25:12 +0000

WordPress has two main ways to integrate your website into a user’s account.

Posting to Facebook

WPbook is a plugin one installs through WordPress. It pushes your blog posts to your account on Facebook. All on has to do is install the plugin, set up a New Application on Facebook, and enter the Facebook API code into the plugin’s settings. Your posts will appear as a Box on the lefthand column of Facebook but are all saved on the server where your site is hosted.

The Like Button

WP-Facebook Connect is a plugin installed through WordPress. It adds the “like” button to your posts and forwards these as comments to your Facebook Wall. Install the plugin, set up a new application on Facebook and enter the API code into the “Facebook Connect” Settings on the backend of your site.

The Share Button

QuailPress is a plugin installed through WordPress. It adds the “share” button to your posts and forwards the comments to your Facebook Wall.

Other Plugins

Other plugins that you can use to post to Facebook:

25 WordPress Facebook Plugins You Shouldn’t Ignore

Integrating WordPress and Facebook

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:56:00 +0000

Check out this great resource for integrating your WordPress website with Facebook:

www.smashingmagazine.com

Customizable Templates

admin — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:40:59 +0000

GreenThumbWebsites offers WordPress templates for individual and small business enterprises. A template, or a site’s style, is the visual representation and formatting of the essential information you desire to advertise. Normally broken up between pages, the site’s style repeats over all the pages found in the main menu bar or sidebar, producing an uniform design and friendly user experience.

The templates offered by GreenThumbWebsites range in styles and formats, from one, two, or three columnar layouts that are easily customizable for your needs. You can incorporate their business logo into the header or footer, change the color palette of the background and text, and font style (bold, italics, underline) and size. Our default templates also allow the manipulation of layout, if you need a two columnar layout where our template offers three we can make the appropriate adjustments. But the most beneficial aspect of GreenThumbWebsite’s templates are their built-in capability to use all the widgets and nearly 12,000 plugins which WordPress is infamous.

Take a look at our gallery of customizable templates:

Personalizing your Homepage

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:57:36 +0000

The homepage is one of the most important aspects of any good website or blog. It is the first impression a visitor receives after entering the website’s URL into the address bar or a search engine like Google. Designing an attractive and user friendly interface for a business or individual therefore is paramount to project an image of yourself and services. GreenThumbWebsites realizes the importance of good design by adhering to web standards (HTML 5) while attending to the user design experience.

All GreenThumbWebsites’ designs come with a standard homepage called “Home” located in the upper menu bar. This pages contains an opening text introducing the visitor to the site, and prompting them to take a look at the other pages’ contents. You can add internal or external links, contact information, or content in the sidebar that will guide your visitor to specific information about your services. Leaving the homepage a visitor perusing your website can return by simply clicking the menu link or on the site main title. The homepage is not only an opportunity to promote yourself, but the impression your visitors will take of your operation…so use it to your advantage!

Your website as a point of Contact

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:01:17 +0000

With over 266,000 users in North America alone on the internet a website is an essential features for any business or professional. Whether it be a local or global scope the web has become what yellow pages was two decades ago, a medium for contact. Unlike the print medium, a contact page provides more than the information for clients to contact you, but a means for them to provide feedback about your services and place for commentary.

In conjunction with your email address and/or business phone number a contact page can provide a “contact form”. These forms may be tailored to individual requests as to what fields one requires but general contain a “Name”, “Message”, and means to contact the individual in return. Below is a typical form GreenThumbWebsites provides for your website:

Contact Us

Each page of your WordPress website has the capability for questions and comments. Contact information is not inclusively restricted to a contact page but can be posted at the footer of the website or in a sidebar where it is more readily visible.

Incorporating Images into your Website

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:28:20 +0000

Incorporating images into your website is a way to promote your business or an individual. Many websites include images of their business location, profiles of individuals, or works of art that give visual representation to textual explanation of your practice or credentials. GreenThumbWebsites offers a number of options when it comes to displaying images, be it photography, drawing, painting or other artwork. In conjunction with the WordPress platform you can include a static image (one that does not change or rotate) or dynamic images (one that rotates through the use of flash or another player) through our use of plugins and widget. Here are a few or the hundreds of options available to add images to any page or press post:

Plugins and Widgets

Galleries

NextGEN Gallery: A fully integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a slideshow option. Create albums for your images and display them as gallery sets or rotating images
Gallery Widget: A widget that shows the latest/random images of the WordPress media library

Flickr

Flickrpress: A widget/shortcode function to display items from Flickr in the sidebar or within pages and posts
Widget Flickr Gallery: A widget that displays your latest or favories Flickr photos
Flickr Photo Album: A plugin that allows you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your site

Google Picasa

Picasa Widget: This widget allows you to show pictures from your Google Picasa account in your site’s sidebar
WP-Picasa: This plugin enables the display of picasa albums/gallery on posts or pages
Picasa for WordPress: A plugin that will let you add slideshow widget(s) of Picasa albums from the given RSS

Applications

Simpleviewer

A customizable image viewing application that allows you to create albums and galleries for your images. Lightweight and easy to use, it features smart preloading, a resizable interface, thumbnail menu and optional description text. View the demo:

Autoviewer-Pro

A customizable Flash image gallery. AutoViewer is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions. View the demo: