Desty Online -- Online and Offline Businesses, Online Marketing » Wordpress http://www.destyonline.com Bringing offline business practices online. Turning bloggers into Businessmen. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:57:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Wanted: Right Side Panel, Dead or Alive! http://www.destyonline.com/wanted-right-side-panel-dead-or-alive/ http://www.destyonline.com/wanted-right-side-panel-dead-or-alive/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:36:08 +0000 Desty http://www.destyonline.com/wanted-right-side-panel-dead-or-alive/ I went to bed pretty happy with myself.  I had spent most of the evening (sorry hon, I’ll make it up to you tonight) working on the technical issues of the blog.  I finally found a theme I liked; a shout-out to Maki at Doshdosh and Daniel at The Wrong Advices for the ProSense theme.  While the theme is optimized for AdSense and SEO, it had all three of the major points I was looking for in a theme: a 3 column format,  widget ready, and it looked pretty cool, but also clean and professional

Got it downloaded and uploaded with no fuss, plugged in my adsense codes, and even added some cool widgets.  When I finally called it a night, I figured that I was almost done on the set-up and only had a few more things to work on like some plug-ins and more pages.

Got to work this morning and discovered that sometime during the night, the right side panel went over the fence, AWOL.  I’ve taken the widgets out of the side panel in hopes of resetting back to the default format, no dice.  I’ve tried looking at the side panel code, but its all Greek to me.  Unless someone has a better solution, I’m going to reset to a different theme tonight and then go back to this theme; hopefully that will reset everything and bring the missing content back.

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]]> http://www.destyonline.com/wanted-right-side-panel-dead-or-alive/feed/ Switching from Blogger to Wordpress is Not an Event, It’s a Journey. http://www.destyonline.com/switching-from-blogger-to-wordpress-is-not-an-event-it%e2%80%99s-a-journey/ http://www.destyonline.com/switching-from-blogger-to-wordpress-is-not-an-event-it%e2%80%99s-a-journey/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:00:40 +0000 Desty http://www.destyonline.com/switching-from-blogger-to-wordpress-is-not-an-event-it%e2%80%99s-a-journey/

If you are reading this, you have noticed that Desty Online is no longer on blogspot!  The switch started on Friday 6/15/07. For those of you who have little to no experience in coding or HTML, let me warn you ahead of time: YOU WILL FEEL LOST!

I knew when I started this that Wordpress is for the more advanced blogger with coding experience. The reason why is that with enough work you can sculpt your blog into exactly what you want it to look like. With that power comes responsibility, just like Spider-man; to create your custom blog you either have to be able to code or be willing to pay someone to do it for you.

I took on the challenge because I do have some coding background, although it has been a good 15 years or so since I wrote any type of code. So this entire process is a learning experience for me.

There are a great many changes in the immediate future of Desty Online. Don’t be surprised if the blog theme changes from minute to minute. It will be very bare bones for a while, but I will continue to talk about businesses and taking them online, along with investments, news, and entertainment should something interesting catch my eye.

Should anyone have any suggestions on themes or plugins, I would be most appreciative.

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]]> http://www.destyonline.com/switching-from-blogger-to-wordpress-is-not-an-event-it%e2%80%99s-a-journey/feed/ In Search of…Spock Ain’t In This One! http://www.destyonline.com/in-search-ofspock-aint-in-this-one/ http://www.destyonline.com/in-search-ofspock-aint-in-this-one/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:45:33 +0000 Desty http://www.destyonline.com/2007/06/18/in-search-ofspock-aint-in-this-one/ I’m in search of a good wordpress theme for Desty Online.  Right now, free is right in my price range, although should cash flow increase to cover the investment of a theme, I won’t be against it.  I need 3 columns and widget ready.  It should also have a nice krisp look.  I love this dark theme I’m using, but its not widget ready and I’m not code worthy enough to make it widget ready.  Any help would be appreciated!

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]]> http://www.destyonline.com/in-search-ofspock-aint-in-this-one/feed/ Desty Online 2.0 Lives!!! http://www.destyonline.com/desty-online-20-lives/ http://www.destyonline.com/desty-online-20-lives/#comments Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:51:46 +0000 Desty http://www.destyonline.com/2007/06/16/desty-online-20-lives/ As you can tell, things have changed!  I broke down and migrated from blogger to my own domain and server.  :)

I’m working with wordpress 2.2.  I like the various themes, but I am haveing problems in that I can’t just grab some HTML code for a cool button or feature and throw it on my page anymore.  Or, if its possible, I don’t know how to do it yet.  If anyone knows of a good article out there on how to use wordpress, I’d appreicate it.  The documentation that comes with wordpress reads like stereo instructions :(

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