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Checklist for Nonprofit Websites

Steve Stockdale — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:41:01 +0000

If you answer Yes to at least 15 of these 20 checklist items, your organization’s website is probably in good shape and just needs some focused attention. If your Yes answers total less than 15, however, your website isn’t working for your organization as effectively as it can.

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WordPress Version 3.3

Steve Stockdale — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:09:28 +0000

Earlier this month, WordPress released version 3.3. The Ndividuate Yourself with WordPress Tutorial was created under version 3.2.1.

The new version includes the following changes that may affect portions of the tutorial:

Notifications

In addition to the familiar yellow update notification at the top of the Dashboard alerting users to WordPress updates, there are [...]

Easy to Miss WP Settings, Options, and How-To’s

Steve Stockdale — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:14:14 +0000

As easy and well-designed as WordPress is, not everything is necessarily Ntuitive or where you might expect it to be. Here’s a starter set of items I’ll call “Easy to Miss Settings, Options, and How-To’s.” Please comment below if you have questions or suggestions for future “Easy to Miss” posts.

Image Attributes: Add a border; [...]

Change Theme Options, Widgets, Plugins

Steve Stockdale — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:21:25 +0000

Do More with Theme Options, Widgets, and Plugins

In this first article in Section 4.0 Do More with WordPress, we build on our demonstration site at www.SiteDifferent.com. The video that concludes this post demonstrates all of the steps and activities described in this article.

We’re going to:

Break up our long [...]

WordPress Settings Table

Steve Stockdale — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:02:58 +0000

Download the PDF file, or click on the table to enlarge.

Ndividuation Nspiration

Steve Stockdale — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:57:50 +0000

We see the world as ‘we’ are, not as ‘it’ is; because it is the I behind the ‘eye’ that does the seeing. — Anais Nin

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust

I know I cannot paint a flower. I know I [...]

General Tips for WordPress Beginners

Steve Stockdale — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:06:31 +0000

Think about function and structure first, style and appearance later. Don’t try to design the total and final site all at once; think incremental enhancement. Resist the temptation to go for cool first (cool theme, cool plugins, cool effect). Work up to cool. Don’t get discouraged. A brisk walk or a good night’s sleep [...]

Thinking about your new website

Steve Stockdale — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:34:13 +0000

For Ndividuals

Before you get too far along in making decisions about your new website, you should spend some quality time thinking about some important considerations. All of these questions may not apply in all circumstances, but some of them may elicit critical thoughts that you’ll want to incorporate in the structure, design, and functioning [...]

Thinking about your Organization’s new website

Steve Stockdale — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:25:01 +0000

Before you get too far along in making decisions about your new website, you and your staff should spend some quality time thinking about some important considerations. All of these questions may not apply in all circumstances, but some of them may elicit critical thoughts that you’ll want to incorporate in the structure, design, and [...]

How to find an available domain name

Steve Stockdale — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:13:33 +0000

Before you commit to a web hosting account (such as those offered by Ndividuate Yourself) you may want to make sure an acceptable domain name is available.

If you don’t already have a domain name, and want one that ends with the normal .com extension (or suffix), chances are you won’t [...]