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  • Becky DeGrossa 7:46 pm on November 25, 2013 Permalink |
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    How to find what theme an existing WordPress site is using (for PC) 

    Using Firefox Browser

    1. Pull up the website you would like to know the theme being used (must be a wordpress site)

    2. At the top left, use the pull down on the Firefox icon.

    3. Select web developer

    4. Select page source

    5. Now click Cntl F (find) which will appear at bottom left.

    6. Type in the word Theme and it will highlight the word theme in the body of page.

    7. Next to the word theme will be the name of theme used.

    Hope this is helpful….

     

     

  • Becky DeGrossa 6:34 pm on November 24, 2013 Permalink |
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    PC Workshops – Purpose and Topics 

    The purpose of the PC (and other soon to come) workshops is that we’ll use these to identify areas needing improvements, figure out solutions together, implement them, and in this way, build our processes and procedures so that we all have what we need to do our jobs well!

    These workshop will follow a process I learned from Chet Holmes (great book – The Ultimate Sales Machine). If you’re interested in the workshop process, only, read Chapter 3.

    For the first meeting (on December 5th) we’ll do this:

    1. Each of us will privately take 3 minutes and jot down 3 ideas to improve the PC process.  Each of you will have different ideas based on your experiences.  We want to hear them all.
    2. We will jot all of these down and number them.
    3. Based on impact and urgency, we’ll prioritize them.
    4. Each week, we’ll take one of these topics and tackle it.  Some of the work may require work to be done outside the meeting, but other issues can be resolved, addressed, and a solution documented in the meeting.
    5. The end result of each workshop will be that we establish and document a procedure for handling the situation in question.

    Topics that the team has already identified and already scheduled (note that after the start of our meeting, we may no longer feel that these are the top issues based on progress over the last couple of weeks, but we can also stick to this if it makes sense)

    Date: Thursday December 5
    Topic: WordPress Themes for Clients
    Date: Thursday December 12
    Topic: Hosting Sites and Resource Allocation
    Date: Thursday December 19, 9:30-11:00
    Topic: WordPress Developer Protocols & Pre-Live Checklist

    Thanks, in advance, for all of your genius help in making us rock as a company!

     

  • Juliette Cook 9:31 pm on November 22, 2013 Permalink |
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    Categories: Project Coordinators | Wordpress Developers ( 113 )

    Fiverr – for Logos and Graphics 

    Hi all

    If a client wants a quickie ‘logo’ that doesn’t cost hundred of dollars, we are charging clients $50 so that we go onto this service, look for a top rated designer and there is usually a quick turn around. Make sure the designer has good ratings. I have had some bad experiences and also look a how long it will take a designer. the more specific you are about what kind of logo you want the better. Colors, background colors and styles that you like will get the results you need for a happy client.

    We can also include this in a workshop regarding design and colors for clients.

     

    the site is: http://fiverr.com/categories/graphics-design/creative-logo-design/#layout=auto&jls_sca349_1_auto=1

    and becky made a screencast:

    Here’s how: http://screencast.com/t/fkVT5m26pYW

     

  • Juliette Cook 9:22 pm on November 22, 2013 Permalink |
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    Categories: Project Coordinators | Wordpress Developers ( 113 )

    Placing a form on a wordpress site, estimate, production and testing 

    hi all,

    just like we did for the STWP kickoff check list, my client wants to put a questionnaire on his site and get results instantly. I need to know what this takes – manpower – how many hours to build, test – I am trying to give him an estimate before going into production. Can you help, WP developers? Is there a plug-in for this functionality?

    maybe a workshop on this because this could be a great upsell. upsell upsell! hell yeah.

    thank you.

    juliette

     

    • Juan Villegas 9:52 pm on November 22, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      mm a hand-made, simple (name, email, question..) form using ajax and styled according to the site may take 3-4 hours. results would be emailed to the wordpress site owner account.

      another possibility is linking a 3rd party form, like aweber/mailchimp. Those usually give you a code that you just copy/paste into the side. Its only html. 1 hour to generate the form in Aweber, copy the code, style it a little, etc.

    • Becky DeGrossa 6:07 pm on November 24, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Juliette – putting it on, if he has it all together and doesn’t make changes, is probably about an hour. Our form (on CW site) is done via Visual Form Builder Pro – a paid plugin. He may want to buy it (you can look up the cost) as it ends up looking pretty good compared to other contact form software.

      I think we talked about this on his call, but I don’t remember the details of how this will be used. Will they just fill it out and then they get the results and he gets the results? And then they can connect separately from the form submit?

      If he wants an interactive form where the form scores things and gives them some indication, right after they’ve answered questions, online, then that is an entirely different thing than what we have. Just wanted to make sure to mention that since I think that an interactive form was mentioned on our call.

      Meagan was the one who created our form on CW site, by the way 🙂 It’s pretty easy to do.

  • Juliette Cook 9:18 pm on November 22, 2013 Permalink |
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    Workshop – Hosting, Email Hosting and how it all works 

    Hi all,

    We need to have a workshop about our hosting services and how they work. I have a client that wants to know how Host Gator (for example – could be bluehost too – handles email – for example, is there an easy pathway to check her email? Can you check host gator email on a mobile app?

    These are questions I didn’t know the answer to – so it would be helpful to be more informed.

    thanks.

    juliette

     

    • Juan Villegas 9:53 pm on November 22, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      All webhosts offer a webmail service, that works just like a gmail client: they give you an url where you enter username and password and log in to your mailbox.

      If the webhost gives you the smtp server, you can always link your @domain.com account to outlook express or also gmail.

    • Juliette Cook 10:01 pm on November 22, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      i am wondering how hostgator does it – specifically can a user get their hostgator email from their phone?

      • Becky DeGrossa 6:11 pm on November 24, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        In my experience, none of the email interfaces that come from these hosting accounts are particularly user-friendly. In addition, they have to go to another place to see their email.

        My suggestion would be that all of our clients have some friendlier email — usually one they’re already using — such as gmail, yahoo, etc. and that we forward their name@sitename.com email to them at their gmail/yahoo id.

        All of you PCs are doing this already. You all have either a page1pros.org id or a counselingwise.com id and we forward your email to your gmail id. You can tell what is “work” related email compared to personal email, and you can respond to or author emails from your “work” id.

    • Juan Villegas 10:30 pm on November 23, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      take a look at: http://support.hostgator.com/articles/specialized-help/email/setting-up-email-for-the-apple-iphone

      basically, they give you the configuration parameters and you use the Mail program in your ithing (iphone, ipad, etc) or even in your desktop client (outlook, thunderbird..)

  • Juliette Cook 2:37 pm on November 21, 2013 Permalink |
    Tags: pixel ruler, ,   
    Categories: Project Coordinators | Wordpress Developers ( 113 )

    Great Pixel tool for developers and PC’s 

    Hi all,

    This is a great tool to use when a PC isn’t sure of the size an image should be, when ‘make it smaller’ just won’t cut it and we as PC’s need to give exact dimensions. It is super useful to give a developer the exact pixel dimensions so that there is a lot less guesswork/back and forth and time spent on a task.

    It is called PixelWindow and it is FREE on itunes. i got mine for the mac. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pixelwindow/id503739894?mt=12

    hooray!

     

  • Juliette Cook 2:29 pm on November 21, 2013 Permalink |
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    How long does it REALLY take to put navigation item on a theme and build pages? 

    Hi all

    I have had varied results here. Some developers will take 4 hours and some will take 2 hours.  Since we are charging client per hour and have to account for each task what is with the variation on this. So to be specific, a PC says on a task, Place Nav Items in Top and Build out corresponding pages.

    We need to set a standard time for this as anything over 2/3  hours seems too long. I need developer input of course.

    thanks,

    juliette

     

    • Juan Villegas 10:29 pm on November 21, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      mm I think the variation comes from the time it takes a developer to do the context switch from whatever he is doing and start working on whatever he is asked to. if im in charge of a site, and you ask me to create a menu/page, it shouldnt take me longer than a couple of minutes as Im supposed to know already the structure and constraints of the site. In the other hand, if I get a login and a ftp by email of a site i’ve never worked with, then its going to take me some time to get used to it, the plugins it use, the theme, the framework, etc.

      other times menus arent created, and thus the dev needs to dive into the php templates and code the menu himself.

    • Juan Villegas 10:32 pm on November 21, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      last but not least.. several times requirements “outrange” whats included in the theme, and diving into the php files of a pre-made theme isnt as simple as it sounds. simple stuff like making root menu items unclickable or changing the number of columns of a page/post require some evaluation of the consequences those changes will have in the whole package.

  • Becky 1:54 am on November 19, 2013 Permalink |
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    Recording / marking time 

    Juliette suggests a workshop on what time is marked billable versus not billable and how that fits with contracts, and how to get visibility to all the damn deals I’m making with people, etc.

    This isn’t exactly a STWP topic, since all time on STWP projects are billable, however, since this is a knowledgebase, I want to capture the request and also to start a new tag called Workshops!

     

  • Becky 3:01 am on November 17, 2013 Permalink |
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    Theme Discussions with Clients 

    Sent to me from Dave: (Note — this client wasn’t a STW client, but I think the convo is useful for other high maintenance clients!)

    <Client name> is going to be a handful. She wants an overview of the Chameleon theme so she can understand all the possibilities. Not sure how to respond to that….

    My answer:

    Dave – I see that you’ve already had 3 1-hour calls with Susan on themes. Wow. Her SOW states that we’ll do 2 1/2-hour calls (total of 1 hour) discussing theme changes, etc. So… please let her know that we’re going to be billing her for the extra 2 hours of phone calls on themes. That will hopefully bring this issue to a head.

    Re how to answer her question on the the chameleon theme — I’d show her some of the sites we’ve implemented with it, and tell her that these are our recommended page layouts — that we use them because they are best from a marketing perspective.

    Sites include: thecouplesdoc.com, adam klein’s site (as you know). There may be more – you could ask Juliette.

    If she wants to know more, she can look at the page templates on this page: http://www.elegantthemes.com/demo/?theme=Chameleon

    But that we’re already charging extra for the time spent on the theme discussions and will keep charging as we factor only an hour into the price of the website for this as stated in her contract.

    If she gets [nasty] and wants to end with us, I’m probably fine with that. I’m NOT willing to lose money on her.

    We are totally willing to create sample pages for her and to have tons more discussions with her, but they’ll be billed at $xx/hour.

     

     

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