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

    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..)

  • Juan Villegas 10:40 pm on November 21, 2013 Permalink |  
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    Site Document 

    Im not sure if we are already delivering one of these, i tink we dont. It would be cool to deliver a pdf togheter with the site to each of the customers. Im not sure the format and how long we should take to write it, but could be:
    -generic section with wordpress stuff (create page, post, categories, etc). This is easy and would be written once for all..
    -custom section focusing on each customer’s site. For example, creating testimonials or updating gallery images.

    I guess its easy to justify this expense to the client, adds value and will save a lot of q’s from them..

     

    • Becky DeGrossa 6:16 pm on November 24, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Good idea, Juan. Barb is perhaps (hopefully 🙂 our last client that will have a gallery!

      We already send our clients to a free set of training videos on how to work with WordPress, at WP101.com. We give them our company sign in so they can go to the videos any time they want to see how to add / edit a page or post.

      However, we don’t teach them how to edit sidebars (though the training area has that, I’m sure). We also have many people now using MailPoet for their email list building/newsletters. We have created some training for this for some clients, but this is something that we can add to this document you refer to. This should be added to our Workshop List — the Project Coordinators are going to start having workshops each Thursday to discuss how to continually improve. We also need to start having some for developers and also bringing you guys into our workshops as needed, so watch for that!

  • Juan Villegas 10:34 pm on November 21, 2013 Permalink |  
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    Quick question: is it possible to “subscribe” to posts/comments in this system? Id like to get mail notifications every time there is a reply/new post..

     

    • Becky DeGrossa 6:18 pm on November 24, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      There should be, yes. Can you please log in to the admin area and then play with your user settings and see how you can do that? And when you figure it out, can you post the answer so that anyone else who wants to can do that?

  • 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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    Categories: Project Coordinators | Wordpress Developers ( 113 )

    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.

  • Juliette Cook 1:50 am on November 20, 2013 Permalink |
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    Homepage and Page sample Wireframes for Themes 

    HOMEPAGEexample_layoutv2

    PAGEexample_layoutv2HOMEPAGEexample_layoutv2

     

    • Juliette Cook 1:51 am on November 20, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      ok i posted this – how can i put this into the theme category

  • Meagan Vitek 12:45 am on November 20, 2013 Permalink |
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    PC’s – How to Add New Projects to LGED for STWP 

    Hey all you amazing Project Coordinators. Here is how to add new projects to LGED (with the new template): http://screencast.com/t/Amkf0UHQC

     

  • Meagan Vitek 7:17 pm on November 19, 2013 Permalink |
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    Adding Time & Expenses to LGED 

    Here is a jing video on how to add time to LGED: http://screencast.com/t/DowV5Igw0Ef3

     

  • Juan Villegas 12:16 pm on November 19, 2013 Permalink |
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    I’ve found this re the P2’s chrome issue: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/posting-on-chrome-isnt-working-mac-osx?replies=16#post-4894618 is anyone looking into it already?

     

    • Becky 3:21 pm on November 19, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Great, Juan! I know that you need to get Barb’s site done. I’ll ask Daryl to look into this.

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