We provide several ways for you to get Help and Interactive Training for WordPress…
Call 303-888-5140 Today to Book Your Personalized One-On-One WordPress Training or Group WordPress Training
By request, Personalized WordPress Training is available for specialized one-on-one WordPress Help & Training arranged by appointment for those that have specific needs such as a particular indepth topic, feature, or technique they need to learn:
- $85/hour for all WordPress Training at any level, for any topic of your choice
- Beginning WordPress Training
- Intermediate WordPress Training
- Advanced WordPress Training
- WordPress SEO
- WordPress as a CMS
- E-commerce Setup
- Membership Websites
- Social Media Integration Into WordPress
- Or anything you need to learn!
Your whole team of up to 15 people can attend at the same price!
- Includes Online Video Training from the WordPress Training we do with you via web conference!
Training personally handled by the owner of the company.
Also the Founder/Organizer of WordPressInteractiveTraining.com
- Your whole team of up to 15 people can attend at the same price!
- Just let us know what you need to learn and we'll set up a training just for you and your team.
- Includes an Online Video Training from the WordPress Training we do with you via web conference!
Benefits of Training
Benefits of Training
Personalized WordPress Training & Consulting
- Learn WordPress tips and tricks from an expert.
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We train you one-on-one, or we can do a group training by training you and your group of colleagues on how to use WordPress.
- We can keep it simple for beginners, or go as deep and wide as you want (good for fast learners, technical people, or developers familiar with other web technologies new to WordPress).
- On-site training (Denver/Boulder areas), in-person training (Denver/Boulder areas), or training via interactive web conference good for anywhere in the world, with as many participants as need training.
- Learn by doing...if you already have a WordPress website we can train you using your own website...if not, we'll set up a dummy WordPress site to walk you through the areas you need help with.
- Interactive...we let you ask questions along the way, and we go at your own pace, making sure you are learning what you need to know at the level you are at.
- Learn everything from setting up WordPress, to installing and configuring Themes and Plugins, to adding pages, posts, images, video, links, to setting up and managing User Roles.
- Within the time allocated we'll teach you everything you need to know for building WordPress websites. For more advanced users we can even walk you through setting up WordPress Multi-Site if that's the what you want to learn.
- Once you've spent some time training with us and know WordPress well, at your option we can extend training and consulting to include real-life usage of WordPress...from best-practices for SEO, to best plugins to use, to sliders, to theme frameworks, to design, to marketing advice, and more. We can become your 'virtual in-house' WordPress, website, and marketing experts, getting you where you need to go, and saving you money along the way.
- Satisfaction guaranteed!
Personalized WordPress Training is available by request and based on an hourly rate. Usually we can set up a time within the next couple of days.
Call 303-888-5140 or use the web form below…
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WordPress Users Want To Learn More
We think there is a huge community of WordPress users who have some level of WordPress knowledge, but they want to learn more about WordPress.
Also many people are trying to figure out how to match up the technical stuff that they learn about WordPress and the web, with real and practical ways that they can apply these things to their website and their business.
Existing Resources
There are plenty of existing resources available to assist folks who want to learn WordPress, like online video tutorials, books, and even paid training by the hour. We even offer our own version of online WordPress Tutorials and Personalized One-On-One and Group WordPress Training…
We're Filling The Gap With 'WordPress Interactive Training'
WordPress Interactive Training (meetup group)
But we think there's still a huge need for low cost, hands-on, very practical, "this is what I need to learn, show me how to do it" type of WordPress Interactive Training.
And there's also a need for case-by-case WordPress Help and Support for those struggling with specific issues with their WordPress website, or things that they need specific help with that aren't covered by online tutorials.
So we started the WordPress Interactive Training (meetup group).
Meetup.com
WordPress Interactive Training Meetup Group
WHAT
The purpose of this group is to provide valuable WordPress Help & Training to anyone already using WordPress or interested in learning more about WordPress./
WordPress Help & Training will be provided by a WordPress Expert, usually via web conference , and sometimes (maybe later) in a face-to-face group setting .
Currently our web conference trainings are limited to 15 people, but we anticipate raising that limit at some point.
For the occasional face-to-face meetups we'll wait to pick a venue that will work well once we see how many people we need to support (most likely it will be either downtown Denver, or the West or Southwest areas of Denver).
Whatever format we use we will always have an open forum where you can ask questions and get answers to specific issues that will instantly help you with your WordPress website and your business.
What you will learn:
- WordPress Platform
- WordPress Plugins (best free and commercial/premium plugins to use)
- WordPress Dashboard (customization and best related plugins)
- WordPress Themes (best free and commercial/premium themes to use and theme customization)
- Pages, Posts, Custom Post Types, Post Formats (and best related plugins)
- Page Templates
- Media: Images (uploading, editing, replacing) , Video, Links (and best related plugins)
- Users & User Roles (and best related plugins)
- CSS Cascading Style Sheets (and best related plugins)
- SEO Search Engine Optimization (and best related plugins)
- WordPress Tips & Techniques
- Converting a WordPress.com Blog to a WordPress.org Website/Blog
- WordPress Multisite (and best related plugins)
- Membership Sites (and best related plugins)
- Ecommerce Sites (and best related plugins)
- Advertising (and best related plugins)
- Image Galleries (and best related plugins)
- Featured Content Sliders (and best related plugins)
- Gravity Forms Configuration (conditional fields, auto-responders, email routing, and addon plugins)
- Social Media Integration (and best related plugins)
- Using WordPress as a CMS (Content Management Sytstem)
- WordPress for Mobile & iPad
- Website Optimization
- BuddyPress
- Marketing Techniques
- WordPress Hosting
- Upgrades
- Troubleshooting Problems
And more! (suggest a topic)
Online Training Video
The video taken of each online training session will be available at a separate small cost (currently $5), and will be made available publicly to anyone interested (whether they paid for the training session or not, or are a member of this group or not).
The videos will be available through my WordPress website ( http://SiteSubscribe.com) since meetup isn't set up for that, but I hope to make links to the trainings available somewhere on this meetup site for easy access. Stay tuned for more info about how to access the videos.
Additional Resources
There is a link on the Discussions page that is a resource if you need specific help on something: Resources for WordPress Support. Also, don't forget that you can post questions or issues you are having on the Discussions page of this group, someone within the group may be willing to offer some advice.
If you have any other suggestions to help improve the group, just get in touch with me.
Everybody loves WordPress! No matter what level of WordPress user you are, everyone needs to learn more about how to use WordPress plugins , themes , and techniques to enhance their website or blog!
Social Media and Marketing tips and Small Business Operations 'best practices' advice will also be provided along the way as an added bonus!
WHO
This is a national group, not specific to any region.
This group is for:
- WordPress users from Beginning to Advanced.
- Those wanting to learn more about WordPress.
- Those wanting to know the best plugins to use for this or that.
- Businesses, Organizations, and Individuals using WordPress.
- Bloggers.
- Those considering moving over to WordPress from another CMS or blogging system.
The WordPress Help & Training meetup group is mainly for WordPress users...teaching WordPress to business owners, website managers, and bloggers who want to go deeper.
Although it would probably be helpful for beginning level developers, it's not meant to be a web developer training (I don't expect to get into developing themes, plugins, APIs). This group is less about custom coding and WordPress 'hacks', and more about what you can do with WordPress with off-the-shelf plugins and themes.
We will teach on how to configure and customize themes and configure plugins, and which ones are best to use based on your needs and requirements (the best plugins to use for the particular topic at hand will be covered extensively in almost every training).
There will definitely be good WP tips and tricks, and marketing and social media tips!
I expect this group to really grow and take off, and even go national...so get in early!
Co-organizers & WordPress Trainers Wanted!
If you are an Advanced or Expert WordPress user and want to get more involved in this group by planning or presenting, or partnering in any other way, we welcome your participation...please contact Jeff Kemp 303-888-5140.
WHERE / WHEN
This is a national group not limited to a specific geographical region since most of our meetups will be virtual. Please check our meetups for locations and times.
Most of our meetups will be ' virtual ', held via web conference so that it is more convenient and so that more people can attend (without geographic limitations).
Online Video Trainings from most of our WordPress Trainings via web conference will be made available.
HOW MUCH
Some of our meetings/trainings will be free, but most of our meetings/trainings will involve a small cost (currently $19) to cover our time and resources for preparing, presenting, and sharing our valuable WordPress Expertise .
We don't charge a Membership Dues, so you are free to join and get in on the discussion, and then only pay for the training topics that interest you.
Personalized WordPress Training
By request, Personalized WordPress Training is also available for specialized one-on-one or class-based WordPress Help & Training arranged by appointment for those that have specific needs such as a particular indepth topic, feature, or technique they need to learn (like ecommerce, membership, social media, or anything).
Just let us know what you need to learn and we'll set up a training just for you and your team.
- One-on-one Personalized WordPress Training (1 hr minimum)
- Class-based Training for Your Team (your whole team of up to 15 people can attend at the same price!) (2 hr minimum)
- Includes an Online Video Training from the WordPress Training we do with you via web conference!
Personalized WordPress Training is available by request and based on an hourly rate.
For more information about Personalized WordPress Training please see our » Personalized One-On-One and Group WordPress Training « page.
Premium Technical Support
By request, Premium WordPress Technical Support is also available as a special one-on-one WordPress Help & Training for those that have immediate needs or a problem with their WordPress website, plugins, themes, CSS, or anything related to their WordPress website.
Premium WordPress Technical Support is available by request and based on an hourly rate.
For more information about Premium WordPress Technical Support please see our » WordPress Support « page.
Thanks, and I hope to see you in an upcoming training soon!
~Jeff Kemp
WordPress Help & Training - Organizer
303-888-5140
WordPress Interactive Training
Meetup.com
Note: All meetups and web conferences are subject to video/audio recording. Reuse of recordings or any related materials or content such as emails or discussion postings is at our sole discretion.
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Meta Data Character Limits – What are the character limits when adding meta data to a web page?
SiteSubscribe : March 12, 2012 12:37 pm : Blog, Knowledgebase, SEOWhat Are Meta Data and Meta Tags?
Adding meta data to a web page is an important part of ‘on-page’ SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for your website. This meta data helps to tell the search engines what your website or any given web page is about, and sometimes more importantly, can show well-written relevant information about your website in the search engine results to the human person doing the searching.
The meta data are stored within the following ‘meta tags‘
- Page Title
- Page Description
- Keywords
There are a few other less used meta tags, but we won’t discuss those since they are far less important when it comes to SEO.
Meta tags are stored within the header of your website for search engines to crawl so they know what your web page is about in addition to crawling your content. The meta tags are not displayed visibly for your website visitors, but are there solely for search engines, and for the benefit of your website visibility within search engines.
Example of meta tags in your website’s header:
<head> <meta name="description" content="This is an example of a meta description. This will often show up in search results."> </head>Meta Data Character Limits
There are character limits associated with each type of meta tag. This is because search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and such have a particular algorithm they use, and any data that falls outside of the usable character limitation is ignored, and in fact perhaps may even be counter productive when trying to get good search engine rankings. Think of it like cropping an image, where anything outside of the crop area is discarded and considered useless.
Known Meta Data Character Limitations:
- Page Title: 70 chars
- Page Description: 159 chars
- Keywords: exact limit unknown, but thought to be around 10 Keyword phrases or 120 chars (separated by commas)
Search Engine Algorithms
The actual algorithms used by search engines and the weight of each meta tag in relation to it’s influence on search engine results is different for each search engine, and is generally quite a mystery…and is constantly changing. So to optimize your website for search engines it is recommended to use current best practices at any given time based on the knowledge of experienced SEO Experts. Usually a little research on the internet will yield some good SEO advice (some good links to SEO advice provided below).
Some Basic SEO Advice
Is there value in using the Keywords meta tag?
As of 2009 Google (and more recently Bing) both ignore the Keyword meta tag, but at least Google uses the Page Description meta tag. So it’s a good idea to focus on a thoughtful and well-written Page Description.
Even though some search engines like Google ignore the Keyword meta tag, many other search engines and directories do not ignore Keywords, so if time allows go ahead and optimize the Keyword meta tag for your most important web pages.
- Spend more time on adding quality original content to your website, and less time worrying about optimizing meta tags. This is because more and more lately the search engines are using content rather than meta tags to influence web page ranking.
- Spend a little time to create a well-written Page Description for each page/post of your website that contains some of your Primary Keywords that are also embedded within your page content.
- Even though Google ignores the Keyword meta tag, many other search engines do not ignore Keywords, so if time allows go ahead and optimize the Keyword meta tag for your most important web pages.
- Having a succinct list of keywords can also serve to help you when creating your content so that you intentionally use some of those keywords, and particularly helps you to use your primary Keywords (the first couple of keywords in your list that are the real focus of your page).
- For your Keyword meta tag use keywords that are found within your page content (otherwise don’t bother using those keywords as they’ll serve no purpose).
- Keywords can be made up of phrases of words that are separated by commas. So put in phrases to help make your keywords more meaningful, and to make your keywords less competitive, as shown below.
website design
(very broad and highly competitive keyword)
vs.
website design company Denver
(more narrow keyword, though still competitive it is not as competitive)
Resource Links
Here are some good articles on the subject of optimizing your website meta tags for SEO:
www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/meta-description
sitesubscribe.com/blog/wordpress-seo-site-optimization-strategies-techniques/
Deactivate WP Smush.it When Not In Use
SiteSubscribe : March 9, 2012 8:32 am : Blog, Knowledgebase, PluginsWP Smush.it (link to plugin developer) is a good plugin used to compress WordPress images (known as ‘image optimization’) that helps your website pages to load faster.
Unfortunately, when left activated WP Smush.it slows down your site…so it has the opposite effect it is meant to achieve!
What We Recommend
So we recommend you only activate this plugin as needed (when adding images) to get the benefit of image compression for new images that are uploaded, then deactivate it immediately when done uploading images since it will slow down your site.
Use Only As Needed
Since activating and deactivating the WP Smush.it plugin every time you want to add a post or page is a hassle, you can leave it deactivated most of the time, then run a ‘bulk Smush.it’ once in a while to compress any images that you may have missed.
Bulk Smush.it will run through all of your images at one time and compress (or even re-compress) any images it can. Bulk smushing can take a few minutes to process.
WordPress SEO Site Optimization Strategies & Techniques
SiteSubscribe : March 2, 2012 3:54 pm : Blog, Knowledgebase, Plugins, SEO, Tools We Recommend, WordPress Training
Optimize your WordPress website with SEO.
This powerful PowerPoint slide presentation was created by SiteSubscribe and used during a recent WordPress Interactive Training.
During this presentation we explore some great SEO strategies and ‘SEO Fundamentals‘ to achieve best search engine results for your WordPress website:
- We’ll cover:
- √ Permalinks
- √ Onpage Optimization
- √ Page Load Speed
- We’ll also touch on:
- √ Internal Crosslinking
- √ External Backlinks/Linkbuilding
- The best SEO plugins to use.
- How to use the recommended SEO plugins.
- How to optimize pages/posts with On-Page SEO.
Please let us know if this helped you at all by adding your comments and liking/sharing this post.
Latest Shopp WordPress Ecommerce Plugin Upgrade
SiteSubscribe : February 7, 2012 8:14 pm : Blog, Knowledgebase, PluginsThe long awaited version 1.2 upgrade to the Shopp ecommerce plugin for WordPress by Ingenesis Limited was released today. We love Shopp and use it on many customer sites. We also recommend Shopp to folks on a regular basis even if we aren’t involved in building or hosting their website because we believe it is one of the best e-commerce solutions available for WordPress.
New Shopp Documentation
Along with the plugin upgrade the developers of Shopp have also upgraded their documentation. There is a brand new Shopp Downloadable User’s Guide available here.
New Features In Shopp 1.2
The latest version of Shopp brings many exciting and long anticipated new features. Some of the top new features that Shopp version 1.2 brings with it include:
Borrowed directly from the official Shopp ecommerce plugin page:
- Migrated Shopp catalog data to use WordPress custom post types and custom taxonomies
- Added support for WordPress Menus to Shopp content including Shopp virtual pages and smart product collections
- Improved permalink handling for better canonical URLs and SEO
- Support for product comments by using custom post types for products
- Improved compatibility with WordPress post/page related plugins such as SEO plugins
- Re-engineered the
shopp()Theme API template tags to use a new, completely extensible system that allows developers full control- New Shopp menu uses three main menus: Shopp, Catalog & Setup
- Shopp now supports 230+ countries
- Guest checkout is fully supported
- Added the ability to custom link customers to WordPress users
- Added new smart collections including:
- Recently Viewed to show the last 25 recently viewed products
- Also Bought using a sophisticated relationship algorithm to match products other customers have purchased
- Promo Products collection system that builds new smart product collections for the products that each catalog promotion applies to speed optimizations including WordPress cache support and a redesigned product collection query engine for 900x faster queries and scalability up to hundreds of thousands to a million product catalog
- Added support for authorization-only transactions with delayed capture for proper retail order processing
- Added support for refunds and cancellations
- Added shipment notices that include tracking number status URLs
- Added support for subscriptions to PayPal Standard
More Info
Jeff Kemp (author of this blog and SiteSubscribe founder) has recently been helping as a Tech Support rep for Ingenesis, the developers of Shopp, as part of their Help Desk team. So if you need help customizing your WordPress website with Shopp, get in touch with us.
Read more about the full list of all of the new features for Shopp v1.2, and how to upgrade if you already own Shopp from the official Shopp blog:
Premise Landing Pages WordPress Plugin by CopyBlogger/StudioPress
SiteSubscribe : August 7, 2011 2:09 pm : Blog, Commercial Plugins, Knowledgebase, Plugins, Plugins We Recommend, Service FeaturesWordPress Landing Pages Made Easy!
If you’ve ever built (or tried to build) a landing page in WordPress to get people to join your email list, contact you, or buy something, you know how frustrating it can be.
Remove the sidebars. Change the header. Find the right images. Play with color, add an opt-in form that looks nice, add video, etc.
The Premise landing page software from StudioPress was built to solve these problems for you (and more).
Premise is our plugin for WordPress that takes all the hassle out of building effective landing pages that get results. And it does it all in conjunction with the Genesis Theme Framework from StudioPress, right from inside WordPress.
Beyond page building and design, you also get copywriting advice from inside WordPress, plus copywriting and conversion optimization seminars — all at no extra charge. Premise is the total package when it comes to getting people to take the action you’re looking for.
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Quickly and easily create 7 critical landing page styles in WordPress, add visual flair with included custom graphics, and control fonts, colors, and styles without code.
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Make your words work with copywriting advice delivered directly from your WordPress interface for each type of landing page, plus the Premise Guide to Effective Copy.
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Detailed conversion optimization seminars, easy split-testing from WordPress, and SEO tools ensure that you’re getting the absolute most out of your landing pages.
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Quickly create sales, email, video, SEO, tabbed, and pricing pages
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Works with any WordPress theme
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1,100+ custom graphics by Rafal
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Point-and-click design controls
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Ongoing copywriting and conversion seminars
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Specific copywriting advice inside WordPress
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Updates for the life of the product
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Ongoing technical support
Here’s the point … we’ve included Premise on a trial basis from free to SiteSubscribe members. If you end up using Premise you’ll need to pay about $85 for a license for use with your website.
Try Premise today!
PluginBuddy Developer Suite of Premium Plugins Now Included FREE
SiteSubscribe : May 14, 2011 2:49 pm : Blog, Commercial Plugins, Featured, Plugins, Plugins We Recommend, Service Features
PluginBuddy from iThemes
We just included the entire PluginBuddy Developer Suite of Premium Plugins within every Website Package:
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BackupBuddy for website backups
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EmailBuddy Plugin for Email Newsletters
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DisplayBuddy (Slideshow, Video Showcase, Carousel, Featured Posts, Rotating Text, Billboard, Rotating Images, Copious Comments)
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VidEmbed
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Thumbsup
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Mobile
EmailBuddy from WebDesign.com on Vimeo.
VidEmbed Preview from WebDesign.com on Vimeo.
Tutorial: Logging Into Your WordPress Dashboard
SiteSubscribe : March 29, 2011 9:53 am : Blog, Knowledgebase, Training & Tutorials, WordPress for Beginners, WordPress Training
WordPress Tutorial
Logging Into Your WordPress Dashboard To Update Your Website Content
This video gives a 5 minute introductory walk-through for new users to get started managing their website by learning how log into the WordPress Dashboard.
(This video does not cover additional functionality such as how to add or edit pages or posts.)
This is a Youtube embedded video.
Difficulty level: 2 out of 10
Things to Keep in Mind When Starting an Online Store
SiteSubscribe : March 5, 2011 3:52 pm : Blog, Ecommerce, Knowledgebase, WordPress for BeginnersOf course, SiteSubscribe can help guide you through the maze of ecommerce by helping select which plugins are best to use for your ecommerce store, helping build and configure your site and your ecommerce configuration, etc., but here’s another great resource article from GetShopped.org, the folks who make the renowned WP-eCommerce plugin for WordPress:
There are a few things to keep in mind as you get started with ecommerce or the WP e-Commerce plugin. We’ve made this comprehensive list based on our own experiences with advise for setting up the best WordPress e-Commerce store as well as industry rules and best practices.
Things to Keep in Mind When Starting an Online Store (More…)
Optimizing Images for the Internet and Image Manipulation Tools
SiteSubscribe : February 18, 2011 2:38 pm : Blog, Knowledgebase, Tools We RecommendWhich Image Type Should You Use On Your Website?
Different Formats
There are four primary formats to choose from when optimizing images for the internet. Each format stores and compresses image information differently. These four main formats include PNG-8, PNG-24, GIF, and JPEG. Below we will discuss the different formats and what images they work best with.
GIF
The GIF format is a bit-mapped image format and is the most commonly used format for web graphics. It supports up to 256 colors, transparency, and animation. Typically the PNG-8 format compresses better for most web images, although for really small images, or images that require transparency or animation, GIF is an ideal choice.
JPEG
The JPEG (JPG) format works well for photographs and other large images with many colors because of it’s lossy compression algorithm. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. This often allows large images to be compressed more than any other format with little or no perceptible loss of image quality
PNG-8
The Portable Network Graphics is a bit-mapped image format that uses a loss-less data compression algorithm. It was designed to be a replacement for the patented GIF’s. This format does not support transparency, translucency, or animation. This format is the best choice for most internet graphics.
PNG-24
PNG-8 and PNG-24 are the same format, however when transparency, translucency, or more than 256 colors are used, 24 bits are used to represent each pixel instead of 8. This increases the size of the image and can usually be avoided. If only transparency is required than use the GIF format instead. Also try to avoid translucency by flattening the images so that you can use an image format with less overhead.
Choosing the Right Format
Adobe Photoshop has a nice feature within the “File -> Save for Web” function. It allows a nice 4-up view where you can compare the file size of three different image settings and compare the quality with the original. First compare the different formats GIF (with 256 colors), JPEG (high quality), or PNG-8 (with 256 colors) and decide which format is best suited for the given image based on the resulting image size. If JPEG is the best choice try to further compress the image by reducing the quality to an acceptable level. For PNG-8 or GIF images, try to compress the image further by reducing the number of colors used by the image. Often times you can reduce the number of colors down to 128, or even 64 colors, without any noticeable effect to the human eye.
Above content borrowed from: http://www.getsnappy.com/web-optimization/improving-page-load-times.html
Crop and Size Your Images Before Uploading
Image Resolution
One of the best things you can do to optimize your images is to save them as 72dpi before uploading them (72 dpi or ‘dots per inch’ is computer screen resolution). Images above 72dpi have no visual improvement when viewing them on the web, and can create very slow page loads for your website. If you are using a photo taken with a digital camera it becomes very important to reduce the image resolution before uploading them to your website since today’s digital cameras capture very large images that aren’t optimized for websites.
Image Size
It’s also important to crop your images to a reasonable size before uploading them to your website. Sizing and cropping your image to generally no larger than 500px to 600px wide can help your page load speeds. Sometimes you can get away with 250px wide depending on how your are using your image.
If you are using an image at a reduced size on your website, and never reference the full size image, then you would benefit from creating a copy of the image, resizing and cropping it, and saving it as a new file name before uploading it to your website. This will help to optimize your page load speed so that you are only pulling in images at the minimum required sizes.
If you are referencing an image on your website in more than one size than save and upload the image as the largest size required. You can then reference smaller sizes, and since the image is cached on the first view, the various sizes will load quickly.
It also helps to make sure your IMG tags in your HTML are calling out the size attributes to also help optimize page load speed.
Image Optimization Tools We Use
WordPress has its own image sizing and cropping tool built-in, so that is a good option if you need to crop or downsize an image. But often we need to do more image optimization beyond simply sizing an image. That’s where we look to some of our favorite Image Optimization Tools for Macs:
- The Preview application that comes with Macs is useful for quickly downsizing image size, image resolution, and cropping images…and it’s free since it comes pre-installed with every Mac (free).
- EasyBatchPhoto is a very affordable image utility for converting, sizing, and watermarking images, especially when you need to perform image manipulation on ‘batches’ of images ($24).
- EasyCrop excels at screen captures, image sizing, image conversion, and offers full drag-and-drop support ($12).
- ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations (free).
- Photoshop – no list of image editing tools would be complete without Photoshop, but of course, it is very expensive and has a steep learning curve, so it isn’t for everyone. We use Photoshop almost everyday, but if there’s another tool that can get the job done quicker we’ll use it since Photoshop takes a long time to load, and is a huge memory hog. However, Photoshop’s ‘save for web’ function is very useful for sizing, converting, and optimizing images for best results. Photoshop even provides an indication of how big a file will be when saved for web, and how long in seconds it will take to download, which is very useful info for web designers ($700 – $1,000).
Have some good Image Optimization Tools for Mac or PC? Please leave a comment so others can benefit.
http://wordpresstutorials.tv nice WordPress Tutorials
SiteSubscribe : January 7, 2011 9:10 am : Blog, Knowledgebase, Training & Tutorialshttp://wordpresstutorials.tv nice WordPress Tutorials mostly in video (WordPress Themes | WordPress Plugins | How To Blog | Video Tutorials)
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Learning WordPress
With SiteSubscribe we build your website and add your content for you…totally turnkey.
Depending on which Website Package you purchase there is a certain level of content that we can add to your website when we set your website up. From there, once your site is up, any additional customizations that you want us to do like adding or editing content or to customize any design elements, are available as an Addon Service.
But the beauty of building your website on WordPress is that you, as our client, always have the option to make updates to your own website content yourself if you want to!
View any of the Video Tutorials on this page to learn how to use WordPress to add, update, and manage your own website content.
Learn a Little, Do a Lot
Investing just a little bit of time learning WordPress will give you great satisfaction knowing you can update your own website content.
To learn how to update your own website using WordPress you just need to spend a little bit of time going through some of our WordPress Tutorial Videos listed on this page.
If you’d prefer, we can also arrange a WordPress Training with you and your team via web conference. Just let us know. (An initial Training is included with all websites we build, then after that there is an Addon Service charge for any additional Training).
Where To Start?
A good place to start learning about WordPress, either before or after we do some training with you, is by watching WordPress tutorial videos.
This page contains some WordPress Tutorials that we have selected that will demonstrate how you can make minor updates to your own website content.
We’re still in process of creating and posting some tutorial vides here, so check back often for the latest videos.
