So here is this newly-installed blog. I wonder what  version of Wordpress it is? Ah - it’s 2.7 (my other blog is 2.6 at the moment).  So what’s the difference with WP 2.7? The interface looks different.

Meeting Notes (need to be edited):

People pay him (Enrique Gutierrez) to create WP themes. He did a blog post about it.

Here’s his post about Customizing Wordpress

1. Planning: personal, pro? Monetized? Ad placement. How many columns - 2, 3 (pro) 4 (annoying). PLugins. Discuss, sociable you can style - avoid the mess. what pages are you planning - image galery, carasel, portfolion, boxes god forbid, contact forms (Cform). How to remind peopel to come back (RSS…) , what colors - Colorjack.com.

2. Design. Go into Photoshop . Not only for blog posts but for searches, page not found. Wp also has navigation, parent child relationship, blogroll, navigaition issues. Then PHP. Just enough to know what you are looking at. Use default to see what is there, start modifying it, throw images, the layout, Then the phase is modifying.

codex site

WP has functions that are English-like names. Google funciton name - will come up with codex site.

XAMP - (cross platform) - put WP on it. Localhost. for dicking around with thesemes, the way to go. Apache friends.org (Sourceforge). Will install services, web server.

Do this with OS ? MySQL

3 column these - two sidebar files - easier if it’s in one file (a programmer faux pax but easier mainentance).

Wordpress these read in top of CSS file has info about the theme.  WP will inform people of new version if you uplaod. PNG file thumbnail screenshot. 240 x 180 pixel.

happyandfun.org?

Q: recreate look of a site that exists already. match header file you already have. edit each file that creates pages

Dreamweaver - WP themes?

Wireframe = CSS framwork (2, 3 columns, …)

Wordpress.org has good docs. Wordpress Camp, SF, NY. Matt is founder.

SEO for WP. Wordpress.org has. Post at Weblosers.org. No, webwizrds

1. Self-host. Customization.

permalink structure is not search engine friendly.

3. Customize titles, keywords up front - heavier weaight on firs couple of words. Optimize descriptions, grab title, url, description tag

Optimize More text. Cusomize this for each post, specific keywords, incoming links

optimize images embedded - alt tags, title tags

All-in-one SEO

related posts plugin

simple tags plugin

twitter - good for networking, faster than facebook, updating with seeing hwat peopel are doing in more real time

search.twitter.com

tweetup

danlarson

tweets. twitter plugin - noice way to update a blog if you haven’t posted for a while

oscommerce - link to it form a WP site, make it look like your site

downtownrob  WEbwizards