Before you decide to create your first business website…or even upgrade your current site, be sure to take into consideration the layout of your site first. It’s really important that you develop your site so that it’s easily accessible and easy to read for your site visitors. You want to make sure your visitors stay beyond the first few seconds that they land on your home page and review what you have to offer. If they are not interested, immediately, they exit out of your website!

So consider these few important points when planning your website layout:

• Grab a piece of paper and pencil & sketch out several layouts
• Choose the layout you like the most
• Find a WordPress theme that closely correlates with your layout
• Name your website and purchase your domain name

Here are just a few samples of layouts you can use as a guide when you are crafting your site layout:

Now that you have mapped out your website layout design, your next steps will be whether you want to create your website using a traditional HTML program or WordPress. Well, it’s a given what I’m going to recommend to you. Build your dynamic marketing-magnet website using WordPress, or course!

Start off by reviewing the different pre-made themes that hundreds of developers have created for you. My top themes list can be found here. Be sure they match up with the layout you chose for your website. Then once you have chosen a theme you want to use for your site, you are ready to move forward with the development. If you are interested in having WordPress to Website build your next website, feel free to visit the PLANS page here.

Join me, Aletha McManama, your WordPress Expert, Designer and Trainer, where I will be hosting via a FREE 60-minute live webinar…

“The WordPress Website Creation Online
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This info-packed webinar will take place on Thursday, May 13 at 12 PM EST (11 AM CST, 10 AM MTN, 9 AM PT)

You will come away from this webinar call with an understanding of:

• How to plan and map out your website layout

• What to look for when choosing a theme for your website

• What are the best enhancements (or plugins) to make your website more appealing

• What effective marketing techniques to use for your website

There will be time at the end of the call for questions, so please come prepared to have your most challenging questions asked and answered by me.

Hey, and if for some reason you miss the live webinar call, I’ll be sure and send you the recorded video/audio in your inbox shortly after the call ends. But I would certainly love to have you there “live” so you can ask questions and gain the most out of this webinar session. And did I mention that the call is FREE?!

I wouldn’t pass up this opportunity as I reveal tools and tips to maximize the effectiveness of your website creation and marketing efforts.

More information and registration HERE.

As one of the top plugins that I install one each one of my client WordPress sites and my own sites, there is a little added work involved to configure the WP-DB Manager plugin so that the little pesky error message that shows up at the top of your dashboard window disappears . And I’m referring to the one below:

Your backup folder MIGHT be visible to the public

To correct this issue, move the .htaccess file from wp-content/plugins/wp-dbmanager to /home/content/x/x/x/xxxxxxx/html/wordpresstowebsite/teleclasses/wp-content/backup-db

Well, it’s not as easy as the message reads!

What IS located in the wp-dbmanager sub-folder is an htaccess.txt file, but that’s not the correct file to move. Yes, go ahead and remove the htaccess.text file from the wp-dbmanager file. It’s okay to do that. Now the correct .htaccess file you need to copy and paste over to the backup-db sub-folder is the same .htaccess file you will find in the root directory of your website (or in your host server account). Look for the folder that reads, “wp-content”, and you will find the .htaccess file. Copy that file over to your hard drive using an FTP client like SmartFTP or a web-based client called net2ftp. Net2ftp is a free service whereas SmartFTP is not.

Then upload the .htaccess file from your hard drive over to the /backup-db sub-folder. Log into your WordPress site dashboard if you haven’t already, and check to see if the above error message has disappeared. If it did not, then I would refer to the documentation for this particular plugin, which you can find here:
http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-dbmanager.html