How to Design and Make Your Own WordPress Theme
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Marketing Products, WordPress
What follows is a video transcript (sorry, the video is not working for some reason) on a software called Artisteer which allows you to nearly instantly make your own WordPress themes. You can create your own WordPress themes very easily using a software called Artisteer.
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Transcript:
Hi there! This is Kristine Wirth from KristineWirth.com and today what I wanted to do is create a video that tells you how to design and make your very own WordPress theme using an awesome new software that I’ve just learned about.
The reason I decided to create this is because lately I’ve noticed that a lot of free wordpress themes on the market have begun to embed their own linking code within the footer that is encrypted which means is that if you try and remove those links you’re entire blog will stop working.
Typically what the provider of the free WordPress theme will do is add links to other sites that they own in the footer, or in other words at the very bottom of the website. Some of these links are harmless while others can lead out to websites that will hurt your blogs reputation.
For the record, I’m not referring to a link to the author’s website here. Because I strongly believe that you should continue to attribute the author of the WordPress theme. They did after all, create a free theme for you, put it on their hosting platform and allow anyone at all to download them for free.
What I’m referring to are those links that could hurt your search engine positions and those links that are encrypted so that if you try and disable them or remove them, your blog stops working all together. Why this matters is because WHO you link to DOES matter when it comes to the search engines.
For example, if you created a blog about “cute little puppies” but a search engine noticed that the footer of your blog linked out to gambling sites, loan sites and the like, you’re not going to gain much credibility in the search engines eyes.
Now, this is not a video / blog post on the legalities of these actions or the moral issues of these actions but rather just a way to show you how you can simply forget having to worry whether or not a free WordPress theme is linking out to undesirable websites and instead just create your own.
So, all that said, I was really excited when I learned about this new software which allows you to create your very own WordPress or Blogger theme, or an HTML page and not have to worry about those external links; plus it’s relatively cheap.
Additionally, you can use this software to create a theme exactly the way you want it. No more hunting around for the “perfect” theme.
So, let’s take a look shall we?
The software is called Artisteer and you can download a free copy to play around with all you want. It’s a fully functional copy of the software. However, if you haven’t purchased a license and attempt to download the themes you create there will be “trial” text over the entire site; and I’ll show you what that looks like here in a moment.
But first, let’s take a look at the software itself.
You can download a trial version in its entirety here.
When you first open the trial software, you’ll be provided with a few buttons. The first two, “try standard edition” and “try home edition” are what will get you into the software.
The difference between the two is this:
First the price – there’s about $70 difference between the two types. If you want to export the themes you create as Drupal, DotNetNuke and so on, you’ll need the standard edition but the home edition will allow you to download as WordPress and even as a blogger theme.
So we’ll head into the home edition.
Notice I’ve got three choices here. To either work on a Blogger template, a WordPress Template or even a straight HTML page.
We’ll choose WordPress.
A default theme will appear that you can then start to modify.
If you don’t want to do it piece by piece, you can simply click the button that says “suggest design” at the top of the page.
If you find a theme that you like while using “suggest design” but don’t like the colors, just click “suggest colors” and it will run you through a wide array of different color styles.
The same goes for fonts, layouts, backgrounds, buttons, blocks, article design, headers and more.
When you’re ready, just click “export” at the top of the page.
You can also click the artisteer logo on the top left to preview the template in a browser first.
If you decide to do a blogger template you can also upload the template directly to your blogger account.
Like I said, I was very impressed with this software. You don’t need to be a techie or have any kind of programming skills whatsoever.
Plus, if the software wasn’t already good enough, you can also redistribute or even sell the templates you create. The only caveat is that you cannot include the header-> foreground photos from the software. On their FAQ page, they offer a more detailed explanation.
So if you’ve always wanted to design and make your own wordpress themes without having to learn a bunch of coding language, this software is exactly what you need.
We’ll talk soon!
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You’ll Never Become a Super Affiliate Without Doing This…
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing
Super affiliates, those affiliates who make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year doing nothing but affiliate marketing, all have one thing in common.
They track what they’re doing….to the detail.
Super affiliates don’t get to where they’re at overnight. Nope. They start off their careers just like you, with almost no money to spend in advertising. The difference is, they realized early on that if they don’t keep track of what’s doing well and what’s not, they may as well throw money out the window.
We’re talking about people like:
- Jeremy Shoemaker of Shoemoney.com.
- Jay Stockwell of SpeedPPC.com
- Aymen from the ArbitrageConspiracy.com
- and Tim Houston from AffiliateLifestyle.com
You should know by now that I don’t recommend things lightly. And what I’m about to tell you will save you thousands of dollars. Literally.
The program I’m referring to is StatsJunky and it will change your affiliate life!
Why?
Because you’ll know in an instant if what you’re promoting is making you money or just pulling it out of your pocket.
As an example, there’s one affiliate in particular who set up a StatsJunky account and found that one of their neglected sites was actually converting at over 14% (which is unheard of by the way). Without knowing how well this site was converting, they very well would have overlooked it and lost out of thousands of dollars in sales.
What StatsJunky does is automatically download and update all of your affiliate stats. If you’ve been doing it the “old fashioned” way your typical day may have gone like this:
- Visit your affiliate site such as Clickbank.
- Login to your statistics area.
- Download the information.
- Add it to a spreadsheet.
- Visit another affiliate site.
- Get your stats.
- Download your stats.
- Add it to a spreadsheet.
- Continue this process until all of your program statistics were updated (including PPC ads).
- Place all of this into a spreadsheet.
- Try to figure out what was making you money and what wasn’t.
- Do this every day.
With StatsJunky you’ll never have to do this again.
Every last one of the programs that you’re promoting as well as the way that you’re promoting them (AdWords for example) is stored and updated within StatsJunky on your own computer in its own encrypted file.
There are over 200 (and growing) programs supported by StatsJunky including:
- ClickBank
- AdWords
- Ad On Network
- 1ShoppingCart
- Aweber
- Azoogle
- CPA Empire
- Profit Center
- Yahoo Publisher
- and tons more!
And in the event your program isn’t listed, just request it and they’ll get the data for you.
Ok, that’s great but now what?
The best thing about StatsJunky is that you can see at a glance what’s making you money and what’s not.
You can sort by things like:
- Impressions
- Clicks
- Sales
- Leads
- Rebills
- Refunds
- EPC/CPC
- Conversion Ratio
- Earnings
- Projected earnings per year
- and more.
Additionally, for those of you who use PPC ads, you can even drill down to the keyword level on your campaigns to see which keywords are giving you the most return on your investment. Then you can simply get rid of those under-performing keywords and move that traffic to the higher performing keywords.
While all this is fantastic in and of itself, I haven’t even touched on all of the different statistics you can get by using StatsJunky.
Now, I promised you that I’d tell you how to save thousands of dollars on this product…well, here it is…
For a VERY LIMITED TIME, until July 31st 2009, or until all 1,418 spots have been taken, you can get StatsJunky for only $297 FOR LIFE!
Why are they doing this? Well, it’s their birthday sale.
Why is this such a big deal? Because this NEVER happens. “Regular” customers have to pay $99 a month! But during this promotion you get StatsJunky for only $297 for LIFE!
That saves you over $1,000 a year!
Remember, you will never become a super-affiliate if you don’t understand where your traffic is coming from, if it’s taking money from you or making you a bundle without tracking statistics.
Every successful affiliate marketer knows where they’re income is coming from and where their money’s going.
If you don’t, you are just throwing money down the drain.
Again, you can get lifetime access to StatsJunky for only $297 but ONLY until July 31st, 2009.
And like all quality products, they offer a 30-day, no questions asked money back guarantee.
Visit the site and click the green button that says “Limited Time Offer – Only $297 for Life”.
*Click on any of the affiliate links above to get the $297 Lifetime Offer – but only until July 31st, 2009.*
