One social media customization that I don’t see very many people taking advantage of is customizing your YouTube channel. Last month, I did one of these for a gentleman named Kenny Point who is an expert on gardening.
Now, a lot of people may not know that the only way to be able to add a header to your YouTube channel is to be a YouTube partner. But there are ways to get around that.
Here’s what we did with the Veggie Gardening Tips channel:
Home Study Consultant is another one of those sites that needed to be mostly static since it’s intended for an “online business card” type of site rather than a blog. I love using WordPress for these because it’s so easy for both the designer (me!) and the client. Using a flexible theme like Headway makes it easy for me to get the look they want and using WordPress makes it easy for them to update it with articles and blog posts or even make simple changes to the content.
Now for the screen shot:
(You can’t tell from the screenshot but the image on the front page is one of four rotating images, done by using the Image Rotator Leaf in Headway.)
Another Headway site, made to be more of a “static” site with a blog added as opposed to primarily a blogging site.
SIN is one of the bands I work with as a social media manager for indie & unsigned bands. Their old site was desperately outdated and just about everything on it was incomplete and just linked back to their MySpace page. So they needed something more modern, current, and easy to update. We also used some widgets from Reverb Nation to add their shows and music to the site.
As always, a screenshot:
I am LOVING the Headway theme. So much so that I’m using it on all of my sites (although I don’t have all of them transferred over just yet.)
The first site I used it on is my own “work at home” blog, AprilTara.com. It took me about 1 hour and only one line of code in the custom CSS to get this done. That’s how easy Headway is! And flexible…I’ve done several more sites since this one, all using Headway and all with totally different styles.
Ok, here’s the screenshot:
If you’re a designer, you’ll LOVE this video. I cracked up…my boyfriend just looked at me like I was nuts.
Recently I posted about a contest over at Profitable Mommy Blogging in which the winner would take over ownership of Because Mom Said So from Carrie Lauth and I would transfer the blog from Blogger to WordPress then customize the new theme.
Here are a few screenshots of how the project progressed:
How it originally looked on [...]
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