Customizing Your New Blog

Today's Glossary

Theme = The appearance of your blog. The theme determines the

colors, graphics, layout, style, and general appearance of your blog.

FTP = File Transfer Protocol (the process of adding files from your

computer to your web server)

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You should now have your new blog, so let's focus on making it look

great.

Finding a Kickass Design For Your Blog

It took me a lot of time and money to get www.deanhunt.com to look

the way it does today, in fact, I know of people who have spent

thousands of dollars on their blog theme.

But I have since learned of a way of getting a really cool looking

site at a fraction of the cost and effort.

There is a company called WooThemes that have premium themes that

you can install onto your blog to make it look awesome.

If I had to go back and do it all again, I would definitely use them.

Yes, there are some fr ee themes out there, but often they are not

worth the hassle. What's more, they often look generic, don't have

premium features built-in, and can lead to problems later down the road.

The WooThemes themes not only look superb, but they are built to be

powerful and easy to use. So go and check them out.

Uploading Your WooThemes Theme

Have you purchased your amazing new theme?

Ok, well now we need to install it, so here goes:

You can make this process a lot easier by using an FTP (File

Transfer Protocol) application.

If you use a Windows PC, then I recommend CoreFTP, you can grab a

free copy of this here: CoreFTP Download

If you have a Mac, then I use a program called "Transmit" which is

approx $17.00 Download Transmit Here

I have also used a program called "Fetch" which has a fr ee trial

Download Fetch Here

The goal here is to transfer your WooTheme files that you have

downloaded onto your computer, and transfer them to your

HostGator server.

Open your third party FTP program, look for an option like

"connect" or "accounts" and fill in the required details.

In most cases you will need the following information:

Server: e.g DeanHunt.com

Username: e.g deano

Password: e.g password123

Next, locate your theme folder from your computer via the FTP

program, and transfer it to the themes folder on your server.

This is likely to be found via:

Public_html - Wp-content - Themes

So drag the theme folder to the themes folder, and await

confirmation that it has uploaded (transferred) the theme to your

server.

Once you have done this, login to your Wordpress Admin

(yourdomain.com/admin) and click Appearance and you will see your

theme, click it and a preview will open up and then in the top

right corner is a button saying 'Activate', click it and your theme

will now work!

Done!

All of the FTP programs have help and tutorials, so if you get

confused you can check them... if you prefer not to do this yourself,

my team can do this for you for just $47

Simply email me at dean@buzzprofits.com with the subject

"FTP help needed"

Coming Next

In the next email we will show you how to ensure your blog gets

featured in the Google search results, and, we will show you how

to help get your blog to number one in the search results.