Themes and Modifications
Already have a Wordpress blog installed on your domain and the theme is just not floating your boat? You don’t have to be disappointed in the appearance of your blog.
I can help.
I can customize any theme to make it more you. Color, fonts and images. Layout. Add in new features or display elements. Marketing a product and want to highlight it on your site without disrupting the flow of information? Want to add more advertising space? Want to rearrange your blog so your content is highlighted rather than just hanging out there?
I will work with you to get your blog looking exactly like you want, doing exactly what you want, and with a minimum of fuss.
Some typical theme revisions costs are shown below. (Please contact me for additional options)
Includes: Installation and Configuration of the Wordpress theme of your choice and 2 hours of one on one customizations.
Samples Of My Work
I subscribe to the belief that a picture is worth a thousand words, and God knows you don’t have time to read a thousand words. You are looking for a solution. These are the most recent of the blogs I have tweaked, installed or customized. The brief description doesn’t really fully explain what all was done, but each site was exactly what the client asked for.
Law Business Tips
Attorney and business woman Nancy Byerly Jones was looking to merge her business website with her blog into a single site. Not wanting to lose the professional appearance of the website or the ease of use with the blog, Nancy decided on eBusiness from Elegant Themes.
Theme: Elegant Themes
Customizations: Custom image for header, changes to the navigation methods to allow the blog entries to be featured as heavily as the pages, tabbed areas, edits to theme to allow editing posts and pages without the need to go to the dashboard first, edits to the CSS to change fonts and colors.
Eco Friendly Green Earth
While a lot depends on the theme you choose, and we can certainly recommend some of the best themes out there, having your message match your theme and vice versa goes a long way to promoting the image you want.
This site is all about living Green so a custom header image was created and the overall appearance shaped to support that vision.
Theme: Elegant Themes
Customizations: Custom image for header, edits to theme to allow editing posts and pages without the need to go to the dashboard first, sizing of the thumbnails, edits to the CSS to change fonts and colors.
Shelley Martlew
Former body builder, current Mom and health specialistic Shelley Martlew was looking for a professional appearing blog format to share her information about Pregnancy, Detoxification and family safe health practices with the world.
Theme: Studio Press
Customizations: Custom image for header, tabbed areas, edits to theme to allow editing posts and pages without the need to go to the dashboard first, edits to the CSS to change fonts and colors and removal of featured content gallery. We replaced the moving gallery with a custom video and contact information to increase her professional appearance
Autism News-Elf
Cool blue is soothing, which is exactly the right tone for this type of blog. Video was brought into the sidebar to highlight related content and the category list was altered to give it a cleaner look.
Theme: Elegant Themes
Customizations: Custom image for header, edits to theme to allow editing posts and pages without the need to go to the dashboard first, sizing of the thumbnails, edits to the CSS to change fonts and colors.
Ann Barr
Professional author and Sales training specialist, Ann Barr was looking to replace her old web blog with a new fresh look that was crisp and well defined.
Theme: Elegant Themes
Customizations: Custom image for header, edits to theme to allow editing posts and pages without the need to go to the dashboard first, sizing of the thumbnails, edits to the CSS to change fonts and colors. New page formats for displaying her eBooks in a sales page type format and addition of thumbnails on the inner pages.
Gardening Resources
Gardening is a popular niche market and this blog stands out within that niche. To match the topic of gardening, a custom header with vine like script was created and colors matched to the navigation bars.
Theme: Elegant Themes
Customizations: Custom image for header, edits to theme to allow editing posts and pages without the need to go to the dashboard first, sizing of the thumbnails, edits to the CSS to change fonts and colors.
Arthur Cummins
A professional grade theme, image is important so we worked to capture the understated grace of the *bankers* persona with both colors and images.
Theme: Studio Press
Customizations: Custom image for header, edits to theme to allow editing posts and pages without the need to go to the dashboard first, edits to the CSS to change fonts and colors.
RC Model World
RC Models and the associated accessories and toys needed a light and lively theme that offered features like random posts, tabbed areas to reduce the space requirements and clear and concise category lists.
Theme: Elegant Themes
Customizations: Custom image for header, tabbed areas, edits to theme to allow editing posts and pages without the need to go to the dashboard first, edits to the CSS to change fonts and colors.
Ready to get started? Want me to give you a quote based on your current theme, customizations needed? Then drop me a line. Please be sure to include your current web address, theme of choice and a brief overview of the changes you want to make. Or, you can get started right away by selecting one of the pre-built options.
Includes: Installation and Configuration of the Wordpress theme of your choice and 2 hours of one on one customizations.
What My Customers Have To Say
“…We now get consistent subscribers and visitors..”
If you want a great looking, SEO blog that will get PR fast get a hold of Cenay. We have over 50 sites and growing and the ones that get consistent subscribers and visits are the ones we’ve had Cenay tweak or work with us on. She has all the answers about blogging and plugins. She’ll make it happen.
Carol Hansen
www.CitBitz.com
“What a great help and Mentor…”
What a great help and Mentor Cenay has been for me and many others. If you want true help and a person that knows there stuff….your at the right place!
A TOP Professional Internet – Savvy thinker, designer, builder and helper.
I highly recommend her as an online- marketing technician.
Sincerely yours,
Thomas Chandler
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10 Things You Should Do With Your Blog
about 4 months ago - 16 comments
Occasionally, you come across a concept so profound that just reading it is enough to shift your universe. Today, I read one. In fact, once I read it, I had an epiphany and just had to share it. It’s not mine… it’s not even close to anything I have written to date (but wish I More >
Fix The Wordpress Blank Page Error
about 8 months ago - 7 comments
So, has this happened to you? You install a new upgrade or plugin, and suddenly, various places within your dashboard no longer work? You happily click the Dashboard | Posts | Edit link to be greeted by a stark white and completely empty page.
I know. Me too.
And like you, I started Googling the answer, only to find there were dozens of “solutions” out there, and not one of them helped me. I will, for the sake of consolidating the answers into one convenient place, assemble those other solutions as well, but here is what worked for me.
Customize Tag Cloud Appearance To Help Visitors Find Your Content
about 1 year ago - 8 comments
I know you thought you’d never hear me say this, but a plugin isn’t always the best way to handle a small change in your Wordpress Theme. Especially since each plugin adds it’s own load time to the overall page load time. Fast = visitors stay longer.
Come on, we are a generation of short-attention spanned humans, struggling to assimilate the thousands of bits of information that flow like a river into our awareness. The longer a page takes to load, the less inclined we are to look at other content on a site. One slow page, especially the main page, and most folks will pack up their little red wagon and move on.
A Custom 404 Page : An Opportunity To Impress* Your Visitors
about 1 year ago - 29 comments
(* By impress, I mean engage, wow and help your visitors)
When something goes wrong on your site, your visitors will land on a 404 page, or to their way of thinking, the Twilight Zone.
Most standard Wordpress blogs come handily equipped with a 404 Page. The problem is it is absolutely worthless for helping your visitor get back on track.
There could be a variety of reasons they landed there:
SEO: Inbound Links Without Asking Or Spamming
about 1 year ago - 36 comments
You have started your Search Engine Optimization education and have learned that inbound links count as *votes* for your site when Google ranks you website. Come on, everyone knows this right?
So, how do you get those coveted inbound links?
You can surf for blogs in your niche that have a page rank, and contact them. You can then beg, borrow or wheedle a link from them. Good luck with that if you haven’t already established a relationship with them.
You can comment on their blog, on the posts that are most similar to the content you are posting. A good idea, but somewhat time consuming since it’s important when you comment, to add value to the conversation.
Or, you can use a built in …
Case Study: 200% Traffic Increase with Plugins
about 1 year ago - 13 comments
I have seen some pretty amazing results on some of my blogs as a result of some new plugins and a few SEO tweaks to the theme.
Being the anal-retentive, computer programmer geeky Virgo that I am, I want to know if it’s a fluke, or if the results are duplicatable. That’s just the way More >
Upgrading to Wordpress 2.7
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
For those of you have followed my directions on a few of the plugins like Ohz Admin Panel or some of the commenting plugins, this upgrade will require a bit of extra work for you.
The new Wordpress contains some of these same features built right in. If you have also installed
Testing the New Flock Auto-Blogging Feature
about 1 year ago - No comments
If you haven’t yet found it, Flock is the blogger of choice for Social Butterflies. It has a lot of built in features that make your social life a little easier to manage.
So, this post came from Flock, without logging into my blog via Wordpress. (I think that is a pretty cool feature myself).
Cool, huh?
Blogged More >
about 7 months ago
What a great help and Mentor Cenay has been for me and many others. If you want ture help and a person that knows there stuff….your at the right place!
A TOP Professional Internet – Savvy thinker, designer, builder and helper.
I highly recommend her as an online- marketing technician.
Sincerely yours,
Thomas Chandler
about 7 months ago
If you want a great looking, SEO blog that will get PR fast get a hold of Cenay. We have over 50 sites and growing and the ones that get consistent subscribers and visits are the ones we’ve had Cenay tweak or work with us on. She has all the answers about blogging and plugins. She’ll make it happen.
Carol Hansen