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Sidebars or columns? Which to choose and when?a

Columns vs. Sidebar

You’d like some elements on this side of the page and some on another. Columns or sidebar? Let’s have a look. Let’s take the About page. You have the photo and some basic bio content on the left, but on the right, you’d like, say, contact information. Great. So, do you use a column layout […]

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It's easier than you'd ever imagine ... well, if you're using Canvas.

Using the “Transparent” Color

Did you want that primary navigation to have a transparent background? Easy peasie. Still struggling with trying to match the background color of the element that you really want hidden with the color of the element behind it? Your days of agony are over. See the background color of the navigation on top of the […]

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Flexible, powerful, supported, upgraded ... can your theme say all of that?

How to Choose a WordPress Theme

Struggling through the forest of WordPress themes? Grab your bug spray and follow me. There are an overwhelming number of WordPress themes out there in the wild (144,000,000 results on Google). How do you know which ones are good? Reliable? Which theme companies will be around in a year? 3 years? How often do they […]

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24 minutes to build a site? Just watch.

WOO Canvas Website in 24 Minutes

A site built and designed in 24 minutes? From empty to full-width image header, navigation design, custom Google fonts galore, shortcode buttons, 1/3 and 2/3 columns, info boxes, a call to action, even a drop cap. Crazy, I know. Get your popcorn. This site is built before your eyes. Will it win awards? No. Is […]

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Lots of options for placement and scrolling for the background image.

Change the background image in WOO Canvas

Not only can you change the image, but you have some options for placement, scrolling, etc. With WOO Canvas, it’s easy to change the background image of your site. If you have a large, “single” image that you don’t want to repeat, just check the settings. Or maybe you have an image that’s supposed to […]

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There are actually two footer areas in WOO Canvas: the footer and the footer widget areas.

WOO Canvas Footer

This post might also be called WOO Canvas Footers as there are two footer areas in Canvas. Once you understand the difference between the regular footer and the footer widget area, you’ll have a better time figuring out how they work–and how they can work for you. It may seem confusing that there are two footers, […]

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