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Aug
20

We’re Okay, Our House is Not

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I have been staring at my computer screen for several minutes and I honestly don’t know where to start or what to say.

We are not at home right now.  Our house is flooded and just about everything in it is either damaged or will be damaged (by the humidity and mold).  This includes our two cars, which are currently under water. 

BUT

We are safe and our cats are safe. 

Some very wonderful friends called us this morning and asked if we needed sandbags.  I said, “Yes.” 

It became clear within about 30 minutes of this call that we would need to leave our home.  They kindly offered to let us stay with them. 

So, I now had about one hour to pack up whatever I wanted to save, get our cats in cat carriers, and pack clothes for us.  In addition to all that, we attempted to raise up whatever we could as high as we could. 

I never thought I would be faced with having to decide what is most important to me in a one hour period.  I sincerely hope no one reading this ever has to do this.

We left out house in a boat and are now safely at our friends house.  Tomorrow we might be able to go back to our house and see how bad it is, but since there were five inches of standing water when we left I have no idea what to expect.

Good thing I bought three gallons of milk yesterday!  At least Ned got to eat his wings.

Rochelle

Aug
20

It’s not looking good, folks

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Ok, so here’s the thing.  Water is getting in and the rain is still falling.  A friend is going to Lowes to get sand and sandbags, then he’s coming here.  The only way he will be able to deliver it is by bringing his boat and coming to one of our windows.

We are going to do the best we can to sandbag the house, then we are going to leave and go to our friends.

This is the last post I will be writing for I don’t know how long. 

To our family - we are all safe and healthy, and we will call when we get the chance.

I’ve got some great video to post when this is all over…  Let’s just say I actually have video of fish swimming in our back porch.

Rochelle

Jul
28

How to Add a WordPress Blog to Your Site

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There are two ways to setup a new WordPress (aka WP) blog: manually and automatically through cPanel. I will explain how to install WordPress using both methods, as there may be times when you want to do either.

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Jun
24

How to Move a Sidebar Menu From One Side of Your Site to the Other Side

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If you have a Build A Niche Store (BANS) that has a sidebar menu on one side of your store but you would rather have it on the other side, then keep reading. You may be surprised at how simple this is.

This will be easiest to achieve if you are using a template that has sidebars on both the left and right, so my instructions will be based on using this type of template.

There are some mods that are very easy to do, but not so easy to tell how to do. This is one of those mods. There are a few variables that will make writing these instructions challenging for me, but they are not a reflection of difficulty in your doing this mod. These instructions may look difficult but they really aren’t, especially after you have done it a few times.

1. You need to know where the menu you want to move is currently located:

  • If the menu you want to move is currently on the left side of your template, then it is located in the header.php.
  • If the menu you want to move is currently on the right side of your template, then it is located in the footer.php.

2. You need to know the name of the menu you want. The following are the default template names, but you may have renamed them. If you changed your names then look for whatever you named them, not the default terms:

  • Content pages menu = <h2>Site Navigation</h2>
  • Store pages menu = <h2>Store Navigation</h2>
  • Sponsored links menu = <h2>Sponsored Links</h2>
 

My instructions to move a sidebar menu from one side to the other:

Step One
  Determine if the menu you want to move (i.e. Store Pages menu or Content Pages menu) is currently located on the left or right side of your template. If the location is currently on the left, then you will go to the header.php after you log in to your Admin below. If the location is on the right, then you will go to the footer.php.
 
  • If the menu you want to move is currently on the left side of your template, then it is located in the header.php.
  • If the menu you want to move is currently on the right side of your template, then it is located in the footer.php.
   
  Log in to your site’s Admin and click on the ‘Template‘ tab and ‘header.php‘ or ‘footer.php‘ link, as determined above, for the template you are using.
   
  Save a copy of the original code (click here for instructions on how to do this).
Step Two
  Search for the menu you want to move. Copy and cut the code for that menu from the header.php or footer.php (this will remove the following codes from the the header or footer - if you simply copy but don’t cut the codes then they will be repeated on both sides of your template):
    For the Content pages menu copy and cut:
      <h2>Site Navigation</h2>
<ul>
<?=$front->pagenav();?>
</ul>
    For the Store pages menu copy and cut:
      <h2>Store Navigation</h2>
<ul>
<?=$front->pagenav();?>
</ul>
 
    For the Sponsored links menu copy and cut:
      <h2>Sponsored Links </h2>
<ul>
<?=$front->pagenav();?>
</ul>
   
  Save changes and view site for errors. You should not be able to see the menu you are in the process of moving. If you do see it, then you probably copied but didn’t cut the code.
Step Three
  Still in the ‘Templates‘ tab, click the location you want to move the menu to (if you removed the code from the header.php, then click the footer.php link, and vice versa).
   
  Save a copy of the original code (click here for instructions on how to do this).
   
  Search for the code that matches the file you are in and paste your copied code directly UNDER the appropriate code:
    For the header.php file search for:
      <div id=”sidebar”>
    For the footer.php file search for:
      <div id=”sidebarright”>
  Example: If you copied the Content pages menu code from header.php and paste it into footer.php, the code you see in footer.php will now look like this:
 

<div id=”sidebarright”>
<h2>Site Navigation</h2>
<ul>
<?=$front->pagenav();?>
</ul>

   
  Save changes and view site for errors. You should now be able to see the menu you moved.
.

See? The instructions look harder than this actually is.

Once you get the hang of this you can move other aspects of your menus. Would you rather have your sponsored links above your content pages? You can do that by moving the sponsored link code ABOVE the content pages code. And so on.

Rochelle