Welcome to our online Do-It-Yourself Video Training Platform

Compliments International utilizes about 20% of the most powerful content management system in the world, WordPress which sits on the backbone of one of the largest open sources database management systems, MySQL.   Compliments team represents very skilled engineers and coders, verses many other web design firms that have designers (photoshop, css, and html experts).  This provides our clients with a much more scalable web platform, advanced coding experts and the ability to have your website grow with your business, NOT be limited to an out of the box solution or template.

Your have an entire web system, not just a website.  Over time, with the 3 different training platforms Compliments provides (live webinars, classroom style training and this new online do-it-yourself training program), you will learn just how powerful your web system is for marketing, communication and for operations and logistics supporting your business, organization or personal site.  It is broken into 8 layers:

1. The Database: MySQL

2. Business Logic: PHP, Java Script, XHTML, AJax

3. Content Management System: Word Press – Used for easy content management by the client

4. Additional Business Logic: JQuery, Java, HTML, etc.

5. Widgets: Written by Compliments or third party developers

6. Presentation Layer: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets – or – global style sheets) – This is the front end design

7. Graphics: Images designed by a graphics designer

8. Content: Provided by the client

The entire structure of our websites, provides:

• Flexability
• Scalability
• Integration
• Optimization

The Tutorials below are prepared to provide you with an easy to understand library of online training tools specifically covering how to utilize your content management system, supporting your website and blog.  This is a convenient way for you to learn independently.  We do however recommend that you attend our monthly online webinar trainings and our weekly classroom style workshops for strategy, marketing, seo and additional tips and tricks for building your business utilizing your new website, blog and marketing system.

Register for Training (#5 of your 10 step process)

Location of In Person / Classroom Style Workshops:  Http://www.meetup.com/businessblitz

Location of Web Conferencing Trainings:  Http://www.meetup.com/businessdevelopment

We hope that you take time to review the video tutorials below so you can start utilizing your website right away!!!

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How-To Building The Ultimate Website Content Map, Part One

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How-To The dashboard – introduction

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How-To Adding Static pages

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How-To Scalable WordPress Navigation Using Sort Order

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How-To Writing and publishing a post

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How-To Saving and returning to draft posts & pages

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How-To Rearranging the post editor to suit your style

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How-To Publishing your post at a later date

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How-To Setting your posts – or entire blog – to private

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How-To Using Quick Edit and Bulk Edit to manage your posts in half the time

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How-To Adding categories and tags to your posts

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How-To Embedding photos, video & audio into your posts

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How-To Getting a post out quickly with QuickPress

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How-To Embedding YouTube videos into your posts

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How-To Embedding photos, video & audio into your posts

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How-To Adding & managing categories after the fact

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How-To Adding and deleting categories

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How-To Adding a new link to your sidebar

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How-To Arranging links into categories

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How-To Editing your existing list of links

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How-To Creating a post excerpt & using the “more” tag

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How-To Getting Started With Google Analytics – Simply add your Google analytics code to your client profile form and your Compliments project manager will install it for you.

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