Pricing tables play an important role for every company that offers products or services. They are a challenge from both a design and usability standpoint. They must be simple but at the same time clearly differentiate between features and prices of different products and services.
Creating and styling pricing tables can be a challenge if you’re not very handy with HTML and CSS. Easy Pricing Table is a new free plugin that aims to make it simple for anyone to set up a visually compelling pricing table. The default design is a flat style with colors that can be set via a user-friendly colorpicker in the admin.
If you can’t create pricing table with coding, Easy Pricing Tables come with a great functional value and completely delivers what it promises, a high value plug-in made to enhance user experience on WordPress website and creatively present information of interest. The tool is very easy to use as we have discussed and has some really amazing user or online support.
Easing Pricing Table has a settings panel where you can easily customize the appearance of the table as well as each individual column. You’ll have the option to set the title, price, features, duration, button text, URL, column color and order.
Tables can be displayed using the auto-generated shortcode or via a widget. The plugin allows you to create multiple pricing tables and maintain separate customization settings for each. Be advised that if the pricing tables don’t match the demo exactly, it’s likely because they are designed to take on some of the characteristics of your theme, ie. typography, headline styles, etc. You can further customize this via CSS if necessary.
I was impressed by how easy this plugin is to use. Many other pricing table plugins also use shortcodes, but they often require you to manually input all the information as attributes. This becomes messy and difficult to visualize. However, this plugin does an excellent job of providing an interface that allows you to quickly create, customize, and visualize the columns of your pricing table.
Easy Pricing Table is one of the fastest ways to create a beautiful pricing table without having to touch any code. If you’re using a theme with a flat style design, then this plugin should drop in nicely.
Despite the brilliance of your occasional tweets, somehow the world isn’t beating a path to your blog or website. What are others doing that you are not?
(Note: Wherever I say ‘blog’ in this article I’m including regular websites too as the strategies are the same.)
The question above is one I posed to myself some time ago, which led me to do some research and change my Twitter ways. You will be the lucky recipients of that research without having to do the work.
First you should know there are many strategies for building traffic on Twitter and your blog and many of them are circular; i.e. building a highly sought after blog will make your Twitter tweets more sought after and creating better tweets promoting your blog will send more traffic to your blog. It’s a win-win for the blog and Twitter and a big win for you.
There were almost as many strategies as there are experts but some are agreed on by pretty well everyone. Here are the ones I found to have the most ‘votes’. I’ve listed them in the order I think works best for an individuals’ blog.
1. Be active on Twitter
Use your first and last 15 minutes of each day to tweet, follow, and respond to your followers. Be tweeting before most people in your target audience have gone to work and again after they’ve returned home. Also, I live in the same time zone as my target audience so the beginning and end of my day fits in with their day too. However, if your target market lives in a different time zone, you need to make your time on Twitter suit your audience’s day. There’s a handy program called Tweet When that can help you with that.
2. Create an engaging Biography.
People like to interact with people, even when they’re ‘interacting’ electronically over great distances. Be sure you have a great Avatar, preferably a photo of you. If you’d rather not use your own face, use an image that says something about you. Just be sure whatever your Avatar is, it looks professional. If it’s a photo of you, make your face the focus. Keep in mind, this is the first way your readers, and hopefully soon-to-be followers, know anything about you. It’s that first impression that everyone remembers.
3. Include images
Twitter has moved on from being a text-only medium and you need to as well. Stunning, quirky, emotion-laden images are the most re-tweeted items out there and will bring lots of traffic to your blog to see and read more. This is particularly true for travel blogs where the scenery is often what draws people to visit.
4. Keep your Tweets shorter than the 140 characters
Short tweets allow re-tweeters to add their thoughts to yours and. surveys show that short tweets are much more likely to get re-tweeted.
5. While we’re talking about re-tweeting, don’t be shy – ask for one
Don’t ask every time, of course, but when you have something you feel is worth a wider audience, ask your followers for a re-tweet, known as an RT. It may not be what your mom taught you but in the Twitter verse you’ll find asking gets you way more ‘shares’. Become a re-tweeter yourself, particularly when you see your own blog mentioned.
6. Use quotes often, either from your own blog or from another source, such as
A famous person, book or movie.
Choose something wise, provocative, intriguing or interestingly controversial — just not something ugly or obnoxious.
7. Questions, like quotes, are a good way to spark interest
I once heard questions described as the spark plugs of conversation — and they are. One of the things we’ve learned from the Internet world is that people enjoy even the silliest of surveys so use that to your advantage. As with all things web traffic related, keep your questions focused on your blog’s subject or niche.
8. Add #Hash tags and @mentions to your posts
These Twitter features help spread the word. Hash tags are a way of creating a discussion theme. Just put a word or two behind a # symbol and people can take part in a discussion knowing they’re talking around the same subject. A @ mention allows you to include a Twitter user’s address, which is useful and flattering for directly tweeting to specific people.
9. Be sure to tweet about any contest happening on your blog.
Contests are a great way to get traffic to a blog and Twitter is a great way to advertise them. People love this kind of light-hearted engagement with sites. Be sure to mention your Twitter feed on your blog and anywhere else it makes sense, business cards, for example.
10. While we’re talking blogs, develop your Twitter niche to complement your blog’s theme.
This is easy if you’ve a travel-related blog but it still needs to be done even if your blog is less physically focused. Whatever your blog is about, Do your best to get emotions into your posts and tweets. Think of the things that have ‘gone viral’ these past years – funny cats are a good example. Here again, images are often the quickest way to capture the moment. Search Pinterest for pictures that tell the story.
Adding your YouTube videos in DotNetNuke 7 is easily accomplished with the DotNetNuke Media Module. The Media Module actually provides two methods to embed videos from YouTube. One method uses the published embed code which is Javascript based. The second method, and the one we will cover in this article, uses Embed along with the YouTube video URL.
To add YouTube videos to your DotNetNuke site with embed YouTube URL is an easy 3 step process. In general, you do the following:
Find video and get the YouTube embed code
Add a new HTML text control module or add an entry to an existing blog
Paste the embed code into the html view of the editor
Now, we’ll step through these 3 steps in a little more detail. Search for and find a video that you want to include in your blog. Click on the embed code button as shown in the below screenshot. Select the appropriate sizes and color for your site, and then highlight and copy the text in the text area labeled 2.
You can now take this embed code and add it to either a new blog entry ro a new HTML/Text module you have dropped on a page. I chose to add it to a new blog entry on a site of mine that uses the SunBlogNuke blogging module, so that is what I will show you below. As you can see below, I have selected the HTML view of the editor. You want to be sure it is in this view or when you paste the embed code, it won’t work. Now paste the embed code into the editor. At this point, you can change back to design mode and edit the entry.
Now you can go in and add your tags, excerpt, and other blog settings. Leave me a comment if you have any questions on this.
