How to Edit an Image….
- On the left admin menu, Click on Products.
- Locate the image that needs to be changed and click on it.
- Locate the “Edit Image” button below the image on the Attachment Details screen and click it.
- If you mouse over the buttons over the image, a tooltip will tell you which button does what. From left to right, they are: Crop, Rotate Counter-Clockwise, Rotate Clockwise, Flip Vertically, Flip Horizontally, Undo and Redo.
- At the top right, you can adjust the scale of the image by typing in a number. It will keep the image dimensions as you change one image, because it is just scaling it down.
- The current thumbnail image is shown here.
- You must remember to make sure that you have selected the correct radio option for what you want your changes applied to. Default is all image sizes, but you can change just the image or just the thumbnail if you prefer.
- Don’t forget to save your changes afterwards. Some save automatically, but not all of them.
How to work the To-Do List…
If the slideshow is going too fast for you, you can pause it and advance through the tutorial manually using the slideshow buttons.
- At the top menu, click on To-Do List.
- Click on the “Add New Item” Link
- Set the priority as “Important”, “Normal” or “Low” depending on how urgent the task is.
- Click in the Deadline box and then select the date you want the task to be completed by, or you can leave it blank.
- Click in the “Assign To” box to select a User from the dropdown list.
- Fill in the description of the task so that the person it is assigned to knows what they are supposed to do.
- Click Submit To-Do Item to save the item.
- If you need to edit an item, you can click Edit for that item on the main list.
- Selecting the check box next to a list item marks it as completed.
September 2013
- Together
- My name begins with…
- Lines
- Alone
August 2013
- Something that starts with “N”
- Incomplete
- Skyline
- Fresh
- Early
- This means a lot to me
- A sign
- Peek-a-boo
- 2 o’clock
- Beverages
- I love doing this
- Macro
- Fast
- Trash
- The Best
- Cooking
- Exercise
- Someone you spoke to today
- Lost
- Stairs
- Slow
- A room
- Yellow
- In the background…
- Culture
- Entrance
- 10 minutes from home
- Corridor
- Lucky
- Cluttered
- Dangerous
July 2013
- Perception
- Friendship
- Workspace
Ongoing projects
If you’re not used to working on websites a lot, you may not realize just how much work can go into creating them. Right now we have several projects that we’re working on… and, at the moment, it’s a one-woman show. That means man (or in this case, woman) hours are limited as to what can be accomplished. Sure, there are tools that can help with some tasks…. but more often than not, those tools cost more than I’m comfortable spending. There’s also the issue of finding just the right tools for each task.
Shopping carts are a prime example of this particular issue. Right now we have several stores under construction under our Lake Travis Gifts name. I’ve tried several different shopping carts and shopping cart plugins. Not all of them are easy to understand or figure out, but finding ones I can work with takes most of the initial set-up time. Then we have the issue of adding products. This can be an absolute NIGHTMARE of a task, let me tell you. I’ve seen tools that were reasonably priced to help get this task accomplished, but there are none I’ve found so far that will do exactly what I want them to do. This leaves me with the task of making something that will do this myself. Another daunting task, but also another work in progress. There are times when I get stuck on the coding and have to wait for my coding genius husband to have time to give me a hand. Not like he doesn’t have his own work to do, right? Right.
Here’s how we’re going… a sort of time-line, if you will…
Lake Travis Gifts sells merchandise on eBay. We have it on a website of it’s own that’s fully populated with product plus we have the Facebook page set up. Updating product inventory is a little tricky, but not impossible.
Now I have the Electronics store that’s at the data entry stage… yeah, my favorite step, can’t you tell? The Electronics store is using WP-Online Store, which is based on OSCommerce. Found a way to get products uploaded, but now I have to go in and manually add pictures and make little corrections to things that aren’t correct.
Hill Country Gardens looks beautiful, I think. We talk about the things we’re doing in our own garden and I decided to try the WooCommerce plugin for that store. A few glitches with the code that have now been worked out and we’re at the data entry stage again. (Did I mention already that it really, REALLY is my favorite part? NOT!) The store plug-in is free, but any add-ons cost money. They do have a nice bundle package, but there’s nothing in that bundle that I’m interested in at that point… so no thanks, guys!
Ree’s Moongrove is the jewelry store. It’s named for my mom (her online name) and is a topic that both of us are interested in. She makes beads and chainmaille when circumstances allow and I make jewelry as well. It’s a fun site to work on, but I haven’t determined how to set up the store for it yet. I think I’ll work on building up the content for it first, then (after the other stores are populated) I’ll worry about that part.
The 409th ASA website is up and running. Stats look good for it already, although I have to admit that the old site is helping tremendously with that. People are signing up for the site and we’ve already had an update request come through for a vet whose whereabouts were previously unknown. They aren’t used to having a forum yet, but I’m sure that will start picking up in time.
This site… well, with everything else I’ve been doing, this one has taken a seat on a back burner. That’s probably not a good thing, since this is the main business website. I made the templates for five of the six websites mentioned in this post as well as some others. I plan on putting in a template section here with paid and free templates for people to download. Since I won’t really have a store on here, I decided to use iSell… I just don’t have anything on here for sale other than the hosting and web design yet.
Anybody know someone with decent computer skills who might be interested in doing some data entry??