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Case Study: Miracon Web Design

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My introduction to Catalyst began when I started in Affiliate Marketing.

Apart from building a few WYSIWYG websites for friends, I had no knowledge whatsoever in web design or WordPress.

The affiliate marketing course I was following suggested using Catalyst for my sites.

At the time I was using a stripped down version of Catalyst that was supplied through the course and I began the process of creating my ugly (and I mean UGLY!) affiliate websites.

The goal was to build quick, not pretty.

While I quickly learned I sucked at keyword research and getting my sites to actually convert, I also realized how much I simply loved building the websites.

Thanks to Catalyst. Read more »

Home Page — Getting Started

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Home Pages.

The first thought for most people when they think of their website, much less build a website.

Before Catalyst and the Dynamik Child Theme, they were complicated.

Unless you wanted to use the standard Blog Home Page.

Which I didn’t.

Now using the EZ Home Setup is super simple but when you are just getting started, a little assistance can get you off and running on the right foot. So I have put together three home page layouts on this page. I included a screenshot of the home page and you can download the file to import into Dynamik Options –> Import/Export.

Please keep in mind, these import files are strictly the EZ Home Layouts to get you up and running a little quicker. Read more »

How the Catalyst theme enabled me

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panning-the-globeSomeone with zero tech knowhow – to design and build my blog quickly, easily, and exactly the way I wanted it:

This past June I decide to pursue a lifelong dream of starting a food business.

I had always thought of writing a cookbook or opening a restaurant.

Then one day it dawned on me that a blog would be the perfect way to fulfill my entrepreneurial food dreams.

The problem was, I knew nothing about building a website.

It didn’t take me long to find out about WordPress.

The pitch was encouraging: “…there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine.” Read more »

Community Thanks and 3 Winners

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Thank you so much to all the community members for taking the time to share your honest and open feedback on getting started with Catalyst and then using Catalyst going forward to build a website!

Thank You

We received close to 55 submitted surveys, with the vast majority of those surveys offering very in depth and complete feedback on getting started with catalyst and then using catalyst to build a website(s). Read more »

From Idea to Website With Catalyst

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Often a client presents a very specific brief involving a pre-existing design from another theme or site that they would like their own design based on: ‘I want my site just like xyz theme, but with a double right sidebar, an area up the top for my banner ads, and make the homepage display fixed content AND 5 recent posts from our most popular category’.

And although this may sound like hard work, it’s far better to have a client that can tell you exactly what they want than one that has no idea. Read more »