Introducing The Dynamik Website Builder For The Genesis Framework

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We’ve been developing WordPress Themes for over 3 years now and this is the third major contribution we’ve made to the WordPress community. The first was a Framework named Frugal, then we phased that out to introduce Catalyst, our premier Framework, and now we’ve developed the Dynamik Website Builder for the Genesis Framework.

Packed with Catalyst DNA, Dynamik for Genesis utilizes many of the powerful web design tools we’ve developed for Catalyst and its own version of Dynamik. From the hundreds of no-coding design options, to intuitive page structuring controls that allow you to create an unlimited number of Custom Widget and Content Areas to the fun and super useful Front-end CSS Builder, the Dynamik Website Builder is…well…awesome! 🙂 Read more “Introducing The Dynamik Website Builder For The Genesis Framework”

Integrate Facebook With Your Website

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Facebook UsersThree out of every two people on earth visit Facebook each day.

Thats only a mild exaggeration, the point is that many people use Facebook, so it just makes sense to have your website cozy up to Facebook.  This is separate from creating a Facebook Fan Page, like ours for Dynamik Website Builder, for your small business or non-profit organization.

Cozying your website up to Facebook involves possibly using Facebook Comments on your website, or allowing your website to automatically add your new articles/posts to your aforementioned Facebook Fan page, making it crazy easy for your visitors to share you and your content with everyone who can benefit from it. Read more “Integrate Facebook With Your Website”

Introducing the Custom CSS Builder

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CSS BuilderLast week’s Feature of the Week Post provided an introduction to the Dynamik Website Builder showing how easy it is to implement significant design and styling changes quickly and easily with it.

That particular post showed how changing the colour, width, shadow and shape of the Wrap Border around the site could be achieved with just a few clicks. Read more “Introducing the Custom CSS Builder”

How To Add Google Analytics To Your Site

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Lets begin by explaining what Google Analytics is and why you want it tracking your website visits etc.

Most importantly, Google Analytics helps you answer some important questions, such as:

  • How many visitors stop by your website each hour, day, week, month, and year.
  • Which page of your website they use to enter your website using (Landing Page)
  • How they found your website, be it social media link or searching for a phrase on Google
  • How long they stayed on your website
  • How many pages of your website they visited
  • What part of the world they came from.

This is all very useful information for getting the most from your website.  Long gone are the days of throwing a static website up to, get your name out there and hoping folks find you and that some of them even need what you have to offer. Read more “How To Add Google Analytics To Your Site”

Add an Affiliate Box to Your Website

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In this post, we’ll add an affiliate Box using the Extender Plugin for Genesis. Scroll to the bottom of this post, or any post on this website, to see the affiliate box in action.

If you haven’t already, be sure to sign up for the Genesis Extender Affiliate Program, so when you add this affiliate box to your website(s), you can make 40% ($17.60) when visitors click your affiliate link and then decides to buy the Extender Plugin for Genesis.

Once you are affiliated, it’s time to build the affiliate box, then put it where we want it to show up, and, finally, style the affiliate box to suit our taste and whichever Genesis Child Theme you are using. Read more “Add an Affiliate Box to Your Website”

Genesis Extender Front-End CSS Builder

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left-sidebarSome tips for getting the most out of the Front-End CSS Builder

The Front-End CSS Builder is comprised of the following parts:

  1. Horizontal Navigation bar across the top
  2. Left Hand Side Bar
  3. Staging Area for Custom CSS (Middle of left sidebar)
  4. Custom CSS (Bottom of left sidebar)

The Horizontal Navigation is comprised of links for the elements you may want to style and some common CSS additions, such as border’s, shadows, backgrounds, etc Read more “Genesis Extender Front-End CSS Builder”

Create a Custom Secondary Page

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Another post covered creating your custom home page, so this post will work through creating a custom secondary page, specifically a staff page.

Staff Page

The goal is to create this page without writing custom code, so anyone can set it up for their website regardless of skill level.  So we are going to use the Genesis User Widget to add the User Profiles in two columns on the Staff page. Read more “Create a Custom Secondary Page”

EZ Static Homepage In Just A Few Mouse Clicks

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There are many ways to create a “CMS Style” static homepage in WordPress, especially with Genesis Child Themes. Often times providing their own home.php file, these Child Themes offer the ability to just list your latest blog posts on your homepage or display Widget content in an organized fashion.

However there are many times when you’d like to either tweak the current static homepage functionality or completely customize your own. In such cases the Genesis Extender Plugin offers a powerful, yet super easy solution! Read more “EZ Static Homepage In Just A Few Mouse Clicks”