I have a perfect example of this to share with you via my friend, Patsi Krakoff. She asked me to create a new header for her site. Here it is, as it was:

She had had lovely new pictures of herself taken and wanted to use one of them. So, she sent me her favorites and gave me a few wording changes and turned me loose. (Love that, btw. It’s great, as a creative person, to be given a short list of “must haves” and then be turned loose to let my creative juices flow! Thank you, Patsi, for that freedom!)

So, I created a few variations for her to choose from. She chose her favorite (which also happened to be mine – yay! Love it when that happens!) and gave me a couple of minor tweaks she’d like to see made.

One of those tweaks was to lose the lime green used on the line containing her name, but she wasn’t sure what she wanted to use instead. I suggested we pull in the blue that her site was using for post titles. I told her if she also changed the background of her site to the blue, she’d have a whole new lookin’ site on her hands.

So, that’s what we did:

Beautiful! Amazing what a new header and one color change can do for a site, eh?!

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Light gray is the default background, and now available are medium and dark gray, blue (light, medium and dark) and green (light, medium and dark.)

Have you created your sales page/email squeeze page/affiliate product landing page yet? No need to change themes or hire me – check out what Deborah has to say about WP Sales Page:

I SO love this product I feel compelled to write a testimonial. I am truly not skilled by any stretch of the imagination in anything remotely computer-esque. And beyond that I’m mostly afraid that one wrong move or mouse click and my website will turn into a chaotic mess of unreadable words or disappear altogether. So my confidence level about being able to do it myself wasn’t high.

But I did need to put up a sales page and do it quickly, and in one of those lovely moments of synchronicities, announcement of the WP Sales Page product arrived that very day. I took a chance and I’m really happy I did.

It is so easy to use, with instructions that are clear, complete, and totally understandable. The beauty of it is that there are examples of what things will look like; you choose what you’d like, and then simply copy and paste the HTML code. Everything I needed to put up a sales page was included. I was absolutely able to do it myself, in a very short time, without any help, with no frustration, tears, or hair-pulling. None! I can’t tell you how delighted I am. I’m absolutely recommending this to everyone I know.

Deborah Weber
Feel Good Energy Shift

Get your copy of WP Sales Page today!

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What was my bright idea? To figure out a way to create “traditional-looking” sales pages in my WordPress site. I thought it would be a piece of cake, but alas…I was wrong. Really wrong.

Now, you all know how I love WordPress. But those dang sidebars and headers and footers and other “distractions” were giving me fits. In some themes, I was easily able to remove the sidebars, other themes, not so much. In none of them was I able to get rid of the header and the footer without seriously messing things up.

All throughout this time, I was constantly Googling for solutions. I found themes that were built specifically to create sales and landing pages, but some were too bloggy looking for me, and others were…well…sorry, but they were just butt-ugly.

Besides, I like the theme I’m using and want to keep it. I didn’t want to have to change themes because then what would become of the rest of my content on my site? I didn’t want EVERY page to have a sales page format – just a couple here and there.

Then, I found FlexSqueeze, a theme with 5 built-in squeeze page templates. It’s a great theme, and I really like it. But I don’t want to build every theme I build for the rest of my life in FlexSqueeze, no matter how flexible and customizable it is.

Then, just before WordPress Summer Camp started, I found another solution…more of a hack, really. It worked, but the pages weren’t editable within the WordPress page editor, so that was only a partial solution.

Fast forward to last week. I woke up two mornings in a row vaguely aware that I’d been dreaming about sales pages in WordPress. I laughed because that used to happen to me all the time when I was a programmer in that other life I had. (I swear I wrote as many programs in my sleep as I did awake!)

Friday morning, I decided enough was enough. I was going to figure out the solution to my problem – period. Another hour of Google and a couple hours poking around in the WordPress Codex and I had it!

WP Sales Page was born! It’s not a theme and it’s not a plugin. It’s a page template with its very own CSS style sheet (which is how it can look so different than the theme that is installed at the site.) It works with any theme and is completely self-contained. You just upload two files and one folder to your active theme directory and you’re in business!

I tried it out on a few of my own pages and because it worked so well, I decided to make it my very first product so others could benefit, too. Saturday was spent creating the bonus graphics and code examples included in the package, and Sunday I built the website for it and wrote the documentation. Monday morning, I had my first sales.

WP Sales Page might be just the ticket for you, too. Check it out!

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