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    Build Your Custom GPT A Step-by-Step Guide

    What if a virtual team-member could draft job descriptions, generate website FAQs for customers questions, and write product copy in your brand voice before you’ve finished your morning coffee? Five years ago that sounded like sci-fi reserved for tech giants. Today it’s a browser tab away – and it doesn’t ask for superannuation. A Custom…

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  • Using our free stock images

    Using our free stock images

    Having recently moved our free stock images to a new license system to allow folk to use our images commercially in printed material. We still wanted to offer users the ability to use our image for free. Introducing Exchange a free license for our stock images All the images available on Duelling Pixels Photos can be…

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    Adding a shop menu on a Genesis themed website

    Two menus by default are built into most WordPress themes built with the Genesis framework, these are the primary and secondary menus. Generally these menus are great to use when building an e-commerce store, but sometimes there can be a little confusion for the website administrator on which menu to use for each store menu item…

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  • How to select a plugin from WordPress.org

    How to select a plugin from WordPress.org

    The WordPress plugin directory is one of the great benefits of WordPress for many people.  The hundreds and hundreds of plugins offer a wide variety of solutions for functionality and design for one’s WordPress install.  The options are almost endless and it truly shows the power of an mature open source community. For many this is also…

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  • Our Stock Photos are back!!

    After rebuilding our stock image library for the past two months, we are very excited to announce that our stock images are back. Hosting a free stock image library was fun and a great way to attract a new audience. Although we got many requests about using our images commercially in printed medium, that was…

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  • Adding charactor to your Author Page

    The default author page template within WordPress lists an author’s latest posts in a chronological list. We can use this page to build a awesome about page for your blog/website that displays information about yourself followed by your latest blog posts.  Using a child theme on the genesis framework the post will run through adjusting the…

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  • Minimal Sidebar – Our first free Genesis theme

    We are very excited to announce the Minimal Sidebar, the first of a series of free Genesis themes that we will be launching this year. Designed after Nick set himself the task last year of finding a better way to bring responsive behaviour to the individual widget areas in the sidebar. Minimal Sidebar breaks up…

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    Blogging? Are you making these mistakes too?

    1. Not blogging at all! (Whether you think you are above blogging, or you think it’s not your thing, or you can’t write.) Well, say you are going to a business conference this weekend, would you go there and not say anything at all? What if a conference participant (who could also be a potential…

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  • Goodbye Creative Platoon, hello Duelling Pixels

    After months of going to and fro in my mind, I have conceded that by branding all of my ideas under their own individual names, I was making our lives very complicated! Managing several web brands is hard work, there is the blogging, management of the websites and platform software, the communication to users, and…

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    4 Steps for a Successful Website Project – #4 Basic Tech Elements

    Basic Technical Elements Now that you’ve gone through the key planning processes, you should have a clearer idea of what your needs are. Next step is to decide on the technical nuts and bolts. DOMAIN NAME Got your business domain name purchased? Don’t leave this one until the last minute, in case someone beats you…

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    #3 Design & Functionality – Successful Website Project

    Website Design & Functionality Website design & functionality go together like a jigsaw puzzle. Ultimately a really successful website works when the pieces fit together like they were made for each other. To establish what pieces you’ll need to build your website, you do need to work out a few things upfront: Decide on the…

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