Tutorials

Silicon Dales provide consultancy and management to clients in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world.

In this category we share knowledge of open source and other systems, in the form of tutorials and how-to guides. The list of subcategories below provides more specific areas of interest, or you can dive straight in to see the most recently updated items in the list below that.

Take a tutorial, and add a comment. If you like something you see, or you found it useful, share a link to it on social media or your business website or personal blog.

Our guides are one way we, at Silicon Dales, contribute to open source from our years of working in the wild on business applications for exactly this software.

Sharing information is how we learn and how we grow as developers and as human beings.

Subcategories

Because we post a lot of tutorials, about the subjects we are specialist in, we have the following subcategories, which may be more helpful for you to dive in to:

Android – tutorials about using your Android smartphone. Most often, this is related to accessing email (we’re Google Workspace resellers) or using your WP / WooCommerce site on Android.
AWS EC2– this is a bit technical. We’re AWS Consulting Partners, and we provide some tutorials for using their cloud instances.
Conversion – there’s no point getting traffic unless you can convert those visitors into paying customers or subscribing readers. Increase your bottom line with these tips and tricks.
Google Workspace – guides to help you make the most of your Google Cloud Google Workspace services.
iPhone – guides, like our Android tutorials, which aim to help you using iPhones to do specific things.
Linux – specialist tutorials for the ever popular software.
Magento – we’re eCommerce experts, so we are able to provide some guides on using Magento Community Edition.
MailChimp – probably the best known and most popular mailing list technology, we provide some guidance on integrating this with your WordPress / Google Workspace systems.
MySQL – often we get into database structure and queries. If we feel it may be useful, we post a tutorial here.
Plesk – one of the most popular and successful panels, Plesk is increasingly offering enriched WordPress support, so we offer support to those who use Plesk, too.
SEO – want to Search Engine Optimize your site, then this is a nice place to get started.
Shopify – get tips for developing and managing your eCommerce store via one of the fastest growing platforms around.
Stripe – a great payments service.
WooCommerce – we are accredited WooExpert developers. We write a lot of tutorials on this, the web’s most widely used eCommerce platform.
WordPress – powering 30% of the web, WP is the dominant CMS on the planet. If you need help, we’re right here, including with our free to access tutorials.

Below you can find tutorials we’ve posted, in date order, with the most recently added or updated items nearest to the top.

What is an Affiliate Program & How Do I Get Started?

When we first started making websites, quite a long time ago, one of the things we began doing quite early in order to make additional revenue from websites was to sign up with a few Affiliate Networks and begin promoting a number of merchants, through their affiliate programs. A number of new and existing clients …

Using Clickfunnels For Local Businesses – Case Study Plus FREE Clickfunnel Template

Marketing funnels have been a part of successful businesses for 100’s of years. The concept is certainly not new. Almost everyday of your life your are unknowingly part of 100’s of marketing funnels. If you frequent supermarkets to purchase your families groceries you enter a funnel every time you set foot in the store. Products are strategically placed in certain parts of the store to give them every chance of being purchased. It’s no coincidence that the children’s lollies and chocolates are placed at the checkout counter. You could consider these an up-sell in your shopping experience.

ClickFunnels Pricing | 2019 Pricing Table For Clickfunnels Digital Marketing Platform

ClickFunnels has taken the online marketing world by storm and in a few short years has generated over $100 million in revenue and over $1 billion in revenue for its platform users. The concept is simple – build a marketing funnel online, easily, and quickly. Marketing funnels have been around since commerce started, but not till ClickFunnels has it been so easy to create, build and launch a marketing funnel that has all the features to convert customers into sales.

How to use local schema structured data to improve exposure & search rankings

One of the strategies that has really become important for our clients is the ability to add reviews to their website (and by extension star ratings), that show up in the search result listings. They way we achieve this is by using Schema. Using schema markup code has a number of benefits, and having star …

Leveraging your existing eCommerce customers using ManyChat and your email list

Chat bots have taken off in the last 6 months, and they are now playing a very important role in the marketing strategies of smart digital marketers. Running an eCommerce store can get very complicated and time consuming, especially when you are scaling quickly. You need tools and strategies that allow you to automate processes, …

How to integrate ActiveCampaign with Shopify for email marketing | ActiveCampaign review

For any eCommerce store, it imperative that you ensure all your sales channels are setup and working correctly. We generally find that when we first look at a client’s store, they are generally doing some things really well, and others not very well, or not at all.

Can you rank a website with just traffic?

If you’re in any SEO groups around the web, there has been chatter recently about ranking websites with just traffic. For years we’ve all been on about quality content and links. This has always made sense. If you build a website that has quality content, and then carefully build relevant and high quality backlinks, all …

Location of functions.php in WordPress

This question was asked of us recently, after a tutorial we posted, so I’m putting this out there in case anyone else wants to know this – and also so that I can link this up in future WordPress tutorials too. Where is functions.php in WordPress? When developers talk about “adding this code to your …

Twitter Header Photo Size

This is a new addition, as our old post on Twitter header image dimensions has since gone out of date! The new (current, correct as of summer 2014) Twitter header imzge size you should be using for the new look Twitter profile pages is as follows: 1500px x 500px If you create your image that …

Escrow Clarification – IES Reviews Terms?

If you’re buying or selling a website or domain (primarily, this advice is offered for domain / website sellers, as these are the people who will be interested in the definition of the phrase “IES Reviews Terms”) and the money is being transferred by the US escrow service, Escrow.com, you might be wondering what the …